meet the artist 11 August – 10h-19h Mark Vernon – Magneto Mori: Bruxelles / Brussels Sound artist Mark Vernon is currently in residence at Q-O2. For his project Magneto Mori: Bruxelles / Brussels he invites you to pass by and share your earliest memories with him. On Thursday, 11th August between 10h and 19h there will be a day long drop-in session where you can come along to meet him and be recorded if you wish. To confirm or for more info you can email to Magneto Mori: Bruxelles / Brussels gathers people’s earliest or most vivid memories. Mark records these recollections direct to tape which will then be buried in the ground for 2 weeks (along with magnets that will partially erase the recordings) before being excavated and used as the basis for a new composition. The process is an analogy for the frailty of human memory and our ability to recall the past. The resulting piece can be heard at Mark’s end of residency presentation on Wednesday, 31st August. Mark will also be performing at Café Central on Thursday 18th August at 8pm – with Yves de Mey, Nika Son and Quai Allon ([removed]) [read more]
call 15 September Call for residencies at Q-O2 Q-O2 will host 20 residencies in 2023 of which 10 for international and 10 for local artists working with, on or around sound. We are open for artists, art workers and theorists who wish to work on a research-oriented project (please mind that we do not organise residencies directed at production).
We offer a work studio and material, a creative and communicative environment, and the possibility to present your work to a public. For international residents we provide accommodation in a shared apartment and a contribution to travel expenses of max 150€. A small subsistence budget will be reserved for all artists who do not come with other funding. Residencies should be between four and six weeks long.
To apply, please send a concise project proposal of not more than one page and a link to your website or other secondary information by September 15th to
listen 21 Tracks for the 21st Century: Dora Benyo HART magazine and Q-O2 join forces with 21 Tracks for the 21st Century, a series of playlists to gear ourselves for our present century. We ask our guests: what music does this century need? As tonic, as engine-fuel, as rhythm, as common ground, as ballast? Each time, we invite one artist, thinker or musician to prepare a playlist of those sounds, songs and pieces of music that will best arm their listeners with the tools to approach what is left of this young century. For this month’s edition, we invited painter and video and performance artist Dóra Benyó, who put together a two-part playlist featuring sounds from the Hungarian underground and pop scenes from the 60s to the 80s and beyond. [listen here]