The VUMA collective has developed a new iteration of the geo-triggered audio app VUMA Soner, which will be presented as part of the exhibition The Ocean at Bergen Kunsthall opening on 28 August 2021. In the form of a guided tour, a racialised Bergenser tells local histories, using the moving in and out of Bergen via the sea as a departure point…
We are reopening our studios and spaces for short term project residencies at BEK. If you are working on an art project involving sound, moving image or electronics you are welcome to apply for a residency in one of our studios for a period of 2-4 weeks. The residencies are open to professional artists and we prioritise projects that are experimental in their use of technology, or interrogate its relationship to art and society. We offer our facilities and equipment, and expect artists to work independently, however Studio Residents are also able to apply for advice sessions with our in-house experts to help with specific project needs.
During her work residency at BEK, singer and composer Hilde Annine Hasselberg will prepare audio material for the project Et lite barn (A Little Child); a concert that draws parallels between the Christmas gospel and the current refugee crisis. The sound material will mainly be developed in Ableton Live with the use of natural sounds related to the story being told in the work. During the concert, this sound material will function both as an audible backdrop and as an instrument that Hasselberg can use live on stage.
During their work residency at BEK, Emilie Wright has been working in the sound studio composing and recording new works for immersive listening. The culmination of their work in progress, Serpent and the Egg, will be a multichannel composition of sonic fiction that incorporates improvised found objects, vocal arrangements, field recordings and synthesisers.
Etchings of coastal sites is an interdisciplinary collaboration between Andrea Urstad ToftCraig T. Wells, Omar E. Johnsen, and Stian Remvik. The project will excavate certain rural sites of western Norway, and through the processes of montage, collage and cinematic time lapsing where the artists will focus on the notion of accelerating time image and disjointed scene transitions.
We are reopening our studios and spaces for short term project residencies at BEK. If you are working on an art project involving sound, moving image or electronics you are welcome to apply for a residency in one of our studios for a period of 2-4 weeks. The residencies are open to professional artists and we prioritise projects that are experimental in their use of technology, or interrogate its relationship to art and society. We offer our facilities and equipment, and expect artists to work independently, however Studio Residents are also able to apply for advice sessions with our in-house experts to help with specific project needs.
Please join us for a presentation by Karen Werner, an artist currently doing a work residence at BEK from her own home. Set up outside of Skottegaten 20, this will be a live radio broadcast and street party!
Karen Werner is doing a Work Residency at BEK – from home. In her dining room she has set up a SkottegatenFM transmission point from where she is transmitting daily and is helping interested neighbours broadcast from their homes. SkottegatenFM is a three-month micro-FM radio station transmitting at 88.6FM from homes on Skottegaten and surrounding streets in Nordnes. Anyone in listening range can tune in!
At their Work Residency at BEK, Hedén will develop a soundscape, deepen their knowledge and produce new material as well as mixing a line of finite compositions for the project Inner Beings. In collaboration with singer and composer Agnes Whizdalek, they will explore the use of voice in techno music and record samples that will be processed and integrated in Hedén’s sound world.
During the work residency at BEK, Kim Hankyul will develop a new body of work for the upcoming solo show at Gyldenpris Kunsthall later in the autumn 2021. In the project, analogue sound plates will be scrutinized as physical bodies with literary scenery, each of which has a potential of storing a narrative in the format of physical projection and…