Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

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…

Edgelands (2019)Trond LossiusElectroacoustic composition (3rd order Ambisonic) for multichannel loudspeaker array Trond Lossius · Edgelands (binaural headphone version) Edgelands starts from a series of field recordings from the suburbs and fringes of the city. These zones are critical as urban infrastructures, residential areas and for transport and industry. Still, they come across as bland, banal, and anonymous, haphazardly developed and…

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…

Read www.ShowMeLove here! Throughout the ages, man has sought together in community. For love, for friendship, for getting the job done, for building society. This time is no exception. We seek together more than ever, but the community of our time is ambivalent. Everyone wants to be seen, everyone can see – and everyone keeps their thoughts to themselves.

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…