Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

In the Project Space, Hordaland Kunstsenter presents Visus Tactus Gustus by Eleanor Clare and Dillan Marsh. In this installation of new works the artist duo take inspiration from Munkeliv kloster. The exhibition includes a 6 channel sound installation, for which Clare and Marsh used the studio at BEK to make vocal recordings and got technical and artistic guidance throughout the process.

We have the pleasure of presenting projects in the context of Latent City online at bek.no during the exhibition 12 – 29 November. Please find them all here.

Welcome to the opening of Latent City 12 November from 19.00 – live streamed directly to you from Bergen Kjøtt! The opening night presents the launch of the VUMA Soner app, performances by Kaeto Sweeney and Gitte Sætre & Frans Jacobi, video screening of Tivon Rice, and a DJ set from Jiska Huizing.

Please note that the opening will be streamed only, due to current covid-19 restriction in Bergen.

Latent City presents artistic productions dealing with the city’s hidden stories. Seen through the lens of artistic observation, latent infrastructures and questions of digital presence and of power and democracy in our cities, meet in an exhibition that takes place over three weeks. The Latent City is the city that awaits, the one that is about to unfold, our common…

See the digital presentation of the installation here. Can artistic methods be used to critically engage with present day behaviours around eating and consumption? TM:MPFP is an artistic speculation on food practices in relation to health, politics, culture and society. Food-biopolitics questions how the agency of food relates to genes, cell fragments, proteins, enzymes, bacteria and fungi and in a larger context to contemporary politics. GaraGara explores ideas related to food-biopolitics on a local and international scale.

See the digital presentation of the installation here. Maren Dagny Juell has been invited by BEK to develop a new work that takes as its departure the formidable development of technology in the last 20 years, that we address in conjunction with the 20th anniversary of BEK this year.

See the digital presentation of the installation here. Hanan Benammar has been invited by BEK to develop a new work that takes as its departure the theme of surveillance and the formidable development of technology in the last 20 years, that we address in conjunction with the 20th anniversary of BEK this year.

Zonen (2005)Pia Rönicke 16mm lm/DVD, 22:34 min. Through an indistinguishable landscape with no buildings and filled with roads that lead to nowhere, three architects wander around talking about ecology, social sustainability and architecture in urban planning. It is never really clear if the landscape they are walking through is about to be built, or a landscape of their imaginations, on which…

Environment Built for Absence (an unofficial/artificial sequel to J.G. Ballard’s “High Rise”) (2018)Tivon RiceHD video, computer-generated text, 17:45 min. In our post-digital lives, how often are experiences of urban landscapes mediated through technology? As we move through a city for the first time, the impressions are already joined by pre-existing impressions from Google Maps and cultural images of other cities,…

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…