Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

Erin Sexton will be in residence at BEK September 2nd – 15th with her project Contingency Planning in collaboration with dance artist Yohei Hamada. Formatted as a 2-day workshop September 10th and 12th and exhibition/happening event September 13th, this is an open-structure exploration of sci-fi strategies, collective movement, and metaphysical sculpture.

Imaginalia revisited s a poetic and musical work where our relationship to nature lies at the core, and where it is generated new connections and liminal experiences between image and sound – between the visible and the invisible. Espen Sommer Eide has been working with Imaginalia revisited at BEK, and the exhibition will be opening at Lydgalleriet Friday August 16th…

The exhibition Cataract by Vilde Salhus Røed at Visningsrommet USF revolves around some inherited negative roll films that once were exposed, but have been sitting undeveloped in the cartridges for decades. The title piece Cataract was developed at BEK earlier this winter during a work residency, and it is BEK’s equipment that is used in the playback of this sound…

Jiska Huizing has been invited with her project Torn Tracks to make site specific works for each of the 6 exhibition places in Vestlandsutstillingen 2019, We are the places. The first piece, Torn Tracks #14 – Ålesund (3-7 October 2018), will be presented at the opening at Kunstmuseet KUBE in Ålesund Friday February 8th, where Huzing also will do a…

Bjørg Taranger’s project Det hvite toget (The White Train) is a video installation projected onto the large windows in Kunstgarasjen. BEK has been consultant during the development of the project, Lars Ove Toft has set up the sound and the media players in the exhibition space, and Stian Remvik has mapped the videos onto the many window surfaces by using MadMapper.

Line Horneland has been working at BEK with Innimellom er lyden stille, both in the sound studio and in the project room. BEK has been advising the development of the work, which is now shown at Lydgalleriet.

The exhibition The Poacher’s Dream by Eleanor Clare og Dillan Marsh consist of multiple channels of sound and video – spoken and sung narratives that unfold as one moves through the space. BEK has been advising the duo while they were developing the project, and has contributed with technical equipment for the production of the work and for the exhibition at Visningsrommet USF.

Freja Bäckman’s project I was told I chop wood like a ballet dancer is now on view as a sound and video installation at Hordaland Art Centre, a project that in April appeared as a concert in the forms of a performance and an installation at District Berlin. Bäckman was artist in residency at USF Verftet in Bergen during the spring…

I Have Left You the Mountain is currently at view in the exhibition Metamorphoses – Let Everything Happen to You at Castello di Rivoli in Turin, curated by Chus Martínez. I Have Left You the Mountain presents ten new texts written by contemporary writers and thinkers on the architecture of displacement. These texts have been set to music and sung by some of…

Anne Cecilie Lie’s master project is based upon a network of entangled habitats woven together in multiple sound walks through the campus of the University of Life Sciences (NMBU) at Ås, in combination with a series of deadwood sculptures, placed in the surrounding landscape. The work is presented in collaboration with Vitenparken Campus Ås. BEK has been advising the development…