THE EUROPEAN PEPINIERES RENEWED THEMSELVES
With a brand new staff under the name Pépinières Europénnes de Création, the structure reborns to develop, through a vast network of partnerships in France, Europe and abroad, programs of residency for artists, mobility, exchanges, to support (co)production and dissemination of projects… with particular attention to new hybrid talents and digital cultures.
Programs
Pepinieres creates mobility, creation, co-production, distribution and workshops programs …
Networks
Pepinieres’ networks include artists/creators and structures in Europe, North America, Africa and Asia.
Art Calls
The Pepinieres’ calls offer to artist/creators residence opportunities or opportunities to disseminate their projects.
Partners
Three main axes of partnership that can benefit of funds, equities and Pepinieres networks
News
No Lockdown Transonic Winter Session #1 [in progress] | Transonic Label (Be) – #NoLA2020
As part of the #NoLA2020-21 ongoing project, sound creators from different countries and adventurous aesthetics are invited to each send a live audio session (like an intimate concert to share online with an unknown public) this will be illustrated with a fixed visual...
read moreNo Lockdown Sonopoetics – 3 new Christmas releases | #NoLA2020
From a selection of texts (in the framework of the “Confined correspondences” commissioned during the recent lockdown period by Transcultures and the European Pepinieres of Creation and their No Lockdown Art programme) written by different authors/artists from...
read moreFlux & Densités – Alain Wergifosse + Anne-Sophie Blanchet | Residency outcom Transcultures (Be)
The first phase of the digital creation/research residency exchange between Transcultures (Be) and La Chambre Blanche (Qc) associates the Belgian multimedia and sound artist Alain Wergifosse with the Quebec art historian/curator Anne-Sophie Blanchet. Alain Wergifosse...
read more18.12.2020 | Live Transonic Sessions Performances – Second Life (Web)
A Limb (Didié Nietzsche solo project - BE) is a kind of artistic Frankenstein, exhuming all sorts of music corpses from their graves, stitching an ambient body with funk legs, punk feet, experimental arms, jazz hands, a drone head, inserting a big ethnic music heart...
read more17.12.2020 > 16.01.2021 | Des mouvements que je n’aurais jamais pu faire – Pierre Larauza ! | Tour à plomb (Be)
Pierre Larauza (interdisciplinary artist, co-founder of the collective transitscape) presents at the Center Tour à Plomb (Brussels) a three-dimensional work which he describes as a “documentary sculpture” taking the form of life-size historical reconstructions...
read moreKeita Mori (Fr/Jp) | Langage Plus (Qc) Laureat 2021
Born in Hokkaido, Japan in 1981, and lives and works in Paris, Keita Mori realizes his drawings using a special technique which he has developed since 2011: the taut wires with a glue gun. He thus creates spaces, through accumulation and entanglement of wires:...
read more07 > 18.12.20 | D’un sens l’autre – Workshop Emergences – Sound creation (Be/Fr)
The third collaboration between the school of visual arts of Mons Arts2 (BE) and ESÄ-Nord-Pas-de-Calais in Tourcoing (Fr) - still in partnership with Transcultures and the European Pépinières de Création - which together initiated the twin studio or GMLR (bringing...
read more01.12.2020 > 24.01.2021 | SURPRISE ! – Images dans le milieu (Arts2) – Exhibition @ BPS22 Charleroi
Since the launch in 2008 of Digital and Sound Emergences, a program to support art school student projects, Transcultures has developed close ties with the IDM (Image in the middle) section of the school. of the visual arts of Mons (now Arts2), and its responsible...
read moreEluned Zoë Aiano (GB) | Laureate Meduse (Qc) 2020-21
Eluned Zoë Aiano is a filmmaker, video editor and translator focussed on Central and Eastern Europe. Her area of interest is visual ethnography on the border between documentary and art, social practice and experimentation. She was selected for the "With Teeth" short...
read moreMarc Vilanova (Es) | Laureate Meduse (Qc) 2020-21
Sound and light artist working at the intersection of art, science and technology, Marc Vilanova’s artistic production has always been led by a spirit of innovation fueled by an interest in new media. Merging research and artistic practices onto projects in which...
read more12.11.2020 | Akashic Diaries – Biba Sheikh + A Temple for Tomorrows – John Jeffire – Sonopoetic reading
In pre-announcement of the publication of the book "Akachic Diaries - Detroit Degree Zero and other crisis writings" to be published in early 2021 by Aquarius Press editions, Biba Sheikh is invited to unveil some extracts from these burning/moving texts which were...
read moreCrossed residencies Vice Versa 2020-21 | Anne-Sophie Blanchet (Qbc) + Alain Wergifosse (Be) – Flux & Densities
For the fifth edition of their digital creation/arts-sciences residency exchange initiated in 2015, La Chambre Blanche (artist-run centre dedicated to experimentation in visual and digital arts based in Quebec City) and Transcultures (centre for digital and...
read moreCall 2020 | Populism and freedom of expression 2021 > Articles | Laboratoire LLSETI (Fr)
The LLSETI Lab (Axis 2 - Text Image & Digital Arts - Savoie Mont-Blanc University), is launching a call for papers under the theme Populism and freedom of expression, supported by its various partners (including the European Pepinieres of Creation). Deadline :...
