The European Pepinieres of Creation invest each year in the production of actions, projects or artistic and cultural works with particular attention paid to contemporary and intermedia arts, digital arts and arts / science projects, sound arts, videographic arts, performing arts (with specific attention to performance outside of the traditional forms of theatre and dance), contemporary poetry and, more generally, new forms of hybrid writing… by promoting as much as possible the transversality between the different disciplines, practices and skills.
European Pepinieres of Creation – Production and co-production
14 > 31.03.2024 | Pepinieres @ Festival VIDEOFORMES 2024 | Clermont Ferrand (Fr)
In 2021, the Pépinières co-produced (with VIDEOFORMES, ZKM, Festival Access(S) Transcultures) the work of John Sanborn – The Friend. For this 39th edition of their international festival of hybrid and digital arts in Clermont-Ferrand, VIDEOFORMES has designed with...
08.02 > 14.02.2024 | Resonnances exhibition – Studio GMLR Arts2 (Be) ESÄ Tourcoing (Fr) | Les Anciens Abattoirs De Mons (Be)
The chimes form concentric spaces in many cities, in the north of France as in Belgium. These spaces, at the same time social, spiritual, musical, community, provided so many subjects of study and sources of inspiration for the young artists of this GMLR session. We...
01.02 > 26.02.2024 | MATERIA residency – Alain Wergifosse | Transcultures – Convent of Hautrage (Be)
Alain Wergifosse, sound, visual and intermedia artist is, hosted at Transcultures in its new spaces at the Hautrage convent (Saint-Ghislain), for a long residence in 2024. He has initially worked on MATERIA, a sound and visual installation project around a journey of...
29.01 > 04.02.2024 | Zone Libre – Sound Art Festival 2024 | Bastia (Fr)
Since its creation in 2019, the Zone Libre sound arts festival has emerged as one of the essential events for sound creation in Corsica. Discovering projects that question, shake up and enrich aesthetics, the festival has established itself for its transversality,...
10 + 12.01.2024 | Yadleen (De) + A Limb (Be) – Transonic Second Life Sessions #4 | Second Life (Web)
Since 2020, the Transonic Second Life events (sessions and festivals) have supported the creation and online dissemination of audio visual projects within the first metaverse. This fourth Transonic Second Life session will bring together musicians Yadleen (Dream...
Mini Album | From one (sONic) world to another – Tommy Lawson (Tg/Fr) | Transonic Label (Be)
This mini nomadic audio album is the selective phonographic transposition of the geolocalized sound journey “From one (sONic) world to another / D'un monde (sONore) à l'autre" presented, following a Transcultures/Pépinières européennes de Création in La Louvière...
29.12.2023 | AI Vilnius Symphony (Musical Blockchain) @ Vilnius 700 | Ideas Block – Kompresorinė (Lt)
To close this year of partnership with Ideas Block - Kompresorinė, Transcultures is pleased to support the Art/CultureTech event, the highlight of the Vilnius 700 program, a proposal at the intersection of sound, music, AI-assisted creation, and blockchain, taking...
01 > 03.12.2023 | Tactus – International Radio festival | Usmaradio (San Marino)
The European Pepinieres of Creation are very happy to continue its partnership with Usmaradio for the TACTUS Radio Festival 2023, an international project dedicated to radiophonic art. Within the spaces of the Antico Monastero Santa Chiara, the festival will offer...
30.11 > 01.12.2023 | Cultural and natural heritage in the post-digital era – HyperHeritage #8 | ISAMT (Tu)
The International Symposium on HyperHeritage (HIS) focuses on the preservation, valorization, and transmission of both material and immaterial cultural heritage. It embraces a comprehensive view of heritage, encompassing material goods such as objects and...
30.11 > 08.12.2023 | Cognitive Itch Residency – Ouros Association (Fr) | Saisons Zéro (Fr)
Transcultures and its partners support the "Cognitive Itch" project, led by the Ouros association and which aims to highlight sound arts, current noise and experimental music, while remaining particularly attentive to artistic emergence and therefore to young creators...
28.11 > 12.12.2023 | Creation Residence – Solitary Empathy – Fred Chemama (Fr/Be) | Moukhtab’Art (Ma)
Since childhood, Morocco has always held a special place in Fred Chemama's heart, where he also pursued a portion of his studies. Following the devastating earthquake that caused havoc, destruction, and the tragic loss of thousands of lives, the artist desired to...
