Golden Serenades at Bergen kunsthall
The Golden Serenades will perform a concert version of their sound installation at Bergen kunsthall. The installation was commissioned by BEK and shown at Lydgalleriet in 2008.
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The Golden Serenades will perform a concert version of their sound installation at Bergen kunsthall. The installation was commissioned by BEK and shown at Lydgalleriet in 2008.
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Avgarde celebrates the composer Ketil Hvoslef at 70 with a concert presenting excerpts from his oeuvre. Paintings by Line Hvoslef will provide a visual backdrop for the concert. BEK has assisted Line Hvoslef in preparing the images for video screening.
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Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen is currently Artist-in-Residence at USF Verftet. During her residency, she is developing at BEK a thirty-channel dynamic installation entitled For An Epidemic Resistance, which will be presented at Galleri Pictura / Skånska konstmuseum as their official contribution to the music and art festival Full Pull;Kontra ’09.
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Leading musicians from Norway and abroad working with improvisation, interactive electronic processing and extended instruments meet up for a seminar during the Ultima festival.
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Operation Almenrausch was the covername of the biggest operation against Norwegian resistance during the second world war, the attack on communist camp Buahaugen, in 1944. However, the operation is not commonly known today. Tore Vagn Lid takes a look at stories standing in the shadow of “good” war history. Operation Almenrausch won a Hedda Award in 2009.
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For the last ten years Cléo Palacio-Quintin has been a pioneer within an emerging field of musicians playing hyper instruments; traditional instruments extended and reinvented through the use of sensor technology and live digital sound processing. Cléo Palacio-Quintin will be talking about her musical practice. The day before, Saturday 19th she is performing at USF as part of the Avgarde program.
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British artist and film maker Terry Flaxton is our guest for the first artist talk this autumn. Terry Flaxton is a senior research fellow in HD Video Production at the University of Bristol, U.K. Terry Flaxton has been involved in the UK video art and indepent film milieu since the late seveties and has worked with a broad range of productions including documentaries, video installations and television productions, including one of the first tv-series on video art in the UK, made in 1985.
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AudioSpace is a yearly seminar at KHiB about the relationships between sound, music and art. This year it will focus on the question of the instrument. Guests are artists who address this issue in different ways, from domestication of casette players to installations that perform, to text scores. Lecturers include Trond Lossius, Atle Selnes Nilsen, Pedro Gómez-Egaña, John Lely and Icaro Zorbar.
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BEK is among the contributors to the publication Localised, published by Ctrl+Z Publishers on the occasion of the Bergen Biennial Conference in September 2009.
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Jamoma is an open-source project to facilitates art-based research and performance practice within Cycling’74’s Max5. Jamoma is an open-source project to facilitates art-based research and performance practice within Cycling’74’s Max5.
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