The Only Lasting Truth is Change – Voice, Seed, Brutality: Our Thanks Following BEK’s 2025 Symposium
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After insightful and inspiring days during BEK’s 2025 symposium – The Only Lasting Truth is Change: Voice, Seed, Brutality – BEK’s staff – Maya Økland, Åse Løvgren, Morten Norbye Halvorsen, Kaeto Sweeney, Arild Thomassen, Martha Lucia Stoveland and Siren Løkaas – would like to extend a warm thank you to:
The artists, researchers and thinkers who were part of the programme and entered into dialogue with the symposium’s themes: Shuruq Harb, Marwa Arsanios, Soph Dyer from Open-weather with Camille Li and Ellen Viste from the Bjerknes Centre, Carol Stampone, Mihkkal Hætta, Geert Lovink, Touki & Rehana Zaman with Daiyen Jone Castro, Nasim Mashak, Omar Itani, Jenny Berger Myhre & Niklas Adam, DJ Daeva, Russell Haswell, Lesia Vasylchenko, soso brafield, Sarah Lookofsky and Ameneh Solati.
Our collaborators: Olav Øritsland Eggestøl, Asle Bakke Brodin, Marthe Serck-Hanssen, Marius Bakke Petersen and the rest of the team at Østre; Ingrid Haug Erstad and Eirik Hunnes at Bergen Assembly. Jules Negrier and Matthias Puech from Ina GRM, Paris, for their software contributions. Nayara Leite, Duncan Marquiss, Vincent Møystad and Jennifer Garzon for their contributions to Rehana Zaman and Touki, and everyone who took part in the workshops.
Press and communications officer Emilie Blom Jamil. Producers during the symposium, Thea Haug at Bergen Assembly and Susanna Antonsson at Østre.
Papa Kofi Yirrah, who designed all the visual material for web and print. Pip Rowson for copy-editing and other text support. Aksell and A7 Print for printing posters and programmes locally and sustainably. Sara Cecilie Miran for distribution. Leo Preston from Wrap and Sandric from Amalie Skram Upper Secondary School for streaming. Photographer Nayara Leite, who documented the symposium. Hallaisen for the delicious food. BEK’s director, Maria Rusinovskaya, for preparations leading up to the symposium.
The audiences at the events – we already look forward to seeing you again in 2027!
Support from Arts Council Norway, Fritt Ord, the City of Bergen, Vestland County Council, KORO, Balansekunst and the Bergesen Foundation.
Part of New Perspectives for Action – a project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union.
Images: Photo: Nayara Leite
