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The exhibition of Bergen Assembly 2019 takes place at five different locations and public spaces in Bergen. Let's start with @Kunsthall ! The unseen and unheard as well as strategies for making oneself heard and seen play a central role in this part of the exhibition.
Voices that did not count for decades and were perceived as mere noise remind us that overcoming oppression is not just about whether someone raises their voice but also whether, how, and as what it is heard. 
Daniel G. Andújar: «In a world saturated with images, media impacts and all kinds of advertising intrusions, it remains surprising to see how the marketing techniques of political propaganda still manage to find a place amid so much competition»
John Barker & Ines Doujak: «Masterless Voices» is a musical based on the themes of carnival, utopia, and rebellion. It begins with a singing mountain.
Lorenza Böttner painted with her feet and mouth & used photography, drawing and dance as means of aesthetic expression. She defies processes of ‘desubjectivation’, desexualisation & ‘invisibilisation’ to which transgender and functionally diverse bodies are subjected.
Lisa Bufano & Sonsherée Giles: Bufano was an interdisciplinary artist and performer. At 21 a bacterial infection led to the amputation of her feet and fingers. She experimented with prosthetics and props in her work. Collaborator Sonsherée Giles is a dancer, & choreographer.
Ruth Ewan: Ewan’s current project «Asking Out» explores a particular educational method developed by an untrained primary school teacher, Muriel Pyrah, in Yorkshire throughout the 1960s and early 1970s.
Flo6X8: “A collective of activists with links to the flamenco world, who have carried out surprise actions at various banks, using flamenco – the quintessential Andalusian form of expression – to highlight the banking industry’s responsibility in the financial crisis.
Robert Gabris works with the medium of drawing and with experimental forms of printmaking, especially etching and engraving. His works are mostly autobiographical, autopsies of various identities, a constant searching for precise proportion and symmetry.
Jan Peter Hammer explores narrative practices and their potentialities of critique. Hammer’s new video explores Daniel Paul Dukes’ case as an example of a lack of ‘emplotment’, that is, of the capability to assemble a series of events into a narrative that organises life.
Hiwa K: «Pre-Image» documents a performance in Porto, Gdansk and Vienna, among others, and between Greece and Rome along the way. On his forehead Hiwa K balances a bar on which motorbike mirrors are mounted.
Anette Hoffmann engages with historical sound collections and archives of colonial history by means of close listening, translating and re-connecting recorded songs and spoken words to related archival traces.
Teresa Lanceta and Pedro G. Romero had lived in the same city and even in the same building without meeting; they were not aware of each other. A few years ago Romero confessed to Lanceta his longstanding admiration of her early textile works.
Yunyop Lee engages in social participatory works, engraving various characters and landscapes on wooden boards. In 2005, he joined the people of the Daechu-ri village, where the community was destroyed in the process of building an enormous US military base.
Suntag Noh explores how various social conflicts in contemporary Korean society are linked to the Korean War (1950–53). Through his practice, he focuses on collecting and visualising evidence proving that, although the war ended a long time ago, its impact is far from over.
PEROU is a research-action laboratory focusing on processes of urban exclusion. On one hand, it reflects the increasing hostility in cities, and on the other it carries out social and architectural actions to implement hospitality and solidarity.
Imogen Stidworthy: «Iris [a fragment]» focuses on Swedish therapist Iris Johansson. Johansson was non-verbal until she learned to speak at the age of 12 and eventually to write at age 30, but as she says, ‘ I will always be autistic’ and part of her remains in the non-verbal.
«Oi! was created by us, a group of people of colour who live and/or work in the city of Bergen. (In Norway, we are termed ‘people from minority backgrounds’.) Some of us are here long- term, some of us short-term, some only on a part-time or temporary basis.»
Since early 2018, Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa has been researching the small, permanent exhibition at the Bergen University Museum of Cultural History, titled «Inntrykk fra Koloniene» in Norwegian.
