Touki and Rehana Zaman present a layering of sound, film excerpts, and discussion drawn from their ongoing collaborative film project commissioned by BEK. Responding to the question What is Change?, the presentation intertwines collective reflection and artistic process, weaving together voices, fragments, and perspectives that explore transformation through dialogue and solidarity.

Touki and Rehana Zaman will present a layering of fragments – sounds, film excerpts and discussion emerging from a collaborative film project in process, commissioned by BEK, that responds to the question What is Change?

 

TOUKI
Touki is an independent organisation that works to engage more young minorities, especially black youths, in the arts and politics. The organisation is a platform that highlights black voices in the arts and works for an anti-capitalist, anti-patriarchal, anti-racist and decolonised world. Touki runs the organisation based on volunteerism, community building and a willingness to make a difference in society.

Toukis’ goal is to establish a separate space for black artists, freed from the white gaze. A space where we can experience art without having to justify the black perspectives, and where the black artists’ work can exist and be appreciated on its own terms without being filtered through a white lens. Touki wants increased representation of perspectives from people of color, especially the black perspective in the Norwegian art world, and an art scene that is more inclusive and diverse.

REHANA ZAMAN
Rehana Zaman is an artist living and working in London. Her work speaks to notions of kinship and sociality, seeking out possibilities of intimacy and transgression within hostile contexts. Conversation and cooperative methods sit at the heart of her films which extend into texts, performances and group work. Zaman has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally. Recent presentations include Serpentine Civic, BFI London Film Festival, Tromsø Kunstforening, BEK, British Art Show 9 (Touring), ICA Miami, Trinity Square Video in Toronto, Borås International Sculpture Biennial and Artists’ Film International Whitechapel (International Touring). In 2019 she co-edited Tongues with Taylor Le Melle. In 2023 she was the winner of the Film London Jarman Award. She is a member of not/nowhere artist workers cooperative and her films are distributed by LUX.

Touki and Rehana Zaman stand in support of Palestinian struggles for liberation and against genocide, apartheid and colonialism.

Photo: Rehana Zaman workshop in Nesbyen. Photo by Maya Okland of BEK.

Part of BEK symposium The Only Lasting Truth is Change: Voice, Seed, Brutality.
21–23 November 2025
Bergen, Norway