Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

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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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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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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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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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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Touki and Rehana Zaman present a layering of sound, film excerpts, and discussion drawn from their ongoing collaborative film project commissioned by BEK. Responding to the question What is Change?, the presentation intertwines collective reflection and artistic process, weaving together voices, fragments, and perspectives that explore transformation through dialogue and solidarity.

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In this performance and sound installation in public space the Beirut-based artist Omar Itani delves into the hidden acoustic world of the service industry. Focusing on the muffled rhythms of restaurant backrooms, Itani draws parallels between these unseen spaces and the subterranean lives of rats.

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Come dance with us! For her first appearance ever in Bergen, DJ Daeva is bringing the latest electronic clubnight folk rhythms from Mumbai to Marrakech, Sápmi to Sudan, Afghanistan, South America and the Middle East.

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In this audiovisual performance, Nasim Mashak takes the audience on a sonic experience across land borders, carried by voice and mixed with rhythms, accompanied by a vast archive of world wide folk dance.

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Through three intertwined notes, Marwa Arsanios traces the animal’s entanglement with the histories of land, labor, and resistance. Moving between the silkworm, the grazing herds, and the robotic dog used in warfare, the essay connects each animal to changes in the landscape: from collective farming in mashaas, to reorganisation of land into plots of private property and to violent land theft.

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