Prøverommet at BEK – Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

Last Call

By Ida Blomdahl

Last Call is a performance investigating human gestures translated into mechanical movement, and tonality within everyday objects. In a restaurant 15 minutes before closing, a wine glass-quartet makes a show out of competing for the last word, assisted by a waitress that just tries to do her fucking job.  

Ida Blomdahl holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Kunstakademiet i Bergen, and works with music and sound, video, performance and installation. Her work examines contemporary phenomena and symbols drawn into familiar yet absurd scenarios, inviting technical glitches and poetic implications.  

MeeeeWE 

Bv Emma Fuchs Sjøvall

We want to belong to a we, yet we are so focused on me. Could me be we? Where does me begin and end? What if me is part of we whether me want it or not and vice versa? As a reaction to a society characterised by individualism, Bergen based artist Emma Fuchs Sjövall has created situations that explore different ways of being together. Through listening and sensory experiences, voice and body have often functioned as tools to ask what a sense of togetherness can be. After a long break, Emma returns to these themes with a slightly different approach.

Latent Liminality

By Sara Bo Lindberg Hansen

Artist Sara Bo Lindberg Hansen presents the installation Latent Liminality. The work explores sculptural forms and sound-based structures that together create a speculative space, examining themes of productive stillness, hidden potential, and possible transformation. 

Sara Bo Lindberg Hansen is from Denmark and holds an MA in Fine Arts from KMD at the Univeristy of Bergen. Through installation, sculpture, video, and sound, Sara creates structures and narratives that look at the strange, unseen, or unknown with empathy – seeking to stir curiosity for that which lies beyond the frameworks of logic. She seeks to tilt the world for just a moment, allowing it to be perceived differently by peeking beyond its boundaries into new and imagined realities. 

The project’s soundscape is made in collaboration with Jonas Særsten. 

The Centre Cannot Hold

By Andreas Tegnander

Composer and sound artist Andreas Tegnander is interested in the beauty of collapse, contrast and transformation. Each piece explores how resonance arises in tension and where dissonance lives side by side with harmony. He is drawn to raw, tactile images: bare rock breaking through soft moss, iridescent chemical veils, the worn scars of a beloved object, the hard shell with a soft core. The beauty here is not polished or obvious, but filled with layers, is alien and alive.

Andreas Tegnander is an Amsterdam-based composer and sound artist. In his practice he works with site-specific installations where sound, sculpture and architectural space merge. He explores how sound and space can create new forms of meaning and perception, through self-built instruments and architectural interventions.

Xenosphere

By Supporting Act (Kornelia Remø Klokk & Snorre Sjønøst Henriksen)

Supporting Act is like a ceremony where the ritual unfolds in different phases, and acoustic elements blend into the electronic soundscape. Disparate musical expressions and cultural references such as Memphis rap and black metal, rave culture, occultism, archaic demonology and Soviet synths are woven together to create a world that exists across from our own.

In the fall of 2023 Kornelia Remø Klokk and Snorre Sjønøst Henriksen were active in a weekly reading group that discussed the book Revolutionary Demonology, written by the anonymous collective Gruppo di Nun. Much of the conceptual, aesthetic, and musical basis for Supporting Act was created as a response to this book. The performance is time- and place-specific, which means that it is different everytime it’s performed. With Supporting Act, Henriksen and Klokk want to create a transmaterial space called the Xenosphere: a representation of absolute otherness and anti-utopia.