Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

The performance presents a collaborative audiovisual tapestry developed during a three-day workshop led by Cameron Graham, followed by a conversation with Zein Majali.

Friday, February 20.
BEK, C. Sundts gate 55, floor 9
19:00-23:00

Using a triptych of interactive performance technologies, the workshop group explores an ‘intermedia dream logic’ in which rhythm and pulse, live text, film, and sound converge. The project moves through and against media forms, forging a collective interrogation of time and temporal incongruity through installative performance.

Zein Majali

Zein Majali is a Jordanian-Palestinian sound and visual artist whose work explores the collision of technology with a rapidly evolving political landscape, with an interest in a post-colonial and globalised Middle East. Her work examines sense-making in the wake of narrative collapse, brought on by the disorienting effects of digital life.

Her practice spans audiovisual performance, moving image, sound, sculpture, and computational processes. She works with found material, synthetic imagery, and live sound, often developing projects as modular systems that shift between installation, performance, and online circulation. Her work has been presented at institutions including the V&A, Somerset House Studios, Showroom, Ibraaz, and the ICA.

Majali completed an MA in Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art in 2022 and holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Tufts University. Formerly an engineer, she turned to artistic practice out of an urgency to archive and examine accelerated cultural and political shifts in the Arab world.

Cameron Graham

Cameron is an artist, composer and sensory percussionist whose work unsettles and reorients sonic experience through intermedia, parafiction, and simulation. His work draws on psychoacoustics, audio cultures, and the cultural histories of technology and automation. Projects unfold across installation, electronic music, hybrid performance, and interaction design. Recent work explores the role of the voice in histories of automation, capture, synthesis and AI-mediation––the  emergent social and ethical ambiguities that surround contemporary vocal agency and authenticity. Recent and upcoming projects include a concert installation for the London Symphony Orchestra, ‘Abat-Voix’ (BEK Bergen); ‘Admiror, or Revolutionary Sentiments’ (Guggenheim NYC,); ‘J’ai Attrapé’ (Le Lieu Unique); ‘fake & extinct’, made in collaboration with artist Klara Kofen (Centrale Fies). His concert music has been commissioned by orchestras and ensembles globally.

Awards include a British Council Grant for his solo exhibition ‘Contact Results in Contagion’ (Ground Solyanka), the Styria Artist Fellowship and multiple PRS for music awards. His electronic music is released on the Phantom Limb label, with a forthcoming album in 2026-27. Alongside his art, music and research, he lectures and supervises at the University of Surrey and City St. George’s University, and is a senior lecturer in music and media at Richmond Upon Thames College London. He is one half of the band ‘phorne’ with Klara Kofen.

ACCESSIBILITY

BEK is unfortunately not wheelchair accessible. BEK is situated on the 9th floor, with access through a small three person elevator, or a large industrial elevator and a staircase. There are 17 steps between the 8th floor elevator and the 9th floor. Our space has all gender toilet facilities, but not an universal, accessible toilet. Service dogs are welcome. We also provide the option of a quiet room.Please send us an email at bek@bek.no if you would like to know anything more, have any questions and we’ll do our best to facilitate your needs.

The project is part of New Perspectives for Action; a project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union.

Images: 1) Design by Blank Blank Studios 2) Photo: Cameron Graham 3) Photo: Zein Majali

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