BEK will go on summer holiday from 29th June to 3rd August. Booking of our studios and other facilities will be closed during the period. Those of you who already have an agreement to work here, are welcome to do so. In light of recent important anti-fascist social action, we will also commit ourselves. At BEK we will be listening…
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Last year’s Future DiverCities LAB at BEK! We used the seminar Survival Kit for the Age of Technology in 2018 as our point of departure, and invited a number of artists, creatives and experts to co-create a real Survival Kit for Age of Technology – in the form of a video book. The result was released in a video screening, open for the public at BEK on Saturday June 15th…
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For the final production of the four year collaboration with Future DiverCites, BEK wants proposals for art projects that relate to ‘The City’.
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Our new Project Developer at BEK Åse Løvgren and Director Lars Ove Toft will participate in Future DiverCities’ partner meeting in Liepaja, Latvia, September 25 – 27. We look forward to introducing Åse to the other partners and involving her in this big EU cooperation. Future DiverCities is entering its final phase, and in Liepaja plans for a comprehensive art…
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What would you take with you in a “survival kit” for the age of technology? How can we imagine and act for the future? How can we act in everyday life, here and now? After a week’s LAB at BEK in June 2019, we are proud to give you our two suggestions for a survival kit: A video book co-created…
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During the week of June 10 – 16th, it is time for another Future DiverCities LAB at BEK! We will use last year’s seminar Survival Kit for the Age of Technology as our point of departure, and have invited a number of artists, creatives and experts to co-create a Survival Kit for Age of Technology – in the form of a video book. The result will be released in a…
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An important part of BEK’s collaboration with the partners in Future DiverCities is to give artists the opportunities to develop art projects, show their work and build a professional network. To the International week at Savonia University of Applied Science in Kuopio, we are sending Katrine Meisfjord, whose art practice focuses on dialogue and participation. As part of the one…
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The two artists Jiska Huizing and Mathias Loose was part of our Croatian partner Kontejner’s lab from 21st – 31st of January 2019. The lab invited international artists with special focus on performance and media art, and the selection was curated by the partners in Future DiverCities. During a total of 10 days, the artistic team visited Zagreb and Rijeka.
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Anne Marthe Dyvi, Artistic Developer at BEK, is participating in Norwegian Arts Council’s conference Kultur over grenser (Culture Across Borders) Thursday January 24th. The conference is a meeting place for everyone who wants to learn more about international cultural collaborations, and who wants to develop a project and/or meet potential partners.
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Arts Council Norway invites to an information meeting and project workshop on the Creative Europe-programme, which provides support for collaboration and exchange between European arts- and culture agents. As part of the programme, our Director Anne Marthe Dyvi will talk about the Future DiverCites-project that BEK is a partner in, and about the project’s experience with Creative Europe. See the…
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