What do women talk about behind closed doors?
For one year now, 15 women in Bergen have shared personal experiences about relationships, gender and identity. At Agalausfestivalen in Voss, the women themselves premier edited abstracts from these talks.
nyMusikk invites you on a sound excursion to the high-end speaker factory SEAS in Moss, starting with a bus ride from Oslo that includes a literary lecture on sound by UK musician, author and critic David Toop. The anechoic chamber at SEAS features a sound installation by Trond Lossius, and in the factory space, vocalist and composer Stine Janvin Motland will demonstrate a new measuring and musical instrument that detects and regenerates body frequencies
Static theatre is a new type of theatre researched and experimented on by Jingyi Wang. She looks at the collaboration between visual arts, electronic arts and theatre, but also the boundary between exhibition and performance in an attempt to seek out the theatre’s essence as an art form. BEK has developed hardware and contributed with artistic and practical advisory. Performances at Studio USF 3. May at 15:00, 17:00 and 19:00
Material Vision – Silent Reading is a film and series of prints by Espen Sommer Eide, based on the creation of new musical instruments and a performance developed on Bear Island. Exhibition opening at Trykkeriet, and filmscreening at Landmark.
Rural Reading Room is a series of collective actions that aim at reconfiguring objects, materials and sounds, highlighting the materiality of the landscape. The format consists of a tabletop, where the arrangement of objects placed on the table reconstruct a fragmented, concrete and material landscape.
BEK supported the project with equipment.
In celebration of the love of the electronic arts, Salongen presented an exciting evening filled with the rare combination of art, music and science. The premiere of Our Resilient Genome, an animated science film by Pina Kingman, was screened along with a house DJ set by internationally acclaimed DJ Eddie Da Bass.
Hospice Lazy is a new collaboration between the Alpaca Ensemble and Bergen-based British composer Alwynne Pritchard. BEK has supported the project with rehearsal space and equipment.
The Sonic Game Space project by BEK exists from an Exhibition, Workshops, Presentations and Liveperformances, and shows works by a group of artists that are connected trough their work in early game console art. This upcoming Thursday the Sonic Game Space exhibition will open at Lydgalleriet, in Østre Hus for Lydkunst from kl. 19:00
Frihetens forpost er et bestillingsverk av Signe Lidén. Produsert med støtte fra BKH-stipend fra Hordaland kunstsenter, og ytterligere støttet av BEK. Forestillingen på Laksevåg Verft er del av utstillingen The Structure and Properties of Matter ved Hordaland kunstsenter.
In addition to Warp and Weft, BEK contributed to a fue more events at the Borealis festival this year.