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…
FirebirdAnders Hannevold, Juan Qin, Teresa Prati and Parsa Shomali Audio visual performance Firebird is a multimedia project that includes live performance and audio/visual arts. This project is generated by the usage of paper. The first layer of the performance deals with the different qualities, possibilities, and boundaries of this material. Further layers reveal subtopics in the work such as destruction…
First kiss before anything onceKaeto SweeneyMultimedia performance Kaeto´s work shapes itself around the different ways stories are told and received, stories that belong simultaneously to personal and societal perspectives. He practices this interest within performance, film and installation as part of an ongoing project called I seem to live. With the use of projectors and green screens as both technological…