OPEN CALL: Showcase Emerging Sound 2025
STUK, Q-O2 and Musica present an annual showcase of emerging sound artists in Belgium. The showcase shines a light on the diversity of the Belgian sound art landscape, and gives a boost to an upcoming generation of makers. We are looking for recent, existing sound work in any format: performance, installation, soundwalk, radio piece, intervention or other innovative formats. The selected works will be presented in STUK on Thursday 8 May 2025. Please read the detailed conditions specified below.
For whom?
- You are an emerging sound artist. In other words: in training, recently graduated, at the start of a career or still in need of developing a network within the Belgian or international sound art field.
- You make sound-based work such as installation, performance, soundwalk, participatory work, radio art or intervention in public space.
- You are asked to propose only one existing work or work-in-progress that is not older than 2022. Submissions with more than one work will not be considered.
- You have a link to Belgium: either by residence, education or nationality.
What do we offer?
- Presentation of the selected work or work-in-progress during the Showcase Emerging Sound 2025 at STUK in Leuven on Thursday 8 May 2025.
- Exchange session at Q-O2 to discuss your work with the organizers and other participants.
- An optional preparatory residency with overnight stay and technical support at Musica in Pelt (Klankenbos).
Hoe deelnemen?
Please apply before 15 October 2024 using the following online registration form.
Additional files can be mailed to: info@q-o2.be
The selection does not take the age, gender, ethnicity, religion, cultural background, ability or education into consideration. Selected artists will be informed by mid-November 2024 at the latest.
Previous edition:
- Edition 2024: Anouk Kellner, Kaat Vanhaverbeke, Pavel Tchikov, Lawrence McGuire & Amarante Net
- Edition 2023: Stijn Wybouw, Tom Malmendier & Emilie Skrijelj, Florence Cats, Diana Duta
- Edition 2022: Raphael Malfliet, Vica Pacheco, Marija Rasa Kudabaitė, Léa Roger
- Edition 2021: Anne van de Star, Charlie Usher, Dominik ‘t Jolle, Arzu Saglam, Beyt Al Tapes, Andres Garcia Navarro
- Edition 2019: Lore Stessel & Rubén Martinez Orio, Jonathan Frigeri, Oona Libens, Lukas De Clerck
