Machine Space (2018)Stephen ConnollyHD video, 24:20 min. Machine Space is an essay film exploring the city as a machine; a place of movement and circulation. It is a visualization of the ideas of Henri Lefebvre, philosopher of space and urban life. It uses performative techniques, in movement around the city by automobile; and the playing of a game of primitive…
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Now I see things for the way it is (2019)Aske ThibergHD video, 29:54 min. A few years ago Thiberg discovered a chat room online for youth who had isolated themselves from society by staying indoors. He decided to make an artwork recreating four of the users’ bedrooms in 3D animation, using the pictures and descriptions that were sent in the…
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Centarium (2020)Aleksander Johan Andreassen4K Video, 21:58 min. Centarium is staged and filmed in selected shopping centres around Mo i Rana in Norway. During mostly normal opening hours, a chain of events starts with a mannequin coming to life. A cleaner gets a glimpse of this, and the film follows these two characters’ meetings and movements in, at times, identical settings.…
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In Thure Erik Lund’s writings, technology seems to be a springboard for reflection on nature and culture, and man´s transformations during a digital era. In his last essay collection, Romutvidelser (2019) he raises the question if nature and technology can merge. He has been called a kind of “techno-mystic”, who is continuously approaching the indiscernible future. Lund is currently working…
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In February, BEK presented Warning – the trail – turn left – turn right, a one-night exhibition of works produced during the workshop Returning to Actuality. In conjunction with Så jævla sanntid (So damn real-time), we present an online version of the exhibition in the period of 27th May to 7th June.
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Last year’s Future DiverCities LAB at BEK! We used the seminar Survival Kit for the Age of Technology in 2018 as our point of departure, and invited a number of artists, creatives and experts to co-create a real Survival Kit for Age of Technology – in the form of a video book. The result was released in a video screening, open for the public at BEK on Saturday June 15th…
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Between April 23rd - May 10th, BEK will present a selection of projects reflecting on the technological challenges facing our current and future cities. The projects take a range of temporal and spatial formats, including single performances, workshops, an exhibition, a sound app and a video programme on loop.
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Join us for BEK’s contribution to the Kulturbykonferansen 2020 on Tuesday, February 18 at 9.00. Please find full program and registration information (necessary but free) here.
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Welcome to this presentation of new works/works in process by Anne Marthe Dyvi, Gitte Sætre, Neal Cahoon, Samuel Brzeski and Åsne Eldøy Friday February 7th 17.00 at BEK. The artists have been part of the workshop “Returning to Actuality”, where they have explored the notions of ‘landscape’ as a diagram of structural power relations, the theory ‘Fukeiron’, and the politics…
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This workshop will provide an opportunity to the participants to create works which explore the notions of ‘landscape’. We will investigate landscape as a diagram of structural power relations, the landscape theory ‘Fukeiron’, and explore the politics of landscape representation. Can a critical reading of a landscape (representation) enable us to see a visual ‘diagram’ of social and economic relations…
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