Open meeting about the future after the KNYT-scheme, Arts Council Norway’s terminated funding scheme for art and technology. Light refreshments will be served. Please note that the conversation mainly will be held in Norwegian. After the KNYT-scheme was terminated in 2017, artists and production sites are left with the question of where applications for funding now should be sent. How…
Anne Marthe Dyvi at BEK has specially made an exposition for the very first issue of VIS – Nordic Journal for Artistic Research. This is not / Dette er ikke is a revisit of several of Dyvi’s video works, and she re-examines how they establish a visual and non-verbal language through the use of colour, movement, form and time. The…
One of the Future DiveCities project’s (FDC) ambitions is to share our local and national artist networks with our international partners. BEK’s knowledge of artists that experiment with art and technology will be shared and exchanged between partner organisations.
At the international theatre festival METEOR 2017 you can see results from the research- and collaborative project Blind Spot, where BEK is one of the collaborators. Blind Spot – Staring Down the Void The performance Blind Spot – Staring Down the Void is playfully presented by a group of artists spanning several genres, who share an interest in our sense of…
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Mareike Dobewall and Gisli Gretarsson will do a residency at BEK in mid Octobre. Friday 21st they will share their findings in an artist talk and discuss the future of their project „Voiceland“.
BEK is co-producing several projects for this years Bergen Assembly. Since 2014 we have developed content together with Bergen Assembly-curators, artists and administration. It has been a deep digging experience, and we are looking forward to see, hear and feel the results.
Espen Sommer Eide is exhibiting his sound work “The Distribution Of The Audible” at Øyafestivalen from the 9th-13th of August. The work consist of approximately 30 sound clips recorded all over the world and played through old horn speakers at the festival.
“Lyden i mellomrommet” (The sound in-between) is the master thesis by Line Horneland, completed at Stord/Haugesund University College in the spring 2016. The text is a critical reflection on various aspects of artistic development relating to the interactive vocal installation “Lyden i mellomrommet”. The installation was open to public at Sola ruinkirke January 2016.
Main supervisor has been Magne Ingolv Espeland, and Trond Lossius at BEK has been assistant supervisor.
Ursus produksjoner har produsert en nyskrevet opera og Sigurd Fischer Olsen har komponert musikken. Verket er bestilt av BEK, og støttet av Norsk kulturråd. Bildene er fra forestillingene, og fotografert av Thor Brødreskift.