The Only Lasting Truth is Change 2025: Detailed programme
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The Only Lasting Truth is Change aims to be a thinking-in-process symposium, investigating how artistic practice and its methodologies are constantly changing in response to the shifting political, technological and ecological landscapes we live in.
With contributions from: Shuruq Harb, Marwa Arsanios, Open-weather, Carol Stampone, Mihkkal Hætta, Geert Lovink, Touki & Rehana Zaman, Nasim Mashak, Omar Itani, Jenny Berger Myhre & Niklas Adam, DJ Daeva, Russell Haswell, Lesia Vasylchenko, soso brafield and Ameneh Solati.
Image: Russell Haswell Photo: Rachel Deakin
Wednesday – Thursday 19–20 November
10:00-15:00 and 10:00-18:00 Workshop at BEK
Workshop with Russell Haswell: Stochastic Sublimation (Beyond Formal and Structural Production of electronic sound in an age of increasing chaos and disorder)
Place: Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts. Sign-up required.
Friday 21 November
10:00–16:30 Workshop at BEK
Workshop with Open-weather: How To Read A Storm
Place: Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts. Sign up by November 14.
Image: Photo: Omar Itani
Friday 21 November
18:00–01:00 Bergen Storsenter and Østre
Free entry. The programme will be streamed live on vimeo.com/bekdotno
Bergen Storsenter
18:00 Rats, and other downtrodden subjects: Performance by Omar Itani. NB! Not streamed
The tunnel by Lille Lungegårdsvannet, between Bergen Storsenter and Byparken
Østre
18:30 Doors open
19:00 Introduction by the curators
19:15 Gneiss: an extended live performance by Touki and Rehana Zaman with Daiyen Jone Castro NB! Not streamed
20:30 Sound of my luggage: Audiovisual performance by Nasim Mashak
21:00 Three notes on political animals: Audiovisual essay by Marwa Arsanios NB! Not streamed
22:00 Whispers of Reindeer Milk (2023): Film screening by Mihkkal Hætta
22:30 Phloem Sap: Concert by Jenny Berger Myhre and Niklas Adam
23:30 DJ set by DJ Daeva
Image: NOAA-18 received on 3 June 2025 at 12:36 by an Automatic Ground Station operated by artist Alison Scott at Hospitalfield in Arbroath, Scotland. Photo: Open-weather
Saturday 22 November
13:00–22:00 Bergen Assembly
Free entry. The programme will be streamed live on vimeo.com/bekdotno
13:00 Doors open and lunch
14:00 Introduction by the curators
14:15 How to Read a Storm: Presentations and conversation on satellite imagery by Open-weather & the Bjerknes Centre
15:15 Platform Brutality: Lecture by Geert Lovink
16:00 Chronesthetic Wound: Artist talk by Lesia Vasylchenko
17:00 Conversation between Marwa Arsanios, Shuruq Harb, and Omar Itani, lead by Sarah Lookofsky
18:15 On Change, Time and the Burnout Society: A performative lecture or participatory poem by Carol Stampone
19:45 Conflict Grains: Dinner by soso brafield. Sign up required. NB! Not streamed
Image: Shuruq Harb, In the Presence of Absence, 2025
Sunday 23 November
13:00–20:00 Østre
13:00 Doors open and lunch
14:00 Introduction by the curators
14:15 Wetlands Beyond Water: Performance lecture by Ameneh Solati
15:30 In the Presence of Absence: Live Performance by Shuruq Harb
16:00 Muorra (2024): Film screening and artist presentation by Mihkkal Hætta
17:00 Conversation between Shuruq Harb and Mihkkal Hætta
17:45 Live concert with workshop participants and Russell Haswell
The symposium is organised by BEK with support from Arts Council Norway, Fritt Ord Foundation, City of Bergen, Vestland County Council, KORO, Balansekunst and The Bergesen Foundation. This year will be the fourth edition of the symposium.
The project is part of New Perspectives for Action; a project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union.
Curators: Maya Økland, Åse Løvgren, and Morten Norbye Halvorsen
Production: Kaeto Sweeney, Susanna Antonsson and Thea Haug
Communications: Siren Løkaas and Emilie Blom Jamil
Graphic Design: Papa Kofi Yirrah
