We have the pleasure of presenting projects in the context of Latent City online at bek.no during the exhibition 12 – 29 November. Please find them all here.
As part of the exhibition Latent City, a video programme is shown with contributions by artists Aleksander Johan Andreassen, Aske Thiberg, Jonas Ersland, Pia Rönicke, Stephen Connolly and Tivon Rice. As the current guidelines for the infection situation in Bergen do not allow the public to be physically present at Bergen Kjøtt, we are very happy to be able to share…
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…
Anders Rubing’s presentation will reflect on the video programme within the Latent City exhibition, taking a cue from his ongoing research at the Center for Women and Gender Research (SKOK) at the University of Bergen. Rubing’s research aims to unpack how visions of different urban futures are produced by urban security and resilience discourses, with a focus on dimensions relating…
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.
This presentation was live streamed Saturday 14 November from Bergen Kjøtt. The recording will be available here up until and including 29 November.
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…