Inish Sofia Hedén Næss, known mononymously as Inish, is an artist and record label spirit at Spirals based in Bergen. For The Only Lasting Truth is Change, Inish will play techno, trance, intimate field recordings and text readings by protectors of LGBTQIA+ people. Inish will perform in honour of trans lives, empowering the community on the 20th November which marks…
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Rian Treanor leads a new group performance with materials collaboratively developed during a workshop, exploring new forms of sound synthesis, algorithmic pattern making and collaborative live performance. For the symposium, Rian Treanor convened a new workshop developed for and with people with neurological variations. The workshop was an extension of the project Inter-symmetric Works, exploring new forms of remote participation…
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Jenny Berger Myhre presents a live performance and a listening session with sounds from her collection: field recordings, computer-generated sequences and cassette tapes as well as her modular synthesizer. As a performer, Berger Myhre strives to make a space for shared listening, removing the expectations of virtuous musical gestures by focusing on the sounds and the mental images they produce…
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Taking the fragmented voice as a starting point, the technologically mediated performance “Yep, that’s the mood.” delves into the texture, materiality, and quality of the voice when pitted against the more rigid structures of text-based language. Combining rewritten, re-ordered and recomposed texts sourced from a variety of origins both online and offline, the performance follows traditions of sound poetry and…
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As part of the symposium, the art collective Tenthaus will serve a Playful Meal – a dinner of soup, salad, bread and collective games. Nourishment and digestion are natural processes which bodies carry out to exist and thrive. Cultural organisations are extended bodies composed by several individuals contributing to the same purpose. The dinner will involve games that challenge participants…
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Multidisciplinary artist Mark Fell and philosopher Robin Mackay discuss the relationship between practice and theory and examine beliefs about creative practices: for example, relationships between creativity and technology, approaches to collaboration, concerns with authorship and agency; as well as ideas about inspiration, expression and communication of meaning as the fundamental principles of creative production. How do such beliefs not only…
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An online lecture. Care extends far beyond the push toward capital, the mimetic, and reason. Many algorithmic technologies are rooted in methods that limit and cajole (data) information from the first human and computational assumptions. We assess ourselves using false dichotomies that force inadequate choices building a world bereft of complexity and nuance. The disclinations of our systems to cope…
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Sara Eliassen presents a new chapter in a hybrid live essay film. The chapter has a variety of titles: Screened Visions/National Visions, Mediating Uncertainties, Images- and Talking Back to Them, or acting back to them, re-acting to them, affected by them, re-affecting them. Back and forth, as a feedback loop. Do I Accept that the Future is Looped? The title…
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Signe Lidén has developed Circumference, an audio-recording instrument created to be shared between artists. Since October, the instrument has been included in BEK´s library of equipment, available for use by other artists. Playing her own and others’ recordings made with the instrument, Lidén reflects upon the experiences of sharing and artistic co-authorship. From this starting point, she discusses how a…
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Artist Jackie Karuti speaks about How Clouds Are Formed — a developing body of work assembled in many parts and across different locations — and reflects on collective exploratory work of building weather instruments across Bergen, Nairobi and Berlin. How Clouds are Formed, site specific installation, 2021 Electric motor, installed objects & video. On display at Aerial 14–21 November 2021. …
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