Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

Detailed programme for BEKs symposium The Only Lasting Truth is Change 2025.

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Monday Lectures at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen is pleased to invite you all to the public lecture “Moving Images — of, from and to Palestine” by artist Shuruq Harb.

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In the run up to BEKs symposium The Only Lasting Truth is Change: Voice, Seed, Brutality. Russell Haswell will host a 2 day workshop that will culminate in a live collective diffusion on the final day of the symposium 23. November. 

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Conversation between Shuruq Harb, who will join the discussion digitally, and Mihkkal Hætta

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In the Presence of Absence by Shuruq Harb is a poetic and sensory live performance that contemplates a beautiful stone in Ein Qiniya, on the outskirts of Ramallah. Through this intimate reading of place, Harb reflects on a mountain suspended between preservation and prohibition, where the traces of mysticism linger amid the violent absurditites of “Area C”.

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Artist and researcher Ameneh Solati presents a performance lecture that explores the wetlands of southern Iraq as dynamic political landscapes where environmental, social, and historical forces intertwine. Moving between past and present, Solati traces a continuum of ecological violence and resistance.

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Mihkkal Hætta is a filmmaker exploring the landscapes, stories, and traditions of Sápmi. Through two short films and an artist presentation, he invites the audience to experience the deep connection between land, culture, and memory within Sámi storytelling traditions.

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In this performative lecture and writing lab, Carol Stampone moves between philosophy and poetry to explore how we inhabit time, exhaustion, and change. Guided by Octavia Butler, Fanny Söderbäck, and Byung-Chul Han, she invites participants to think and feel together through a series of open questions on obsession, burnout, and the rhythms of revolutionary time.

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Conversation between Marwa Arsanios, Shuruq Harb, and Omar Itani, lead by Sarah Lookofsky

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Artist and researcher Lesia Vasylchenko explores how time, technology, and trauma intertwine in her ongoing investigation of Chronesthetic Wounds. Through her lens, the traces of war, ecological collapse, and data-driven perception become temporal scars, evidence of how the planet and its systems sense and store memory. In this artist talk, Vasylchenko will present recent works and reflections on the sensing of time as both a human and technological condition.

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