Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

Elina Waage Mikalsen is in a studio residency at BEK 9–14 March preparing for the world premiere of Stáinnarbánit – Wolffish teeth at Borealis – a festival for experimental music. Repetition, circles and weaving characterise this new performance commission Stáinnarbánit – Wolffish teeth, from Borealis Artist in Residence, Elina Waage Mikalsen. Taking as its starting point the very short and possibly endless…

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Amber Ablett was in a studio residency at BEK 26 February–1 March preparing for the exhibition My Fathers Left at Visningsrommet, as part of Borealis – a festival for experimental music. Bergen based artist and writer Amber Ablett presents a new sound installation for Borealis, exploring fatherhood from the perspective of children from the African diaspora. The collaborative research project…

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Bergen-based artists Nayara Leite and Kaeto Sweeney are finalizing their upcoming multichannel sound and video installation “The Demise of Everything Good” in BEK’s studios. The work will be exhibited in the upcoming group show “The Matrix of Power” at Nitja senter for samtidskunst in Lillestrøm, February–April 2024. Using the video studio, they are post-producing a film shot over two days…

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Pavel Sterec, based in Prague, has been working in BEK’s video and sound studios for the past couple of weeks, developing a video-essay for his multimedia project Stakhanovites of Transformation.  Pavel Sterec combines performance, object, installation, photography and other media in a variety of ways. His interest circles around the issues of research, science, museums and archives, social structures and…

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Roy Claire Potter, an artist working between performance and writing, is coming to BEK for a two week residency in July 2023.  Developing a new sound work, commissioned by BEK and focused on CB (citizens band) radio use and culture, Potter will spend time in and around Bergen meeting various local communities and collecting, recording and editing material for the…

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Performance artist Marina Dessau is in a studio residency at BEK, working on the project “Variations of a Separation No.1: Forced Feelback”.  In “Forced Feelback”, Dessau asks: What are the paths of interpersonal connections? What is the stuff that they are made of? What imprint does a physically absent person leave on the inside of another when forcefully separated? What…

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In a two-week studio residency at BEK, Ingrid Bjørnaali, Fabian Lanzmaier and Maria Simmons have been working on “Land Bodies, Decomposing Mass” – an audiovisual project focusing on peatlands and their interpretation through various recording and 3D computing technologies.  Using photogrammetry images, field recordings and synthesized sounds, the artists aim to create an immersive space, an environment with its own…

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Ziúr & Elvin Brandhi are in a studio residency at BEK 13–18 March preparing for their performance at Borealis – a festival for experimental music. After a week writing new material in Inkonst in Malmö, they’re refining their live show by experimenting in BEK’s project space. Fusing free-spirited vocal acrobatics with punk electronics from the dimly-lit heart of Berlin, Ziúr…

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During their studio residency at BEK in May, Trude Bekk and Tom Teulon have further developed their ongoing project Sublime Synaesthesia. As part of their residency, they’ve collected and worked with material from the landscape in and around Bergen, in the form of field recordings as well as physical objects such as stones and branches. The project Sublime Synaesthesia explores…

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Multidisciplinary artist Mark Fell is back in Bergen. During his May residency he has participated in The Pirate Academy and leads the continuation of his workshop series “Rewilding Practice”. Fell’s residency is organised in cooperation between BEK and KORO’s project STUDIO at KMD, exploring studio practices and work processes in fine art, music and design. The first part of Fell’s…

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