post-residency performance 2 August – 20h-22h – free Rebecca Lane & Clara de Asis Sound performance for flutes, synthesizer, percussion, field recordings & silent whistles. Distances Bending is an ever-expanding process – a building up, distilling and mirroring of materials particular to each artist’s sonic practices, responding to and inhabiting a space over multiple hours or days. During the residency, sonic and visual materials have been developed to inform an environmental system within which the performance takes place, but which has a life force or choreography of its own. Developing a repeated time structure, a temporal loop that is altered by upwardly expanding frequencies (plucked from the harmonic series), instruments (whose size, timbre and shape correspond to these frequencies), various filtering bodies (found & electronic) and changing light, they aim to create a subtle space where perception can be transformed. [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]