27 + 28.11.2023 | ArtComTech Talks – Philippe Franck (Be/Fr) + Gabriel Soucheyre (Fr) | Town Hall (Vilnius – Lt)
As part of the “Spirit of Vilnius“ exhibitions and events, ArtComTech is offering 2 lectures-debates with Philippe Franck (27.11) and Gabriele Soucheyre (28.11) -respectively director of Transcultures + Pépinières européennes de Création and Videoformes- who talk...
23 > 24.11.2023 | HyperUrban Symposium #9 – City driven by data | Ibn Zohr University, Agadir (Ma)
The term "Data Cities" incorporates postmodernism, inventiveness, adventure and creation. Postmodernism, in the sense of Jencks1, by proposing conceptual breaks with certain urban practices and designs on the one hand and on the other hand by referring to new concepts...
06.11 > 30.11.2023 | Spirit of Vilnius – Exhibition + collective performances | Rotušė (Vilnius – Lt)
The transdisciplinary artist and curator Natan Karczmar will present at Rotušė, the former Vilnius Town Hall, the historical pictural works of his father Simon Karczmar and his own exhibition “Spirit of Vilnius”. His father's exhibition was inspired by Shtetl...
21.10.2023 | Dystopia of Forms – Performance by Fred Chemama (Fr/Be) | Moukhtab’Art (Ma)
As part of his project “Fusional Illuminations”, which he begins in December 2023 in Morocco, the artist Fred Chemama will offer, at the invitation of the contemporary art space Moukhtab'Art in Rabat, a multimedia performance which will take place in its protean...
13.10 > 22.10.2023 | Pépinières @ Lumen #8 Festival – Puppetry and Media Arts | Tournai (Be)
For 6 years, the Center de la Marionnette (Tournai-BE) and Transcultures have joined forces at the annual Lumen event to support and promote digital, intermedia or / and sound projects by students from the Eurometropolis: Arts2 - Visual Arts School of Mons, ESA -...
15.07.2023 | Transonic Second Life Festival #4 @ Museum Island (SL)
For this beginning of the summer vacation period, here is the 4th edition of this online micro festival, which is part of the “Transonic Second Life Sessions”. These events offer, in different Second Life venues, concerts and audio-visual performances by bringing together around a community of sound and multimedia artists, and visitors who, in a spirit both playful and adventurous, discover or follow the development of international talents who perform in various avatars.
This series of performances by artists associated with the Transconic label in Second Life is part of the NoLA – No Lockdown Art initiative of Transcultures and European Pepinières of Creation since the first lockdown due to the health crisis since March 2020.
24.06 > 08.07.2023 | Sull’Impronta – Andrea et Francesco Strizzi (It-Be) exhibition | Gallery Nostrum (Be)
Two sculptural researchers have as a common trait, the use of imprint to create a « space of sound » . On one side , the testimony of a past sound; traces like fossils that reconstruct a score, a tactile path of listening. On the other, couples of elements ; sensitive...
19.06.2023 | Memento Vivere live – Selen (Fr) + YadLimb (De+Be) | NovaOwl Sky Gallery (SL)
“Memento Vivere”, in Latin, means “Remember to live”. Isn’t it the other face of the same medal with “Memento Mori” which means “Remember that you’ll die”? What if the fear of dying was actually the fear of living?... The French digital artist invited the...
16.06.2023 | Tree Stories – Performance Kotryna Žilinskaitė (Lt) + Hasan Alp Çelikel (Tk) | Ideas Block (Lt)
Tree stories is a interdisciplinary and multifaceted in progress project inspired by the timeless poetry and mystical power of raw nature embodied by the tree in a time where Man is continuing to destroy the natural environment as well as himself in a blind infernal...
06.06.2023 | A Limb (Be) – Opening concert of the Atlantes exhibition – Ann Von Rhein (De) | Camp Italia (SL)
As part of the events of the Music&Art summer season, A Limb will perform the opening concert of the new exhibition "Atlantes" by German artist Ann Von Rhein on Second Life.A LIMB (Be) Didié Nietszche (Radio Prague, 48 Cameras, Lamaφ, Neptunian Maximalism) solo...
31.05 > 05.06.2023 | D’un monde (sONore) à l’autre – Tommy Lawson (Tg/Fr) – ARTour Résidency (Be)
After a first period of residence in La Louvière (Belgium) at the end of April 2023 and a location of the points of his future geolocated itinerary “D’un monde (sONore) à l’autre” (“From one world (sONic) to another” – created for the fourteenth edition of the...
