Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

Detailed programme for BEKs symposium The Only Lasting Truth is Change 2025.

In the run up to BEKs symposium The Only Lasting Truth is Change: Voice, Seed, Brutality. Russell Haswell will host a 2 day workshop that will culminate in a live collective diffusion on the final day of the symposium 23. November. 

Welcome to this workshop during BEKs symposium The Only Lasting Truth is Change: Voice, Seed, Brutality. 

In this performative lecture and writing lab, Carol Stampone moves between philosophy and poetry to explore how we inhabit time, exhaustion, and change. Guided by Octavia Butler, Fanny Söderbäck, and Byung-Chul Han, she invites participants to think and feel together through a series of open questions on obsession, burnout, and the rhythms of revolutionary time.

Artist and researcher Lesia Vasylchenko explores how time, technology, and trauma intertwine in her ongoing investigation of Chronesthetic Wounds. Through her lens, the traces of war, ecological collapse, and data-driven perception become temporal scars, evidence of how the planet and its systems sense and store memory. In this artist talk, Vasylchenko will present recent works and reflections on the sensing of time as both a human and technological condition.

Mihkkal Hætta is a filmmaker exploring the landscapes, stories, and traditions of Sápmi. Through two short films and an artist presentation, he invites the audience to experience the deep connection between land, culture, and memory within Sámi storytelling traditions.