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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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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Rice, wheat, maize, barley, sorghum, millet; all staple grains that are central to daily life in regions that are experiencing conflict. By bringing these grains into a humble shared meal, Conflict Grains seeks to frame eating as a form of attention: a moment of togetherness, to reflect, and gently acknowledge the interconnectedness between sustenance and survival. The dinner becomes both a gathering and a quiet question — how do we nourish ourselves amid ongoing violence, and what does it mean to share that nourishment across distance?
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In Colombia’s Tolima region, women share their struggle to preserve Indigenous knowledge and agricultural traditions. Amid conflicts over land, natural resources, and forced displacement, seeds, and the right to cultivate them, stand as symbols of both resistance and autonomy.
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BEK invites you to Kulturnatt in our project space, with screenings of the films The White Elephant by Shuruq Harb and Who is Afraid of Ideology? Part 1 by Marwa Arsanios, both artists affiliated with BEK.
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ASTERISK and BEK invite you to a three day workshop with Chloé Desmoineaux exploring a playful repurposing practice: hacking existing games and their interfaces and creating new game interfaces from a creative, queer, and inclusive perspective.
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You're warmly invited to a night of sound and BBQ on Friday, June 20. This year, we have something extra special to celebrate: BEK is turning 25, and we’re marking the occasion with a festive anniversary celebration, live music featuring a line-up of our current residents at BEK.
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Three-day workshop exploring spatial audio through both theory and practice led by composer Mariam Gviniashvili.
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As part of the seminar Ears to the Ground: Ecology, Environment and (Sonic) Media Technologies (beyond Eurocentric models) there will be an evening of performances at BEK. The seminar is curated by Budhaditya Chattopadhyay and is a collaboration between KMD, UiB and BEK.
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