Do you remember when you last heard a new musical genre for the first time, or a completely new auditory universe, or a surprising combination of sounds you did not expect to fit together? With BEK Studio Sessions, we aim to cultivate this moment. For this version, Peder Niilas Tårnesvik and Elina Waage Mikalsen will be working together in BEK´s…
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As part of the symposium “The Only Lasting Truth is Change”, Lars Holdhus has been running a workshop on Awne, stretching over five sessions in September–November. On 27 October at 18:00 CET we invite you to a live session in Bergen Kjøtt, mapping out contemporary theories about ecology, and discussing foraging, fermentation, sustainable food diets, preservation and their social and…
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On Saturday 25 September from 12 to 17, join us at BEK to experience fragments of a work in progress: “Empty is also Full” by Audrey Hurd, our artist in studio residency. The event is part of B-open 2021. “I’m curious about vases, these little void holders. They are all surface, but also all space. And each space vibrates with…
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As part of the symposium “The Only Lasting Truth is Change”, Signe Lidén has developed Circumference, an audio recording instrument created to be shared between artists. In October and November, the instrument will be included in BEK’s library of technical equipment, available for use by artists. Please join us for a presentation of the instrument with Signe Lidén on 14…
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As part of the symposium “The Only Lasting Truth is Change”, BEK invites creative practitioners to the workshop series “Rewilding Practice”. Led by multidisciplinary artist Mark Fell, with philosopher Robin Mackay, this workshop series aims to critically examine beliefs about creative practice — for example, relationships between creativity and technology, approaches to collaboration, concerns with authorship and agency; as well…
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BEK launches a new durational symposium, “The Only Lasting Truth is Change”, unfolding in Bergen, Norway across Autumn 2021, and investigating future configurations of art, technology, nature and power. With contributions from:Anna L. Tsing, Mark Fell & Robin Mackay, Jackie Karuti, Signe Lidén, Geir Tore Holm, Hanan Benammar, Sara Eliassen, Lars Holdhus, Tenthaus, Rian Treanor and others. This long form…
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This week, eight participants are assembled on BEKs premises for part one of the workshop “Landscape as Material Witness”. In the inaugural part of the workshop, Fredrik Salhus gave an introduction to photogrammetry as a tool for artists. The participants have been presented with ways to use photogrammetry when mapping and investigating objects or smaller defined areas. As a technique,…
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Come join us at BEK for an informal guided tour through our studios and spaces, and an installation presenting a work-in-progress by our artists in studio residency Jennifer D’Amore and Enara Barnés Larrukert. During a two-week residency in BEK sound studio, Jennifer and Enara will be developing the project Tree-Dimensions, excerpts of which will be presented under the Kulturnatt. Tree-Dimensions…
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We bid a fond and teary-eyed farewell to Vilde Salhus Røed as she leaves BEK to allow more time for her own artistic practice. Vilde has been with us since 2016 as information manager. With her great capacity for work, sharp wits and broad field of inquiry, she has been central to most of what has been developed at BEK…
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We are happy and excited to welcome two new members into the BEK team! From August 2021, BEK has hired Åsne Hagen as information manager and Kaeto Sweeney as production assistant in art and technology. Åsne Hagen is the new information manager. Before joining BEK, she held the position of market coordinator at Tekstallmenningen and, prior to that, managing director of…
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