Julia Cremers’ performance art practice explores how our focus on productivity and efficiency not only erodes human connection and diversity, but also depletes both the human body and the planet’s ecosystems. Julia has been an active member of Berlin’s sound art space Errant Sound, co-organised the art-science collective PARALLAX Lab, taught at the HGB Leipzig and worked with Hebbel am Ufer Theater. She currently lives and works in Norway. The performance Less employs capture technologies, real time processing softwares and stage technology to help us embrace less efficiency, less productivity and less haste. The work shifts our attention from the hyper productivity of the techno-capitalist West toward sensory pleasure and a slower rhythm of life, by purposely slowing down audio-visual recordings from an organic farm.
to you they are birds, to me they are voices in the forest is a collaborative project between Cuban multidisciplinary artist Daiyen Jone and Norwegian producer/sound artist Knut Jonas Sellevold. Together they explore improvised, imaginary landscapes in the hinterlands of music, sound, and nature. The duo released their first album on cassette/digital via the Bergen-based label Vibrant Matter in May 2025 and will follow up with their second release Primordia in the fall of 2025 on Sucata Tapes, a tape-only sublabel to Discrepant Records. The two releases fuse the duo’s diverse musical backgrounds, from Cuban traditional music and ambient field recordings to 4th world electronica, and global dance music.
Andreas Aicka Thomson born 1993, is an interdisciplinary artist holding a Master of Fine Art from Bergen Academy of Art, Norway. He mainly engages in filmmaking, audio-visual installations, photography and sound design, and the occasional scent-based art, ceramics, and performative sessions. Silhouettes of Escaped Constellations, a sound and video installation, a bodily narration of shadows upon silhouettes, a dream of constellations traversing, cosmic lands a wobbly ground, and those who moved to touch echoes of celestial objects, fatigued by shining brightly.
Olaf Knarvik works as a photo archivist at the Picture Collection at the University Library of Bergen and has background as an artist and photographer. He participated in Prøverommet in 1999 and 2024 with slide shows. Olaf Knarvik will show slides and video from ongoing archival work with a newly discovered collection of photos and films related to UNRWA/Palestine in the 1960s. Photographer Rolf Schoder was the head of information for UNRWA 1963-66.
fake wizard band consists of Mathilde Zeuthen, Jo Norgreen and Ísabella Katarína Márusdóttir who are from Denmark and Iceland. The band was formed two years ago at the Art Academy of Bergen and has yet to produce any music. No jamming has taken place, no lyrics have been written, no music is made; only talks about all this not to mention talks about merch and potential costumes to wear on a hypothetical stage. Prøverommet on the 20th of October will be their debut concert.
