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Studio Residency: Pavel Sterec

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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BEK 01.08.2023–26.08.2023

Artist-in-residence: Roy Claire Potter

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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BEK, C. Sundts gate 55 03.07.2023–15.07.2023

Studio residency: Marina Dessau

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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BEK, C. Sundts gate 55 12.06.2023–20.06.2023

“Land Bodies, Decomposing Mass” by Bjørnaali, Lanzmaier and Simmons

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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BEK, C. Sundts gate 55 10.04.2023–23.04.2023

Studio residency: Ziúr & Elvin Brandhi 

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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BEK, C. Sundts gate 55 13.03.2023–18.03.2023

Studio residency: Trude Bekk and Tom Teulon

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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BEK 02.05.2022–16.05.2022

Mark Fell in residence at BEK

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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Bergen 04.05.2022–23.05.2022
Benjamin Thigpen in concert, Yaroslavl, 2015. Photo: Ilya Privezentsev

Benjamin Thigpen to explore sound at BEK in January

Working with his invented instruments, Paris-based electroacoustic composer and performer Benjamin Thigpen will be in a studio residency at BEK from 10–22 Jan 2022.  Objects such as knives, baking dishes, paper clips, and saws often figure in Thigpen´s instruments, which are built around piezo contact microphones, inductors used as magnetic field microphones, small exciters for mechanical feedback, larger coils for…

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BEK, C. Sundts gate 55 10.01.2022–22.01.2022

HC Gilje in BEK´s video studio

This week, HC Gilje is in our video studio working on a project for The North Norwegian Art Centre (NNKS). Gilje has been involved with the coastal fishing community in Vardø and 3D scanned their fishing equipment and sheds. He is now making a 3D work, based on the material, to be presented in Vardø 17–20 February 2022. See the…

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BEK 10.12.2021–15.12.2021
Elina Waage Mikalsen og Peder Niilas Tårnesvik

Studio Sessions with Peder Niilas Tårnesvik & Elina Waage Mikalsen

Do you remember when you last heard a new musical genre for the first time, or a completely new auditory universe, or a surprising combination of sounds you did not expect to fit together? With BEK Studio Sessions, we aim to cultivate this moment. For this version, Peder Niilas Tårnesvik and Elina Waage Mikalsen will be working together in BEK´s…

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BEK 04.10.2021–10.10.2021

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