During their work residency at BEK, Emilie Wright has been working in the sound studio composing and recording new works for immersive listening. The culmination of their work in progress, Serpent and the Egg, will be a multichannel composition of sonic fiction that incorporates improvised found objects, vocal arrangements, field recordings and synthesisers.
Etchings of coastal sites is an interdisciplinary collaboration between Andrea Urstad ToftCraig T. Wells, Omar E. Johnsen, and Stian Remvik. The project will excavate certain rural sites of western Norway, and through the processes of montage, collage and cinematic time lapsing where the artists will focus on the notion of accelerating time image and disjointed scene transitions.
Is dance a universal language? Rita Maria Muñoz is researching this question and invites you to a special performance experiment where you will be able to experience the movements, thoughts and silences of the performance. As a spectator you are welcomed and allowed a place to question and ponder what dance is, what it is to you, and if dance is a universal language.
BEK welcomes you to the live programme Latent City – Invisible Fields #2 that will deal with issues related to climate, ecology and how we live together with animals, nature and each other. The way we organise ourselves in a city or in a society is thrown into sharp relief when taking unexpected perspectives, like the viewpoint of a dead…
Welcome to Latent City – Invisible Fields #1, a programme that brings issues raised in the exhibition Latent City into dialogue through performances, talks, presentations and more. The programme will be live streamed, and through Zoom you can participate with your questions and omments. Details below. Latent City – Invisible Fields #1 on Saturday 21 November 14:00 – 18:00 live…
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…
Hertzian Field #2Stelios ManousakisPerformance: introduction and recording Today, the Earth’s atmosphere has an electromagnetic double: the infosphere. We live engulfed in radio fields, moving through invisible strata as real as the air we breathe. Beyond carrying our data, telecommunications have a side effect: they sense our presence as our bodies absorb, reflect and refract their emissions. Unbeknownst to us, our…
Virtual Ritual (2019) by Jan MocekRecording of performance, 70 min. Virtual Ritual takes its spectators on a journey through the cities created in online video games, that form a kind of parallel universe to daily reality. These virtual spaces offer its users endless possibilities to enjoy themselves without the constraints of harsh reality. But every game has its rules. In…
Are You Ready?Frans Jacobi and Gitte SætrePerformance, video, online TV-series I am a dead tree from the Norwegian woods on a journey into the world of humans. My name is “The Living Unliving Surveillance Poet”, and every full moon I report back to nature through a very special tele channel on the world wide web, due to all species’ needing…