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).
- Visibility and support in terms of communication and documentation towards Belgian and international programmers and the broader professional sector.
- Compensation for the presentation of the selected work: €500
- Fixed travel costs: €50
When
Thursday 8 May 2025
Where
STUK – House for Dance, Image & Sound, Leuven
Register
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 editions
- 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
