We are incredibly proud and happy to wish you welcome to the new BEK! The last two weeks in January 2019, we invite old and new colleagues and partners to the opening party, presentations and workshops in our new premises. It will also be possible to get an introduction to the studios and to our new routines. Save the dates…
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Come and listen to what Brita UT has been working on during her work residency in BEK’s sound studio! Light refreshments.
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Line Horneland has been working at BEK with Innimellom er lyden stille, both in the sound studio and in the project room. BEK has been advising the development of the work, which is now shown at Lydgalleriet.
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Open meeting about the future after the KNYT-scheme, Arts Council Norway’s terminated funding scheme for art and technology. Light refreshments will be served. Please note that the conversation mainly will be held in Norwegian. After the KNYT-scheme was terminated in 2017, artists and production sites are left with the question of where applications for funding now should be sent. How…
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The exhibition The Poacher’s Dream by Eleanor Clare og Dillan Marsh consist of multiple channels of sound and video – spoken and sung narratives that unfold as one moves through the space. BEK has been advising the duo while they were developing the project, and has contributed with technical equipment for the production of the work and for the exhibition at Visningsrommet USF.
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Freja Bäckman’s project I was told I chop wood like a ballet dancer is now on view as a sound and video installation at Hordaland Art Centre, a project that in April appeared as a concert in the forms of a performance and an installation at District Berlin. Bäckman was artist in residency at USF Verftet in Bergen during the spring…
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SPRANG, version Osterøy made especially for the old Gjerstad-barn at Osterøy Museum We are happy to invite you to the opening of Maia Urstad and Hilde Hauan’s work SPRANG on Saturday November 3rd at 15h in the Gjerstad-barn at Osterøy Museum. The exhibition will be opened by art historian Gunnar Danbolt and Mayor at Osterøy Jarle Skeidsvoll. In the project…
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I Have Left You the Mountain is currently at view in the exhibition Metamorphoses – Let Everything Happen to You at Castello di Rivoli in Turin, curated by Chus Martínez. I Have Left You the Mountain presents ten new texts written by contemporary writers and thinkers on the architecture of displacement. These texts have been set to music and sung by some of…
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Anne Cecilie Lie’s master project is based upon a network of entangled habitats woven together in multiple sound walks through the campus of the University of Life Sciences (NMBU) at Ås, in combination with a series of deadwood sculptures, placed in the surrounding landscape. The work is presented in collaboration with Vitenparken Campus Ås. BEK has been advising the development…
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On the occasion of the launching of newly formed Bergen based electronic music label Nordnes Recordings, Arthur Hureau releases his 4th album called Dark Matters. The album has partly been developed at BEK, and several of the other artists on the label are artists we also often see here at BEK. The launch party will showcase it’s artists for this…
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