Artistic activity
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2025
11. oktober: "into the blue" opening concert at Venice Music Biennale 2025
27 march: Bozar Brussels concert, collaboration with Anatomie Fleur
10-21 march: Gusts (Damien Jalet + Nagelhus Schia productions) pre-prod in Brussels
Bendik Giske at Berghain
During CTM (Club Transmediale) festival 2025.
Date: 29. January 2025
2024
“I’ll See You In The Trees” – a performance by Damien Jalet, Aimilios Arapaglou, Vinson Fraley, and Bendik Giske.
Set in Jim Hodges’ solo show “Ceremony” at Gladstone Gallery, this production saw a week of rehearsals before performing the final show with people like Marina Abramovic and Riccardo Tisci
Bendik Giske at Pirelli Hangar Bicocca
Date: 20. November 2024
Venue: Pirelli Hangar Bicocca in Milan, Italy
A conversation with Anselm Kiefer’s The Seven Heavenly Palaces (permanent installation)
Another Moon x Bendik Giske
Venue: Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (KR)
Date: 4. September 2024
Bendik Giske & Sam Barker – Disorientations
Date: 25. May 2024
Venue: Håkonshallen during Bergen International Festival (Festspillene i Bergen)
A new commission by FiB
Marianna Simnett: Winner
Music for multi media art exhibition
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (DE)
Date (vernissage): 17. May 2024
MUNCH, Oslo (NO)
Exhibition “Jordsvingniger” (trembling earth) followed by a compilation record.
Giske’s contribution “Mot Skogen II» is the last track on the record
Vernissage date: 27. April 2024
Ableton Loop “doing music” podcast, Berlin (DE)
Date: 9. April 2024
Forskningsfestivalen Ding Dong eller Dong Ding?, Levinsalen, Oslo (NO)
Date: 3. april 2024
Pure G radio show, Taipei (TW)
Air date: 21. Januar 2024
Klubnacht at Berghain, Berlin (DE)
Date: 1. Januar 2024
International touring
Ongoing iterative development of a performance practice
Madeiradig (festival), Madeira (PT)
Date: 1. December 2024
Museo Maxxi, Rome (IT)
Headline show
Date: 21. November 2024
Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan (IT)
Headline show
Date: 20. November 2024
MUTEK Mexico, Mexico City
Collaboration with dancer/choreographer Diego Vega Solorza
Date: 17. October 2024
Lincoln Center, New York (US)
Headline show
Date: 9. October 2024
Warm Love, Cool Dreams (festival), Chicago (US)
Date: 28. September 2024
Zebulon, Los Angeles (US)
Headline show
Date: 25. September 2024
Making Time (festival), Philadelphia (US)
Date: 21. September 2024
Zitadelle Spandau, Berlin (DE)
Support for PJ Harvey
Date: 13. August 2024
Dekmantel Festival, Amsterdam (NL)
Date: 1. August 2024
Phoenix Central Park, Sydney (AU)
Headline shows
Dates: 22. & 23. July 2024
Unsound festival, Adelaide (AU)
Date: 19. July 2024
Tauron Nowa Muzyka, Katowice (PL)
Date: 22. June 2024
Dripping Festival, Sparta NJ (US)
Date: 15. June 2024
Public Records, Brooklyn (US)
Headline show
Support: Concrete Husband (US)
Date: 14. June 2024
Conpass, Osaka (JP)
Headline show
Date: 7. June 2024
Sogetsu Hall, Tokyo (JP)
Promoted by Mode Exchange
Split gig with Akira Sakata (JP), Valentina Magaletti (IT)
Date: 4. June 2024
MUNCH, Oslo (NO)
Split gig with Eivind Lønning + Jim O’Rourke and Laurel Halo
Date: 29. May 2024
XJazz!, Berlin (DE)
Date: 11. May 2024
Dampfzentrale, Bern (CH)
Split-gig with Chuquimamani Condori
Date: 25. April 2024
Archa+, Prague (CZ)
Headline concert
Date: 10. April 2024
Audra Festival Showcase, Kaunas (LT)
Date: 22. March 2014
2023
Rinse FM radio show (FR)
Air date: 23. December 2023
Heteroglossia
A collaborative project with instrument builder Úlfur Hansson (IS) during Sequences Art Festival in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Date: 13. - 15. October 2023
Venue: National Gallery – House of Collections. Reykjavik, Iceland
The Endlessly Repeated Risings and Fallings of Desire
Date: 28. September 2023 – 1. October 2023
Venue: Panteão Nacional, Lisbon (PT)
Bendik Giske & Romeu Runa
Bendik Giske moves his fingers firmly and delicately across the thresholds of the music; Romeu Runa lets himself be invaded and taken over by the dance until his body experiences wear and tear. Surrendered to the obsessive desire to wander, in a hypnotizing trance, the Norwegian saxophonist and the Portuguese dancer and actor create a unique music and dance performance. The artists reflect on time and movement from the oscillating and infinite repetitions of desire – also responsible for forming and perfecting their own voices and natural states of expression.
Evoking the memory and autobiography of the writer Samuel Delany, who’s oeuvre contains the imaginings of queer futures through the lens of science fiction afrofuturism, Bendik Giske and Romeu Runa create a meditative atmosphere that leads us to ecstasy by the recurrence of “elements that are repeated throughout any day, any life, incidents that constitute at once the basal and quotidian – waking up, breakfast, lunch, dinner, washing, elimination, driving off to sleep – as well as the endlessly repeated risings and fallings of desire” (The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village, 1988).
Commission and production: BoCA – Biennial of Contemporary Arts
Masterclass Fontys, Tilburg (NL)
with saxophone students age 19-24
Date: 23. September 2023
International touring
Ongoing iterative development of a performance practice
NODE festival, Modena (IT)
Date: 8. December 2023
Enjoy Jazz X Queer Festival, Heidelberg (DE)
Date: 28. October 2023
Headline Concert at ICA, London (UK)
Date: 6. October 2023
Support: Damsel Elysium
Schauwberg Concertsaal, Tilburg (NL)
Date: 23. September 2023
Headline concert at Botanique, Brussels (BE)
Date: 21. September 2023
Headline concert at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam (NL)
Date: 20. September 2023
Headline concert at Volksbühne, Berlin (DE)
Date: 8. September 2023
Support act: Sarahsson