Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

This text is one of the pilot studies of Re-Imagine Europe: New Perspectives for Action. This text emerges from BEKs symposium The Only Lasting Truth is Change: Voice, Seed, Brutality (21–23 November 2025, Bergen), and reflects the collaborative project Gneiss by Touki and Rehana Zaman. Developed as part of an ongoing film project commissioned by BEK, the work brings together sound, moving image, and discussion in response to the question: What is change?

Produced within the framework of Re-Imagine Europe: New Perspectives for Action, the text situates this collaborative work within a broader effort to explore how artistic practices can respond to ecological, social, and political challenges. Moving between documentation and poetic inquiry, it traces how transformation is lived and negotiated through dialogue, solidarity, and collective making.

Re-Imagine Europe: New Perspectives for Action (2023–2027) is a four-year transnational co-creation and circulation project of fourteen interdisciplinary art organisations across Europe. The project aims to equip and empower young Europeans through artistic practices to better withstand societal challenges triggered by rapid climate change.

The Re-Imagine Europe partnership is a collaboration of: Paradiso (NL), Sonic Acts (NL), Elevate Festival (AT), INA grm (FR), A4 (SK), Borealis (NO), KONTEJNER (HR), BEK (NO), RUPERT (LT), Disruption Network Lab (DE), Semibreve (PT), Parco Arte Vivente (IT), Kontrapunkt (MK) and Radio Web MACBA (ES).

Images: Gneiss, an extended live performance by Touki and Rehana Zaman, with Daiyen Jone Castro. The Only Lasting is Change 2025. Photo: Nayara Leite.