OPEN CALL: Showcase Emerging Sound 2024
STUK and Q-O2 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 16 May 2024. 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 installations, sound performances, soundwalks, participatory sound work, radio art or sound interventions in public space.
- You are asked to propose only one existing work or work-in-progress, that is not older than 2021. Submissions with more than one work will not be considered.
- You have a link to Belgium: either by residence, education or nationality.
For whom?
- Presentation of one work or work-in-progress during the Showcase Emerging Sound 2023 at STUK in Leuven on 16 May 2024.
- Feedback 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 STUK, Leuven.
- Visibility and support in terms of communication and documentation towards Belgian and international programmers and the broader professional sector.
- Artistic compensation: €500
- Travel costs: up to €50
How to get involved?
Please apply before 15 October 2022 using the following online registration form.
The selection does not take the age, gender, ethnicity, religion, cultural background, ability or education into consideration. Selected artists will be informed by mid-December 2023 at the latest.
Previous editions:
- Showcase Emerging Sound 2023: Stijn Wybouw, Tom Malmendier & Emilie Skrijelj, Florence Cats, Diana Duta
- Showcase Emerging Sound 2022: Raphael Malfliet, Vica Pacheco, Marija Rasa Kudabaitė, Léa Roger
- Showcase Emerging Sound 2021: Anne van de Star, Charlie Usher, Dominik ‘t Jolle, Arzu Saglam, Beyt Al Tapes en Andres Garcia Navarro.
- Showcase Emerging Sound 2019: Lore Stessel & Rubén Martinez Orio, Jonathan Frigeri, Oona Libens, Lukas De Clerck
