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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The internet’s violent turn is no longer confined to sensational images or misinformation, it runs deep within the architecture of platforms. In his critical analysis of technological violence, Geert Lovink reveals how algorithms, code, and network design produce new forms of exclusion and control, and why the only real response is to dismantle the platform principle itself. Lovink will present…
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Welcome to this workshop during BEKs symposium The Only Lasting Truth is Change: Voice, Seed, Brutality.
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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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Phloem Sap invites the listener into an imagined ecosystem of sound, where memories, landscapes and sonic textures flow through and between us like an invisible current. Through an interplay of field recordings and synthesis, Jenny Berger Myhre and Niklas Adam create a quadraphonic audio-visual experience that reflects on how sound connects humans and their environments.
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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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