26.05 > 05.06.2023 | Kotryna Žilinskaité (Lt) + Hasan Alp Çelikel (Tk/Lt) – City Sonic residency | Transcultures (Be)
In the dynamics of the 20th anniversary of the City Sonic, the international sound arts festival (initiated by Transcultures Belgium in 2003 - with several collaborations with Pépinières, notably during joint European projects) which is also a platform of exchanges...
23.05.2023 | Transonic Second Life Sessions #3 | Studio M – Second Life (Web)
Since 2020, the Transonic Second Life events (sessions and festivals) have supported the creation and online dissemination of audio visual projects within the first metaverse. This third Transonic Second Life session will bring together the musicians Yadleen (Dream...
Album | Akashic Diaries – Biba Sheikh (Lb/USA) + Paradise Now (Fr/Be) | Transonic label (Be)
Based on texts taken from the book “Akashic Diaries – Detroit Degree Zero and Other Crisis Writings” (published by Europia Productions at the end of April 2023, in e-book and paper format) commissioned to Biba Sheikh at the start of the Covid 19 lockdown in April...
12 > 13.05.2023 | The digitized body – Exhibition + Concert + Meetings | Databaz (Fr)
What remains of the human body in the age of automated AI generation of realistic photographs? If digitization may have appeared as the preservation of traces of our humanity as underlined by French artist/author David Guez's “Binary Steles”, it was quickly...
Livre | Akashic Diaries – Detroit Degree Zero and Other Crisis Writings – Biba Sheikh (Lb/USA) | Europia (Fr)
These burning/moving texts are poetic fragments, and sketches, nourished by the visions and experiences of Biba Sheikh, nomadic American writer and artist of Lebanese origin, living now in Detroit. THe book was commissioned by Transcultures - Belgium and the ...
27.04.2023 | Degree Zero (unknown realities) – Sonopoetic performance – Biba Sheikh (Lb/USA) | International Institute of Detroit (USA)
This poetic performance is taking place in celebration of the ‘Arab American Heritage Month’, at the International Institute of Metro Detroit. Habibah (Biba) Sheikh will perform texts, from her newly released book, “Akashic Diaries: Detroit Degree Zero, and other...
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27.04 > 14.05.2023 | Augmented reality tour ]P P P[ XR Bury – La Société iMatériel (Fr/Be) | La Louvière (Be)
] P P P [ - XR Bury pays tribute to the inventiveness of Pol Bury, a multidisciplinary and visionary creator (from Surrealism to Kinetic Art), and highlights emblematic works and locations of his presence in the Louvière area. It allows for a playful and poetic...
27 > 28.04.2023 | Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence – XR Bury | Maison des associations (Be)
On the occasion of the centenary of Pol Bury's birth, Transcultures, in partnership with the Paragraphe laboratory (CiTu axis) of the Paris 8 University and CY Cergy-Paris University, is organizing a research/creation seminar on art in the digital and AI era with...
26.04.2023 | Sound arts/alternative urban explorations workshop | Centrissime (Be)
This workshop, which brings together PHD students and professors from the CiTu-Paragraphe laboratory - University of Paris 8, takes place in the preamble to the symposium around the legacy of the multidisciplinary and indisciplinary artist (from La Louvière), Pol Bury...
22 > 29.04.2022 | Résidence PPP XR Bury – Société i-Matériel | Transonic Lab La Louvière (Be)
The members of the iMaterial Society bringing together creators/researchers Marc Veyrat/design, initiator of the Society i Material project, Jonathan Juste/programming, images, Gaetan Le Coarer/images, Philippe Franck/sound and poetic design are invited, by...
22.04 > 15.05.2023 | XR BURY – From the visionary work of Pol Bury to digital arts | La Louvière (Be)
On the occasion of the centenary of Pol Bury's birth, Transcultures, in partnership with the Paragraphe laboratory (CiTu axis) of the Paris 8 University and CY Cergy-Paris University and in partnership with the European Pepinieres of Creation (“Emergences – Ars...
17 > 30.04.2023 | Residence – Geolocated sound creation – Tommy Lawson (Tg/Fr) | Transonic Lab La Louvière (Be)
For this first phase of a creative residency at Transcultures in La Louvière (BE), Tommy Lawson is scouting the site, both meticulously and poetically, by developing a "map of the territory" woven with sounds. He walks in the city listening to collect sounds, natural...
