We are very excited to welcome Jennifer Garzon and Siren Løkaas to the BEK team. Starting in January 2025, Siren will join us as the new Information Manager, and Jennifer as Project Coordinator. They will work together to make BEK more visible, engaging, and accessible.
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BEK sends a big thank you to all artists, collaborators, audiences and contributors throughout 2024.
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As many as 51 artists have immersed themselves in their projects during studio residencies at BEK throughout 2024. The artists are based in Bergen, Norway and internationally, and were invited on the basis of applications submitted to open calls.
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If you are working on an art project involving sound, moving image or electronics, you are welcome to apply for a studio residency at BEK lasting for 2–6 weeks. Deadline 5 January.
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Together with Bergen-based artists, BEK is organising a day of concerts on 14 December, in support of the work that is being done by Beirut Synth Center and Tunefork Studios for displaced people in Lebanon.
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BEK is proud to announce that we have been collaborating with Kunstnernes Hus, co-producing a new film by Ramallah-based artist Shuruq Harb, as part of our remote residency programme BEK Off-Centred.
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Four talks that were streamed during BEK's symposium The Only Lasting Truth is Change 2023 are available here to watch and rewatch. The symposium took place in Bergen on 16-19 November 2023 and examined how different perceptions of reality arise and collide in our steadily more automated world.
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BEK has joined the Apartheid Free Zones campaign, inspired by the struggle against apartheid in South Africa and seeking to cut links of complicity in Israeli violations of human rights in Palestine.
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In collaboration with Bergen Filmklubb, we invite you to two experimental films that explore bodily autonomy and young people's movement across different borders, COME HERE by Anocha Suwichakornpong and THE HUMAN SURGE 3 by Eduardo Williams. Eduardo Williams presented a new commission work at BEK’s symposium in 2022, and now we have the pleasure of inviting him back for a talk during this double screening.
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BEK presents an one-day workshop for artists and filmmakers, led by the acclaimed film director Eduardo Williams. The workshop delves into the world of 360 videography, and the creative use of cameras in different contexts.
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