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BEK Opening Week: Sound performances: tonota, Arthur Hureau

Please join us for two exciting sound performances as part of BEK Opening Week 2023! Our recent studio resident tonota performs her multichannel work “uncertainty”, followed by a multichannel live set from Arthur Hureau. Saturday 25 February18:00 Doors open. 19:00 Concert startsBEK, C. Sundts gate 55, 9th floorFree and open for all (no registration required!) tonota: “uncertainty“ “uncertainty” is a…

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BEK, C. Sundts gate 55, 9th floor 25.02.2023

Intersymmetric_NNNB_BEK by Rian Treanor

Rian Treanor continues developing the Intersymmetric project – a unique multiplayer drum machine that people can play together in real time over the internet, built in cooperation with Mark Fell. For the symposium “The Only Lasting Truth is Change”, Treanor convenes a workshop exploring new forms of sound synthesis and algorithmic pattern making and leads a collaborative remote live performance…

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Østre, Østre Skostredet 3 + streamed on Vimeo 12.11.2022

Ng Tsz-Kwan: Off-duty Gods

Exploring a contemporary Chinese tradition of relocating old religious statues to street corners, Ng Tsz-Kwan asks questions about abandonment, rituals, and objects. For the symposium, Ng builds an installation at Northing, reflecting on collective worship points spontaneously created in public spaces, and runs a series of workshops and individual performances, investigating how we deal with outdated beliefs, ideas, and ceremonies.…

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Northing, Østre Skostredet 10 09.11.2022–20.11.2022

The Politics Of Parts: Sizzling Semiconductors – a workshop with Ioana Vreme Moser

As part of the symposium “The Only Lasting Truth is Change”, BEK invites artists and musicians to the workshop “The Politics Of Parts: Sizzling Semiconductors” with Ioana Vreme Moser. Sizzling Semiconductors commences as a screaming tone at the precise touch, of a radio-sensitive mineral. The workshop proposes the construction of oscillating instruments from scratch to investigate the multifaceted history of…

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BEK, C. Sundts gate 55 07.11.2022–08.11.2022

瓠果神山閱覽室 / Gourd Guardian Mountain Reading Room – a reading room and talk by Ingrid Burrington and Ann Chen

As part of the symposium The Only Lasting Truth is Change, artists and researchers Ingrid Burrington and Ann Chen present 瓠果神山閱覽室 / Gourd Guardian Mountain Reading Room, sharing materials of their ongoing research.  Reading room opening: 9 November, 18:00 Reading room opening hours: 10–13 November, 12:00–17:00Venue: Østre, Østre Skostredet 3 Talk: 12 November, 16:30Venue: Østre, Østre Skostredet 3Streaming: https://vimeo.com/event/2528179 瓠果神山閱覽室 / Gourd…

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Østre, Østre Skostredet 3 09.11.2022–13.11.2022

Nonfiction, fictodocumentary film, and myth – a workshop with Elizabeth A. Povinelli

As part of the symposium “The Only Lasting Truth is Change” 2022, BEK invites creative practitioners to the workshop “Nonfiction, Fictodocumentary Film, and Myth: Bending Aesthetics to Critical Askesis in Settler Late Liberalism” led by anthropologist, activist and gender studies professor Elizabeth A. Povinelli. If aesthetic practices have as their origins and ends the critical transformation of settler late liberalism,…

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BEK, C. Sundts gate 55, 9th floor 29.09.2022–30.09.2022