Prøverommet at Landmark

Liquid – studies on water and other transformations 

By Késia Decoté  

“We all begin life in water in the womb. Our origins are in water, in pregnant bodies, being carried and growing life for nine months in amniotic fluid—the same water that is in the lake whose shores I walk” – Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Theory of Water 

Through video, intimate field recordings and toy piano performance, Késia Decoté reflects on her experience of motherhood, also exploring dialogues with sounds and rhythms of nature – the flow of the waters of her body, the flow of bodies of water in our world. 

Késia Decoté is a Brazilian pianist and toy pianist based in Bergen. Her work focuses on contemporary music, interdisciplinary performance and improvisation. Késia is particularly interested in reimagining how piano music is presented, creating innovative artistic experiences for her audience. Késia recently completed her postdoctoral research at the University of Bergen as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fellow, investigating new models for the participation of women and girls in classical music performance. 

On toy piano, music by Diana Blom, Carson Cooman, citations of Berio, Southam and Ligeti, and improvisations.

Debts and Other Blessings
Ivy Locks Cling 

By Eleni Ieremia 

Visual artist Eleni Ieremia shows a teaser from the first chapter of Debts and Other Blessing – a three-chapter experimental documentary. The documentary is set in Athens during a period of rapid gentrification, urban redevelopment, and social transformation. Neighborhoods are facing systematic changes driven by real estate speculation, demolition, and increased police securitisation. The film explores everyday acts of resistance and solidarity alongside the political and economic forces behind displacement. The completed three-chapter work will be presented as part of Ieremia’s solo exhibition Debts and Other Blessings at BLOKK in December 2026. 

Ivy Locks Cling is an ongoing series of photographs and drawings based on Eleni Ieremia’s mobile phone images, which are printed, transformed into collages, and scanned using a Xerox machine. The motifs depict keyholes and lockboxes linked to Airbnb and short-term rentals in Athens and Bergen. The works function as visual diary entries, mapping traces of change in urban spaces where property speculation, tourism, and temporary forms of housing reshape everyday city life. The series is part of a larger project connected to the video work Debts and Other Blessings. 

Eleni Ieremia (GR/SE) is a visual artist based in Bergen. Her practice explores social and material structures, everyday rituals, labor, rest, and power dynamics. 

Red Cartography. The Fish That Dreamed Me First  

By Daiyen Jone 

Every transformation begins when the ideal is shed and previously unseen parts of the self begin to emerge. A path that was never mapped or named unfolds.  

Red Cartography. The Fish That Dreamed Me First is an interdisciplinary performance exploring internal transitions as a poetic and sensory journey. The work emerges from a dream vision in which a red fish functions as an archetypal guide through states of change, memory, and displacement.  

Daiyen Jone is an interdisciplinary artist born in Cuba and based in Bergen. Her practice moves between sound, ceramics, and performance, exploring presence, connection, spirituality, mysticism, erotism, memory and resonance. Working with improvisation and embodied knowledge, her work draws on her Afro-Cuban heritage and personal experience.  

Gulpar opp og tygg på nytt  

By RUIN (Ingeborg Meyer Lysne & Runa Skjeldal)

The stage is round. The stage is round. A woman, with a violin wrapped in aluminum foil, sits in the middle. She sits on a stool, round, wrapped in aluminum foil. She is wearing a small nightgown. Her hair is pulled away from her face. You can see her face. Waiting. She knows who is coming. She knows who will soon enter the stage. The round room. With her back to the audience, Emilie enters. In a turquoise nightgown, in dark sweatpants. In her left hand: a plastic bag. She is carrying her plastic bag. 

Gulpar opp og tygg på nytt (spit up and chew again) focuses on materiality, body, movement and words, and how these can be connected. A trauma must be worked through via body and words – fragments of tactile details.  

The artist duo RUIN consists of writer Runa Skjeldal and actor Ingeborg Meyer Lysne. A ruin is what remains as a fragment of something that has been. The performance is the ruin of the process. Both Lysne and Skjeldal are curious about slowness, and that at the core of simplicity lies complexity.  

The project is supported by Proscen and Arts and Culture Norway.