Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

How are we affected by our concepts and images of nature and how can we avoid that the indigenous cultures are pressured by the schizophrenic ideas of nature inherent in nation states and capitalism?  Talk Time: 11 November 21:30Venue: Østre, Østre Skostredet 3 Sámi communities are often caught between the extremes that exist within the nature policies of nation-states. From the…

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If aesthetic practices have as their origins and ends the critical transformation of settler late liberalism, how do divisions of genre play in the mending or rending of the fabric of settler ontologies and epistemologies (or settler geontopower), as film and art move through institutional contexts? Online talkTime: 11 November at 20:30 CETVenue: Østre, Østre Skostredet 3 In her talk…

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Scholar and curator Martin Zeilinger considers how blockchain technologies move us towards new models of decentralisation, non-hierarchical networks, and distributed decision-making. At a time when what’s needed most is radical change and new forms of community, what uses can artists and activists find for a technology that promises to make data immutable, and to work without human intermediaries? TalkTime: 11 November…

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In her talk for the symposium, professor Catherine Malabou will present some of her recent work exploring relations between philosophy and anarchism. Online talkTime: 11 November at 18:30 CETVenue: Østre, Østre Skostredet 3 Capitalism today is changing from being centralised to become multiple horizontal platforms, an apparently democratic form of being. This opens up a discussion on a kind of…

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Artist Hanan Benammar invites you to a performative event that aims to challenge fundamental concepts such as nationalism, resistance and cultural hegemony in the context of Western Sahara’s struggle for self-determination. The audience is given participatory rights during the conversation, mimicking the Universal Periodic Review, a process through which all UN member states are provided the opportunity to review the…

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I Shall Sing Until My Land Is Free is a Ukrainian experimental music label, supporting Ukrainian resistance against Russia by donating profits to self-defence and humanitarian foundations, and dedicated to all the fighters for freedom and independence in the world. Pop-up label shopOpening: 9 November at 19:30 Venue: Vestre, Vestre Skostredet 2Opening hours: 10–13 November, 12:00-17:00 Run by Dmytro Fedorenko and Kateryna Zavoloka, I…

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Exploring different forms of knowledge sharing and searching for new methodologies and strategies for art practice, the symposium includes a series of workshops taking place in September–November 2022: Nonfiction, Fictodocumentary Film, and Myth: Bending Aesthetics to Critical Askesis in Settler Late Liberalism – a workshop with Elizabeth A. Povinelli The Politics of Parts: Sizzling Semiconductors – a workshop with Ioana Vreme…

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BEK is proud to present a new edition of its symposium The Only Lasting Truth is Change, investigating current and future configurations of art, technology, nature and power. See the full programme here. With contributions from: Catherine Malabou, Elizabeth Povinelli, Ingrid Burrington and Ann Chen, Susan Schuppli, Eduardo Williams, Toril Johannessen, Hanan Benammar, Rehana Zaman, Matti Aikio, Helle Siljeholm, Ng…

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The symposium The Only Lasting Truth is Change brought together artists and scholars from several continents to examine what an artwork can be and what an artwork can do in a world that cannot and should not return to ‘normal’ post-pandemic. We are happy to share some glimpses of the events 19–20 November. Pictured: Tenthaus – Lucia Pietroiusti – Maria Rusinovskaya of…

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The Only Lasting Truth is Change is an extended symposium investigating future configurations of art, technology, nature and power. Collecting all the symposium threads and projects on 19–20 November, BEK invites you to an intensive two-day programme of discussions and performances, radio broadcasts and screenings, recipes and diagrams. With contributions by Anna L. Tsing, Lucia Pietroiusti, Stephanie Dinkins, Mark Fell…

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