After a short but fruitful retraite, the Q-O2 team is once again ready to relieve the summer stayers in the city from boredom and sloth in the coming weeks. There’s a post-residency presentation and a Second Sundays coming up with multi-hyphenate artist Felix Kubin, and an abundance of audio goodies: a two-part podcast report on this year’s Oscillation festival by hall of fame interns Emilia Elouardi & Maria Margolina, talks from thediscourse program of the festival, and the first tekhnē podcast, with Q-O2 resident Sholto Dobie. Don’t also hesitate to visit the tekhne website to discover our partners’ activities, read the first tekhne online journal with reflections on DIY cultures, and register to the project’s newsletter.
We’re also launching our yearlycall for residencies to search for new artists and researchers to join us in Q-O2 next year, of which several will take place in the framework of the tekhnē project.
Open call Open call for residencies in 2025
The call for residencies in 2025 at the Q-O2 workspace is now open. Next year, we offer two types of residencies for artists, researchers, art educators and cultural workers working in and with sound: => 7 thematic residencies of 6 weeks in the framework of the European collaboration tekhnē => 10 open research residencies of 4 weeks for artists working with sound in any field. Deadline for application is September 15th. Please find all info on our website. [read more]
Second Sundays #52 14 July – 17h (doors 16h30) – @ Q-O2 – free Felix Kubin
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. The sessions try to put value on listening to recorded music in a social setting as a space for discussion. The series takes place on the second Sunday of every month. Each session is paired with a cocktail-of-the-month, as decided by the invited guest. Our guest in July, stepping down right from the future into the Brussels reality: Felix Kubin. [read more]
Post-residency presentation 16 July – 18h – @ Q-O2 – free Felix Kubin Felix Kubin will present fragments of a series of interviews he held in Brussels, as part of his ongoing project „Besuch im Toten Winkel“ (visit to the blind spot), for which he explores ideas and forms of underground culture in music of a certain place and time, by meeting different people from the scene: artists, organisers, label owners…at the center of his research is the question of how the original idea of „Underground“ is transformed or corrupted in times of digital self-expression and ranking algorithms. Next to raw extracts of these recordings, he will show longer fragments of radio features he made around the so called „tape delinquents“, the German home-recording tape scene of the 1980’s. [read more]
Listen Oscillation ::: Materia Forma festival report
A two-part podcast gathering recordings from concerts and performances, interviews, conversation excerpts and a little narration. It comprises two episodes: a first one focusing on extreme performances, artist audience relationships and immersion, and a second one focusing on various DIY practices and field recording. Compiled and conceived by Emilia Elouardi and Maria Margolina, and presented at Lyl Radio. [listen here]
Listen Oscillation ::: Materia Forma discourse program
During the discourse afternoon of the Oscillation festival Bojana Cvejić, Gabriel Paiuk, Giulia Rae, Rim Irscheid, and Tim Ingold provided various perspectives on the festival topic, with contributions on, among others, immersion, technology, cultural conventions, and transindividuality. The afternoon finished with a round table with all the speakers. In case you missed the moment, a first set of these talks can now be listened to on our podcast series, the others will follow very shortly via the same channel. [listen here]
Listen tekhnē podcast #1
The tekhnē podcast series gives an insight into the activities of the project, featuring a variety of artists sharing knowledge around their work, discussing recorded material or curating playlists and airs bi-monthly on [removed]
The first of six episodes is dedicated to the work of Sholto Dobie, invited through the tekhnē open call for research projects at Q-O2. Sholto Dobie Is a UK born artist who lives in Vilnius, Lithuania; he uses an array of sound sources including home-made organs and bagpipes. He has explored ideas related to folklore and environment as sonic phenomenon and works with site-specific methodologies. [listen here]