Stian Remvik at BEK has set up four Arun mats in the interactive installation Urban point. The installation is a 2,5 m3 large cube sprayed with graffiti, with sound from the graffiti process. The audience can turn the sound on and off by stepping on the mats. Arun mats are produced for and used as security alarms, but in the…
BEK has been a consultant in the production process and supported the exhibition It Is Only Through Your Thoughts That I Can Remember Who I Am: An Exhibition in Three Acts at Kunsthall 3.14 with equipment. The exhibition opening is Friday October 20th at 18.00. It Is Only Through Your Thoughts That I Can Remember Who I Am: An…
Touch Me Festival 2017 – The Invisible Around Us From 6th-19th October, our Future DiverCities partner, KONTEJNER, will arrange the annual Touch Me festival in Zagreb (Croatia), which focuses on innovative interventions within science, technology and art. The fifth edition is titled The Invisible Around Us, where dark matter is used as a metaphor for our limitations when it…
For Katy Penny’s exhibition CLEAR AS MUD, Stian Remvik at BEK has set up three Arun mats in the interactive installation. The audience can turn the sound on and off by stepping on the mats. Utstillingen CLEAR AS MUD utforsker grensen mellom det private og det offentlige, og er sentrert rundt kunstneren sitt lokalmiljø i Ytre Arna. Et rom i Penny sitt…
For the one-day mini-festival GJENLYD the contemporary music scene in Bergen will be celebrating local hero Morten Eide Pedersen, new music pioneer Pierre Boulez and compositional contortionist Ruben Sverre Gjertsen – whose music is famously impossible to play. Among other, you can experience Trond Lossius’ installation where he uses material that the composer, teacher and driving force in Bergen contemporary…
GUISE is Benedicte Leinan Clementsen’s first solo exhibition, opening at Prosjektrom Normanns in Stavanger Friday 12.november. There she shows a 4-channel video installation about how we relate to our pets. The work was produced, using BEK’s equipment and was set up in collaboration with Stian Remvik (BEK) with the help of the Multiscreener software.
The exhibition “Ultimo Scenario” at the old Children’s Clinic at Haukeland University Hospital, exhibits works by 15 artists which in their practices are concerned with situations and site specificity. The artists engage with themes like the building’s architectural history, materials found on the premises, sounds and images that connect to the site, and personal experiences as next of kin at the clinic.
ISPRANG is a composition of sound that transforms into light and activates a pattern of optical fibres. The installation uses the window towards the sea as a reverberating surface, so that parts of the sound can be heard from the square outside Visningsrommet.
SPRANG can be experienced February 3rd – 19th at Visningsrommet USF, in a version made especially for this room. BEK has been consultant for the sound work, and the installation has been set up with BEK’s equipment.
“For stadig å bli” is a choral piece for 15 separate voices, made by Sissel Lillebostad and Knut Vaage. The piece concerns listening and distance, and is based on a recording from a concert in Bergen Public Library, where the choir Gneis performed “For stadig å bli” for a wandering audience.
“For stadig å bli” can be heard at Lydgalleriet, and opens Friday January 20 at 19.00 The piece has been edited in BEK’s sound studio by Thorolf Thuestad.
Loud Matter is a series of interactive instruments by Marieke Verbiesen. Each installation contains a number of custom-made interfaces including touchpads, joysticks and gesture controlled devices that allow visitors to manipulate several audiovisual compositions.
Loud Matter opens at Atelier Nord ANX Thursday January 26th at 19.00, with live performance, food and DJ-set. BEK has co-produced the exhibition.