read moreCall 2020 | IONNYK – photographic art, digital, black & white (INT)
In partnership with the European Pepinieres of Creation, IONNYK is launching its first call for participation aimed at contemporary visual artists around photographic art, digital black & white. Grants € 1500 to be divided between three laureats The opportunity,...
read moreLivres | Catalogue SURPRISE !… ou le premier jour du reste de ma vie
Everything you always wanted not to know about IMAGES IN THE MIDDLE – IDM ©. This book is 333 (+3) pages for the 33 years of Jean-François Octave in this transdisciplinary contemporary art workshop, not quite like the others. Published in the form of an alphabet book,...
read more21.10 > 11.11.2020 | Common Ground Project – Visions Of Inside @ Biennial of the Moving Image
The Common Ground Project (Vision of Inside), directed by Kika Nicolela (BR / BE), will be presented at the Biennial of the Moving Image (BIM), an artistic event that since 2012 celebrates video art and experimental cinema in the city of Buenos Areas. It is a...
read more21.10 > 11.11.2020 | Common Ground Project vol. 1 @ Now&After festival 2020
The Common Ground Project vol. 1, directed by Kika Nicolela (BR / BE), will be presented at the international video art festival “Now & After” at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA). Annual event in Moscow, organized by the Media Art Center “Now & After”...
read more17.10.20 > 30.01.21 | SURPRISE !… ou le premier jour du reste de ma vie – Anciens Abattoirs (Be)
Since the launch in 2008 of Digital and Sound Emergences, a program to support art school student projects, Transcultures has developed close ties with the IDM (Image in the middle) section of the school. of the visual arts of Mons (now Arts2), and its responsible...
read more16.10.2020 | Falling Human – Thomas Israël @ Lumen#5 festival
Thomas Israël (digital artist, visual artist, performer from Brussels) is the winner of a call for projects launched this Summer 2020 by the Maison de la Marionnette and Transcultures for the creation of an original work combining digital, scenic and puppet arts....
read more14 > 25.10.2020 | Emergences numériques et sonores @ Lumen#5 festival (Be)
Transcultures, which in 2008 initiated the Digital and Sound Emergences support program in partnership with art schools in Wallonia-Brussels and France, and the Maison de la Marionnette join forces to support and promote digital, intermedia and / or sound projects by...
read moreThomas Israël (Be) | Maison de la Marionette – Transcultures (Be) Laureat 2020
The Brussels-based artist, Thomas Israël (1975), proposes immersive, generative or interactive works in the form of video installations, sculptures, video stage design and performances. Having begun his career in contemporary theatre, his atypical and...
read moreAlbum online | Ludovic Medery – Travel without moving! | #NoLA2020
Transcultures and its alter label Transonic support the ‘Travel without moving project‘ initiated during the lockdown period by Belgian sound artist Ludovic Medery. The artist has been released in several monthly episodes between April and September 2020 and a...
read moreTriptyque Prototype – Thomas Israël (Be) | #NoLA2020
"Triptyque Prototype" is an enigma with an exploded temporality which allows cross and associative readings. Its protagonist is in tension between the doll or the android and the woman of flesh-and-blood. The artwork (shot in Montreal in 2015 and finalised in Brussels...
read moreCall 2020 | MAP artists residency 2021 – Langage Plus (Qc)
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS : LANGAGE PLUS, MAP, ARTIST RESIDENCIES, ALMA, QUÉBEC In the Framework of the Map mobility programme, Pépinières européennes de Création and Langage Plus (+ its partner the Sagamie Center) launch a call for applications for a 2 months residency,...
read more07 > 16.08.2020 | Isa Belle + Paradise Now + Stephan Dunkelman | Lizières Residencies (part 2 – Fr)
Hosted for a final part of a residency at Lizières (Centre of cultures and resources initiated by the multidisciplinary artist Ramuntcho Matta near Paris), after a successful first part in June 2020, the duet Isa Belle + Paradise Now collaborates with the composer and...
read moreCall 2020 | Résidences Auteurs 2021 – L’Usine Utopik (FR)
This call in only for french speaking L'Association ADN - Usine Utopik, Centre de Création Contemporaine, lance un appel à candidature pour 2 résidences artistiques à destination des auteurs de 30 jours chacune qui prendront place en mars et juin 2021. Montant des...
read moreCall 2020 | Visual Arts residency 2021 – Usine Utopik (FR)
The ADN association – USINE UTOPIK is lauching an open call for a 54 days artistic residency in visual arts in April to may 2021. Grants 3750 euros maximum Deadline : October 16th, 2020 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS : ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES IN VISUAL ARTS The call for...
read moreCall 2020 | Artists Collective residency 2021 – Usine Utopik (FR)
The ADN association – USINE UTOPIK is lauching an open call for a 54 days artistic residency to all graduated artists group in a collective with professional practice in contemporary creation which will take place in august/october 2021. Grants 11 250 euros maximum...
read moreNo Lockdow Art – #NoLA2020 | Laureats
MeuFollowing the call for projects #NoLA - No Lockdown Art (Creaconnections program) launched by Transcultures and the European Pepinieres of Creation in the first days of confinement and which closed on May 15, 2020, some 125 applications were selected by the...
read morePastoral (BE/FR)- Lockdown Drift | #NoLA2020
Produced via connected exchanges during the lockdown of Spring 2020 (due to Covid-19) by the Pastoral duet, Lockdown Drift captures the expectation, the floating sensation but also the domestic reverie, the imaginary transfiguration and a form of sweet melancholy. The...
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