Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

Touki and Rehana Zaman present a layering of sound, film excerpts, and discussion drawn from their ongoing collaborative film project commissioned by BEK. Responding to the question What is Change?, the presentation intertwines collective reflection and artistic process, weaving together voices, fragments, and perspectives that explore transformation through dialogue and solidarity. The presentation will also include the premiere of Gargantas: Selected Footprints Form an Island Afar by Daiyen Jone Castro.

An extended live performance
Friday
November 21. 19.15
Østre
Østre Skostredet 3
Free and open to all
NB! Not streamed

Touki and Rehana Zaman will present a layering of fragments – sounds, film excerpts and discussion emerging from a collaborative film project in process, commissioned by BEK, that responds to the question What is Change?

The presentation will also include the premiere of Gargantas: Selected Footprints Form an Island Afar by Daiyen Jone Castro.
It is an act of listening across waters. A cartography of echoes that maps what is left
unsaid, unheard, or carried away in many voices.
Each footprint is a sound-mark, a testimony to how history reverberates through presence
and distance.
A composition that moves between sonic documentary and abstraction, reflecting how
Cuban history oscillates through myth and memory.
The artist stands as both spectator and witness, guided by the visceral power and
symbolism of sound — the voices of Gargantas.
Geographical… Atemporal… Emotional… Sonic documentary… Tropical… Spiritual…
Political… Dystopian… Ideological… Historical… Mythical… Ancestral… Resonant…
Memory.
This is a multichannel installation and live performance where sound, spoken word, and
musical performance unify.

TOUKI

Touki is an independent organisation that works to engage more young minorities, especially black youths, in the arts and politics. The organisation is a platform that highlights black voices in the arts and works for an anti-capitalist, anti-patriarchal, anti-racist and decolonised world. Touki runs the organisation based on volunteerism, community building and a willingness to make a difference in society.

Toukis’ goal is to establish a separate space for black artists, freed from the white gaze. A space where we can experience art without having to justify the black perspectives, and where the black artists’ work can exist and be appreciated on its own terms without being filtered through a white lens. Touki wants increased representation of perspectives from people of color, especially the black perspective in the Norwegian art world, and an art scene that is more inclusive and diverse.

REHANA ZAMAN

Rehana Zaman is an artist living and working in London. Her work speaks to notions of kinship and sociality, seeking out possibilities of intimacy and transgression within hostile contexts. Conversation and cooperative methods sit at the heart of her films which extend into texts, performances and group work. Zaman has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally. Recent presentations include Serpentine Civic, BFI London Film Festival, Tromsø Kunstforening, BEK, British Art Show 9 (Touring), ICA Miami, Trinity Square Video in Toronto, Borås International Sculpture Biennial and Artists’ Film International Whitechapel (International Touring). In 2019 she co-edited Tongues with Taylor Le Melle. In 2023 she was the winner of the Film London Jarman Award. She is a member of not/nowhere artist workers cooperative and her films are distributed by LUX.

Touki and Rehana Zaman stand in support of Palestinian struggles for liberation and against genocide, apartheid and colonialism.

Daiyen Jone Castro

Daiyen Jone Castro is a Cuban-born multidisciplinary artist, musician, composer,
performer, and ceramist whose practice unfolds at the intersection of sound, ceramics, and
performance.
Trained in classical flute and jazz, her journey began in music and gradually expanded into
a broader exploration of sound as material, symbol, and memory.
Based in Bergen and pursuing an MFA at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design
(KMD), Daiyen investigates how clay and sound can converse — shaping one another in a
cyclical act of resonance.
Her current research reimagines different sonic possibilities through modern technologies,
proposing a decolonial poetics rooted in intuition, presence, and meaning — where matter
listens, vibrates, and remembers.
Her work integrates improvisation, field recording, electronics, and the body to create
immersive spaces that bridge the ancestral and the contemporary, drawing from her Afro-
Cuban and Caribbean heritage and personal experiences.

Accessibility

The ground floor has step-free access from street level. The entrance doors to the ground floor are 90 cm wide.
The first floor can be reached via an internal staircase or step-free access using the internal lift.
Assistance from staff is required to operate the lift, so we encourage you to let us know in advance if you would like to use it.
Østre’s toilets are all-gender. Accessible toilet facilities are available on the ground floor.
For further questions regarding Østre’s accessibility, please contact post@oestre.no

Return to the detailed symposium programme.

BEK symposium
The Only Lasting Truth is Change: Voice, Seed, Brutality
21–23 November
Bergen, Norway

Image: Rehana Zaman and Touki workshop in Nesbyen. Photo: Maya Økland/BEK