An audiovisual performance, a concert of sounds and images will take place at BEK today at 8PM. The instruments are recorders and speakers, cameras and projectors. The game is ambience and narration and the players are Piya Wanthiang, Mathijs van Geest and Tolga Balci together with Morten Minothi Kristiansen and Josh Ginsberg from “Edge of Wrong”.
After an intensive working period the project A Dip in the Lake will be shown on 6th and 7th of December at Cornerteateret. The work is based on soundrecordings from in and around Bergen and video.BEK has supported the project with equipment and working space.
The object becomes the plane, the light will be given to the darkness, the silence reflects sound.
Overgangen, is an exploration of the distance between black and white, between light and darkness. We close ourselves in, in one of Bergen’s historic chambers and drape the windows.
-on demographies of uproar and the production of place
Program:
The film Blåtur will premiere 12. April at the Bergen cinema. Audiodesign for the film is done in BEK’s studio by Thorolf Thuestad and Knut Vaage.
EDGE OF WRONG 2013 presents first found, then lost, a residency / tour from Oslo via Bergen to Reykjavik, with the South African artist Josh Ginsburg and the Norwegian musician Morten Minothi Kristiansen. BEK is one of several supporters of the project and organize a workshop with a performance on Tuesday 8 October.
Tuesday 19th of March Jazz Improv band Bly de Blyant will celebrate the release of their album “ABC” with a concert at Landmark Bergen Kunsthall, teaming up with improv visualist Marieke Verbiesen during the evening “Playdate”
BEK is working with the great artists, Christine Istad and Lisa Pacini, on welcoming the sun to Bergen. The sun is arriving at 14.30 pm tomorrow, the 22th of February with Hurtigruta…
On Thursday 14. February at 20:00 Elisabeth Færøy Lund do the performance Let’s Dance – the Valentine Blind Date. As part of the After School Special’s Live Screen Evening at Landmark, all performances will be streamed online from various places in and outside Bergen.
Ny Musikk Bergen explores some possible alternatives to the contemporary opera, which generally follows the same conventions as classical opera is based on. Through a collective experiment, Lohengrin by Salvatore Sciarrino is staged in an unconventional manner, stripped of romantic conservatism. BEK has contributed with production facilities, equipment, studio facilities and as a sparring partner.