Conversation between Marwa Arsanios, Shuruq Harb, and Omar Itani, lead by Sarah Lookofsky
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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.
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The internet’s violent turn is no longer confined to sensational images or misinformation, it runs deep within the architecture of platforms. In his critical analysis of technological violence, Geert Lovink reveals how algorithms, code, and network design produce new forms of exclusion and control, and why the only real response is to dismantle the platform principle itself. Lovink will present…
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Welcome to this workshop during BEKs symposium The Only Lasting Truth is Change: Voice, Seed, Brutality.
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Come dance with us! For her first appearance ever in Bergen, DJ Daeva is bringing the latest electronic clubnight folk rhythms from Mumbai to Marrakech, Sápmi to Sudan, Afghanistan, South America and the Middle East.
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Phloem Sap invites the listener into an imagined ecosystem of sound, where memories, landscapes and sonic textures flow through and between us like an invisible current. Through an interplay of field recordings and synthesis, Jenny Berger Myhre and Niklas Adam create a quadraphonic audio-visual experience that reflects on how sound connects humans and their environments.
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Through three intertwined notes, Marwa Arsanios traces the animal’s entanglement with the histories of land, labor, and resistance. Moving between the silkworm, the grazing herds, and the robotic dog used in warfare, the essay connects each animal to changes in the landscape: from collective farming in mashaas, to reorganisation of land into plots of private property and to violent land theft.
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In this audiovisual performance, Nasim Mashak takes the audience on a sonic experience across land borders, carried by voice and mixed with rhythms, accompanied by a vast archive of world wide folk dance.
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Touki and Rehana Zaman present a layering of sound, film excerpts, and discussion drawn from their ongoing collaborative film project commissioned by BEK. Responding to the question What is Change?, the presentation intertwines collective reflection and artistic process, weaving together voices, fragments, and perspectives that explore transformation through dialogue and solidarity.
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In this performance and sound installation in public space the Beirut-based artist Omar Itani delves into the hidden acoustic world of the service industry. Focusing on the muffled rhythms of restaurant backrooms, Itani draws parallels between these unseen spaces and the subterranean lives of rats.
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