In their two week work residency at BEK, Laurie Lax and Lucila Mayol will be working on a teaser of Archaeological Fiction: Sagfjordbotn (AF:S) – an Interactive Fiction with sound, based on the remote fjord of Sagfjordbotn in Nordland. The teaser will focus on a portion of material they collected in July, and give a tangible sense of the look…
Welcome to the opening of You Will Meet a Bird with Strange Feet by Ayatgali Tuleubek. The exhibition will be shown at Aldea Gallery 26th September – 25th October, and is the result of Tuleubeks artist in residence at Aldea and BEK.
Craig Wells currently works at BEK with no less than seven collaborative projects, ranging from live modular synthesis, to improvisation, sound design and composition. Many of the projects can be experienced by audiences in Bergen during the autumn, and in December Wells will give a presentation of his practice at BEK.
We are very happy to have Ayatgali Tuleubek in our studios these weeks, who have been invited to Bergen in a collaboration between Aldea, Hordaland Art Centre and BEK. Earlier this summer, he was one of the tutors at Hordaland Art Centre’s Summer Academy, and at the end of September, the work currently being developed at BEK will be shown in Aldea’s…
Marije Baalman is currently writing a book on mapping: how can gestures through the use of sensors and controllers, computational processing be translated to output media, such as sound, light and video. Her motivation comes from her own artistic work, where the topic of mapping has played a core part since 2001, when she started building her first digital musical instrument,…
“A Musical Love Letter” is a combined music and video work where a letter is being created; both musically performed by oboe, clarinet, saxophone and percussion, and as a video where the letter slowly emerges as a picture. The music closely follows the gestures of the fountain pen as it moves on the paper. At BEK, Rebecka Ahvenniemi will pre-film video,…
During his Work Residency at BEK Mathias Loose will investigate MIDI-libraries in collaboration with Craig Wells (sound-artist), Lorie Ballage (sculpture and singer) and Samuel Brzeski (visual artist and poet). Throughout the week they will investigate and create sample-libraries. Collectively they will find and make examples, converse and trying out plug-ins, and go into foley/field recording mode to collect and extract…
In her new project for Volt, which will take the form as a performance and an exhibition, Nora Joung uses legal documents from 1982 as a starting point to examine a court ruling which determined that it’s not illegal for politicians to break promises made to their voters. At BEK Joung will record and mix voiceover for a video work,…
Welcome to this presentation of video work and research leading up to the production of the installation “Mapping Smart Futures (MSF)” by KairUs at BEK Thursday 28th from 18.00
Erin Sexton will be in residence at BEK September 2nd – 15th with her project Contingency Planning in collaboration with dance artist Yohei Hamada. Formatted as a 2-day workshop September 10th and 12th and exhibition/happening event September 13th, this is an open-structure exploration of sci-fi strategies, collective movement, and metaphysical sculpture.