open rehearsal 28 June – 17h – free upon registration – at: Grand Hospice, rue du Grand Hospice 7, 1000 Bxl Anna Kravets – Emergency Rehearsal Artist Anna Kravets from Kyiv invites you to a bunker as a preparation for thinking about an emergency: what it does to our bodies and which types of responsibility it evokes, practically and emotionally. Having experienced her habitual reference system fall apart together with the hopes that the full-scale war would not actually break out, she starts a project of an emotional encyclopedia. Together with and through others, she tries to grasp the phenomenon of war, inviting you to a collective recording session: an improvisation that prepares for a radio piece. Please let us know you are coming at [more info and registration]
walk 9 July – 14h Forest-village: archipel d’habitats – marche avec Jérôme Giller
In this walk, Jérôme Giller proposes to survey the bottom of Forest by connecting blocks of habitation that allow us to understand the historical, sociological and economic evolution of of the industrial area, distributed around the railway line 124 which connects Brussels to Charleroi. Free upon registration: Starting point of the walk: Union tram stop (line 82 and 97): Avenue Van Volxem 208 / 1190 Forest.
Second Sundays #32 10 July – 17h (doors 16h30) – free Peter Fengler Second Sundays is a monthly series initiated by Q-O2. Each session a new guest is invited to share an insight into their own listening, playing and speaking about a selection of sound and music that is important to their thinking or practice. [more info]
post-residency performance 13 July – 18h – free Alice Hui-Sheng Chang Alice Hui-Sheng Chang is a sound improvisor, experimental vocalist, and experiential arts therapist from Taiwan. She will present her work on Alice in Wonderland based on voice improvisations carried out in the Brussels public space during her residency. [more info]
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]