14 > 17.04.2023 | Akashic Diaries – Sonopoetic residence | Transonic Lab (Be)
Associated with the publication of a book and e-book “Akashic Diaries - Detroit Degree Zero and Other crisis writings” coming out this Spring from Europia (Paris) by American-Lebanese poet/performer/director Biba Sheikh, the Belgian sound artists Paradise Sonore and...
01.04 > 10.05.2023 | Jonathan Juste (Fr) – European Pepinieres of Creation Residency | Transcultures (Be)
This sound and digital arts residency by Jonathan Juste - 2023 European Creation Nurseries for Transcultures/Wallonia-Brussels Federation laureate - will firstly aim to give the artist time to enable him to finalize the "PPP XR Bury project" produced by the i Material...
16.03.2023 | Ambisonic session – Reimagining the City | Ideas Block – City Sonic Vilnius (Lt)
An "Ambisonic Session" (immersive technique for broadcasting a 360-degree surround sound environment) is specially offered , at Ideas Block-Kompresoriné (new cultural venue partner of Transcultures and European Pepinieres of Creation) in the exhibition "Reimagining...
13 > 19.03.2023 | Sonopoetics Residency – Kotrina Zilinskaité (Lt) + Paradise Now (Fr/Be) – Tortura | City Sonic Vilnius (Lt)
As part of the City Sonic Vilnius events planned for 2023 by Uziateka, Oasis of the Arts, European Pépinières and Transcultures, Kotryna Zilinskaité and Paradise Now are hosted for a week in residence at Kompresoriné - Ideas Block to create together a sonopoetic...
06.03 > 18.03.2023 | City Sonic Vilnius – Sound Camp #1 | Užiateka – Kompresorinė (Lt)
Transcultures, Užiateka, European Pepinieres of Creation and Ideas Block present City Sonic Vilnius Soundcamp, a sound art workshop (6 >11 March 2023) at Kompresoriné/ Ideas Block (Vilnius) featuring participants from Lithuania coordinated by Belgian and French...
06.03 > 16.03.2023 | Sound art creation and curation residency | Užiateka – Kompresorinė (Lt)
As part of a joint residency Pépinières Européennes (Fr), Transcultures (Be), Oasis Art, Užiateka, Ideas Block, (Lt), 3 Belgian (Philippe Franck) and French (Tommy Lawson and Christian Vialard) artists are invited to the Kompresorinė - Ideas Block from Vilnius for 10...
05.03 > 18.03 | Residence – Multiversum et alibi – Gleb Divov (Lt) | Transonic Lab Paris (Fr) – Vilnius (Lt)
Sound Changes the City, City Changes the Sound - Multiversum et alibiCreation residency This new piece explores the transformative power of sound in shaping urban environments. From the bustling streets to the tranquil parks, sound design has a profound impact on our...
04 > 26.02.2023 | Audioblast #11 – Network festival – Transmission of the Woods | Apo33 (Fr)
Audio in a network, Digital sound festival using the INTERNET as a venue for diffusing LIVE experimental, drone, noise, field recordings, sound poetry, electronic, contemporary music. The festival is streamed live online and in a quadraphonic sound system at the venue...
02.02 > 09.02.2023 | Signal exhibition – GMLR Arts2 (Be) ESÄ Tourcoing (Fr) Studio | Tourcoing (Fr)
The GMLR or twin studio is the cross-border sound studio common to the ARTS2 schools of Mons (Belgium) and the ESÄ Dunkerque-Tourcoing, site of Tourcoing (France). Like every year, following workshops (including the last in Tourcoing Art School during the week of...
Call 2023 | City Sonic Vilnius – Sound Camp #1 | Užiateka – Kompresorinė (Lt)
In partnership with European Pepinieres of Creation, Transcultures, Užiateka and its partners, City Sonic Vilnius launches a call for participation open to sound artists to participate in its first "Sound Camp", a project inspired by the diversity of the acoustic...
31.01 > 05.02.2023 | Zone Libre – Sound art festival 2023 | Bastia (Fr)
For the third time, Transcultures is an important partner of the Zone Libre - sound arts festival organized by the eponymous association in Bastia, which defends creative sound and digital practices both locally and internationally. As for the 2022 edition, Philippe...
14 > 18.01.23 | