Tapage, aka Tijs Ham, will perform his new audiovisual setup Ecdysis at Landmark on the 5th of May. He has been working on this project during the period when the MOD/ALL workshops was happening at BEK.
Freja Bäckman’s I was told I chop wood like a ballet dancer is a concert in the forms of a performance and an installation, that will take place at District Berlin April 30th. Bäckman was artist in residency at USF Verftet earlier this year, and was working on this project during her stay. BEK has been supporting the development of…
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…
The artistic research project Blind Spot investigates a sensory phenomenon at the gravitational center of all material knowledge. The project researches the implications of the “blind spot” to artists in the visual and performing arts concerned with the implications of perception in human experience and society. The term “blind spot” stems from medical research into the optics of the eye. “The…
ord, word, Wort & land, land, Land. The words are (almost) identical. ord/word/Wort & land/land/Land is part concert, part performing arts. Through music, text, and video Eva Pfitzenmaier recounts her own experiences and observations from two societies, two countries, and three languages. How are they connected and how do they differ from each other? The performance is a co-production between…
During Borealis, Signe Lidén and Espen Sommer Eide present a new work utilizing a series of mobile meteorological music instruments and performative microphones. Using Fjell festning as a place, they investigate how sound is shaped by, and resonates in various environments.
The work is developed at BEK, and commissioned by Sonic Acts and Dark Ecology.
Facing us on stage: a musician. He plays electronica. Works his machines like a hacker. But we can see him much better on screen. There, reality is different, and constantly changing.
The performance is co-produced by BEK, with BIT Teatergarasjen. A version was also shown at Oktoberdans 2016.
Did you miss The Table Turns during Oktoberdans 2016, or want to see the performance again? On January 28 og 19 you have the chance to see it at Wrap!
Karen Eide Bøen and Roar Sletteland have created a dance performance for four turntables and a dancer, where they examine the relationship between body, sound, turntables and room. The Table Turns is about freedom and power on the dance floor. It’s about LPs, stored movement, solidified vibrations and sound that revived matter.
Wings and Chains is a collaboration between the composer Mansoor Hosseini and the visual artist Line Hvoslef, inspired by Igor Stravinsky’s piece Firebird. The music is complimented by a video projection and a solo dancer on the stage, and reflects the fairytale of the ballet.
Hvoslef’s video is filmed with BEK’s equipment, and is edited with counseling by and at BEK.
Using a series of virtual images, platforms, passive and active work of art, the audience in this performance gets the opportunity to explore physical and virtual presence. The performance is also displayed in two “rooms”, namely a classic black box, a theater, and a white cube, a gallery, where the audience itself determines its time and location in front of the work.
BEK has been advisory in developing the project and has set up the audio playback system.