Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

The artists participating are Espen Sommer Eide / Kristin Tårnesvik ( NO), Guro Gomo ( NO), Amanda Steggell (UK / U.S.) and Paolo Zuccotti (IT / SE) / Jan Hajdelak Husták ( CZ / EN )

Taking Turns Bergen teaser from hajdelak on Vimeo.

ATTENTION ! Participation in the interactive performance “ Taking Turns “ by Paolo Zuccotti and Jan Hajdelak Husták requires registration. To participate please book at: http://doodle.com/fxi65wunhuiux47e

Espen Sommer Eide ( b. 1972 ) lives and works in Bergen in the crossover area between philosophy, music, visual and performing arts. In addition to touring at home and abroad, he showed artworks in several spaces, including at Henie-Onstad Center, Stedelijk Amsterdam, Manifesta 7 and Bergen Kunsthal. Kristin Tårnesvik ( b. 1964 ) Artworks joins her longtime exploration of the relationship between art, political ideology and propaganda. Tårnesvik’s main tools are photography and text.In addition, she works with performance, interventions and installations. Sommer Eide and Tårnesvik will perform the work “Weeds Archives (live )” at 13:00 and 15.00 in 3rd floor in the project room

Guro Gomo ( b. 1981 ) shows the work “70×1”, a performance and video installation based on personal writings. Using recording equipment she has read the commands that will hopefully help her to use the time for something constructive during her session. The work will be shown between 10:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. on 3 floor.

Amanda Steggell (b. 1965) is a choreographer and artist. She combines media art with performance, inspired by phenomenology and science- fiction. Steggell presents “Energy Bank. Crank & Go!”, a unique and mobile station consisting of a generator with a hand crank and a sound system, which is worn like a backpack and which can be used to charge mobile phones. Worn by an employe of Energy Bank as a portable tool, the employe will go around and offer this service to visitors. The work appears contineously between 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the entire building.

Paolo Zuccotti ( b.1983 ) and Jan Hadjdelak Husták ( b.1983 ) his work “Taking Turns” is an engaging and interactive performance that explores how perception shapes our reality. The work, which can only be experienced by one person at a time, consists of a walk through a performance – installation. The project was initiated by Paolo Zuccotti ( concept) and realized with Jan Hajdelak rooftops ( multimedia design), in collaboration with Bonthrop ( artistic and technical consultant ) . Individuel registration at http://doodle.com/fxi65wunhuiux47e

Note that “video glasses” will be used during the performance. Therefore we discourage the participation of children under 7 years old and people with epileptic disorders. Registration required.