BEK x Ekko presents part 5 of the Symposium "The Only Lasting Truth is Change", with concerts and performances by Rian Treanor, Jenny Berger Myhre, Samuel Brzeski & Inish.

Saturday 20 November 21:00 CET – Østre, Østre Skostredet 3

Free entrance with registration at ticketco.events. Tickets at the door: 100,-

21:00 Doors open
21:30 Samuel Brzeski: “Yep, that´s the mood.” (performance)
22:00 Jenny Berger Myhre (performance)
23:00 Rian Treanor: Inter-symmetric Workshop BEK (concert)
24:00 Inish (hybrid DJ set)

THE ONLY LASTING TRUTH IS CHANGE
Borrowing its title from the seminal science fiction writer Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower, The Only Lasting Truth is Change employs the lenses of Digitalisation, Time, and Justice to examine the potentiality of art practice in an ever-changing world. Together with artists and scholars, the symposium asks what an artwork can be and what an artwork can do in a world that cannot and should not return to ‘normal’ post-pandemic; that is plagued by the climate crisis and social injustice; and is wrestling with the yet-unknown challenges of rapid technological development. How can digitalisation avoid a growing distance towards physical encounters and embodied experience? Can new data technologies be more equitable and culturally attuned? How can art practice change its perspectives of time, sharing, and co-inhabiting? What new communities, infrastructures and economic mechanisms can be envisioned from a position of solidarity and care? From natural farming and agroforestry to radical potentials of the crypto economy, from non-linear self-organising scores to uncontrollable effects of feral ecologies, and from speculative weather instruments to the insuperable void between theory and practice – join us to take part in the inquiry, multiply the questions and map new paradoxes.

Curators: Maria Rusinovskaya, Espen Sommer Eide, Åse Løvgren.
Communication and production: Åsne Hagen, Kaeto Sweeney.
Graphic design: Vera Gomes.

The Only Lasting Truth is Change is organised by BEK in collaboration with Ekko, Østre, Aerial, Radio Multe 93.8 FM, and KORO’s project STUDIO. Supported by Norsk kulturråd, Fritt Ord, Bergen kommune, and KORO.