Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

Rehana Zaman presents Rubus, a performance that takes up a multi-dimensional conversation on the social currencies and economies of industrial berry farming.  PerformanceTime: 12 November 21:45Venue: Østre, Østre Skostredet 3 Tickets: register in advance with TicketCo for a free ticket valid for entry until 23:00. Tickets at the door are 150 NOK. Encompassing moving image, sound works and performance, Zaman has invited writers and poets Seán…

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Eduardo Williams shares excerpts of his latest works – A very long gif and The Human Surge 3 – and speaks of his approach to filmmaking, physical intuition, and the constant movement that creates a melody of surprise, variation and connection between different spaces and bodies. Talk and screeningTime: 12 November 15:45Venue: Østre, Østre Skostredet 3Streaming: https://vimeo.com/event/2528179 Recorded with a swallowed pill camera,…

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The “High North” is not a place with a clear geographical border, but rather a fluid concept whose meaning has changed over the past decades. By drawing maps showing linguistic phenomena in this approximate area, Toril Johannessen traces fragments of military presence and geopolitical affairs in the everyday language and in the landscape. TalkTime: 12 November at 14:30Venue: Østre, Østre…

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During the symposium, the artist and researcher Susan Schuppli presents a newly created project, Ice Records – a sonic exploration of the climate records captured in ice sheets and glaciers. The project takes the form of a listening session, a text work, an LP, and a lecture. TalkTime: 12 November at 13:30Venue: Østre, Østre Skostredet 3 Available at Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/773743114 As…

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Together we will listen to the LP Ice Records which includes material from Susan Schuppli´s encounters with scientists, ecologists, activists, communities, and folk singers. From field recordings captured at glacial sites by researchers in Canada, Svalbard, Norway, and India to a Ladakhi folk song about mountains, rivers, and streams, these tracks take listeners into the sonic worlds of ice. LP…

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How are we affected by our concepts and images of nature and how can we avoid that the indigenous cultures are pressured by the schizophrenic ideas of nature inherent in nation states and capitalism?  Talk Time: 11 November 21:30Venue: Østre, Østre Skostredet 3 Sámi communities are often caught between the extremes that exist within the nature policies of nation-states. From the…

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If aesthetic practices have as their origins and ends the critical transformation of settler late liberalism, how do divisions of genre play in the mending or rending of the fabric of settler ontologies and epistemologies (or settler geontopower), as film and art move through institutional contexts? Online talkTime: 11 November at 20:30 CETVenue: Østre, Østre Skostredet 3 In her talk…

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Scholar and curator Martin Zeilinger considers how blockchain technologies move us towards new models of decentralisation, non-hierarchical networks, and distributed decision-making. At a time when what’s needed most is radical change and new forms of community, what uses can artists and activists find for a technology that promises to make data immutable, and to work without human intermediaries? TalkTime: 11 November…

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In her talk for the symposium, professor Catherine Malabou will present some of her recent work exploring relations between philosophy and anarchism. Online talkTime: 11 November at 18:30 CETVenue: Østre, Østre Skostredet 3 Capitalism today is changing from being centralised to become multiple horizontal platforms, an apparently democratic form of being. This opens up a discussion on a kind of…

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Artist Hanan Benammar invites you to a performative event that aims to challenge fundamental concepts such as nationalism, resistance and cultural hegemony in the context of Western Sahara’s struggle for self-determination. The audience is given participatory rights during the conversation, mimicking the Universal Periodic Review, a process through which all UN member states are provided the opportunity to review the…

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