Wrap is a centre for artistic production and communication, which provides a wide range of facilities to professional artists, on a project-to-project basis. Wrap is artist-run, but none of our facilities are exclusively reserved for any particular artist. Our tools and spaces are maintained and organised by knowledgeable professionals and our prices are subsidised in order to reflect the means of most artists, and to maintain an inclusive profile.

We also initiate and curate various artistic projects that we believe benefit the artistic communities surrounding the centre.

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Autumn Program Launch

Wrap continued to serve as a space for artistic projects and collaborations throughout the summer, even while core team (Leo and Veronica) spent three months at their alternative base in Sunnmøre.

Freelance technician, Priscilla Navas, took care of various changeovers and setups, both in the wood and metal workshop, in the AV Lab, and in our various project rooms. Reception and the upkeep of shared facilities was managed by Julia Ducrocq, Elise Duus, Suzanne Starr and others.

Leo and Veronica’s return to Bergen coincided with the launch of Wrap’s autumn program with the seventh edition of Sonisk Selskap, closely followed by the first in a series of six new Audioglimt concerts.

There is one more edition of Sonisk Selskap coming in the beginning of November, with a unique ensemble recruited and led by Sonisk Sheriff, Bodil Lunde Rørtveit.

We will also visit our inspiring partners at Kjelbju-Låven in Gulen, taking the tremendous Speaker Park installation to this remote location with our bus, Vandana, as part of Wrap Satellite. While in Gulen, Leo Preston will compose a new site specific piece for the installation, which will be presented alongside existing Speaker Park repertoire.

We hope you can join us and experience some of this exciting program with us over the coming months!

Audioglimt:

September 13th: Himmelfarten plays to Koynaanisqatsi (1982)

November 8th: Emily Adomah Adjei, Eline Rafteseth & Inga Beate Bøe play to Abort (1971)

November 15th: Carmen Boveda & Owen Weaver (film to be confirmed)

November 22nd: Ingebjørg Loe Bjørnstad & Eva Pfitzenmeier play to The Asphodel Phases (2019)

December 6th: Kathrine Bauck & Matias Monsen (film to be confirmed)

January 3rd: Vepsestikk (film to be confirmed)

Sonisk Selskap:

September 8th: A Sonic Protocol of the Mind (led by Daiyen Jone)

January 12th: unconfirmed title (led by Bodil Lunde Rørtveit)

Wrap Satellite:

November 2nd. Speaker Park at Kjelbju-låven in Gulen.

Wrap condems apartheid and racism in any form, and as a member of the BDS movement’s Apartheid Free Zones campaign, we are divesting from companies that contribute to or profit from the Israeli occupation and genocide in Gaza, and withholding from cooperation with persons and organisations funded by the Israeli state. This is an ethical decision that reflects our respect for the idea of a rules based order and for established international definitions of human rights.