Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

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…

Between Humans & Animals in BergenYngvild Færøy & Søssa JørgensenLive online radio broadcast (with audience) Is man the dog’s best friend? Can the urban neighborhood include plankton, rats and cows? And what do archeologists and seagulls have in common? We tilt our ears and listen to the city animal, go bone collecting into Bergen’s past and sniff into the future…

Nayara Leite will develop a performance for Latent City – Invisible Fields #1, at Bergen Kjøtt 21 November, based on her latest and ongoing project Meus Caros Amigos. The project contains a letter correspondence with 10 close friends in Brazil regarding the situation for the LGBTQ+ community since the election of the self-proclaimed homophobic president Jair Bolsonaro. This performance will…

Verdensteatret’s new performance Trust Me Tomorrow premieres during the Ultima festival in Oslo, and will be shown at Black Box Theatre 17th – 24ht September. The performance explores the experience of blindness, and is described as a free-floating performance work ranging from quiet, elegant introspection to a disturbed and fuzzy mindscape. Much of the performance’s video and audio material has…

Between April 23rd – May 10th, BEK will present a selection of projects reflecting on the technological challenges facing our current and future cities. The projects take a range of temporal and spatial formats, including single performances, workshops, an exhibition, a sound app and a video programme on loop.

Stian Ramvik at BEK is helping Sabine Popp with synchronization of video material for the upcoming exhibition Relay (how to use a ship to press the button of a camera) which opens at Visningsrommet USF on December 3. The video material forms the framework for a performance, and Popp need to easily control the synchronized videos as part of this.…

For the Vestlandsutstillingen 2019, Jiska Huizing was invited with the project Torn Tracks to create site-specific sound works for all the six places the exhibition has visited. BEK/Espen Sommer Eide has helped develop Torn Tracks, which is a digital interactive platform with different ways to search and organize the collection of tracks and sounds that form the basis of the…

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…