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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Maia Urstad will premiere her new live performance “Time Pockets” on 29 April at the Oscillation festival in Brussels. Urstad worked on the performance in her recent studio residency at BEK. “Time Pockets” is a new live performance that Maia Urstad developed for presentation at the Oscillation festival. The title of the work refers to “spare time between tasks”. These…
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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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Eight artists were gathered in Bergen and Odda this week for a workshop with artist-researcher Susan Schuppli. Together, they have explored how events and processes leave traces in nature and ecosystems. Through site-based fieldwork, discussions, and presentations, the artists have reflected on how environmental systems are recording evidence of change, traces which are being expressed aesthetically through visible changes in…
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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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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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During her work residency at BEK, singer and composer Hilde Annine Hasselberg will prepare audio material for the project Et lite barn (A Little Child); a concert that draws parallels between the Christmas gospel and the current refugee crisis. The sound material will mainly be developed in Ableton Live with the use of natural sounds related to the story being told in the work. During the concert, this sound material will function both as an audible backdrop and as an instrument that Hasselberg can use live on stage.
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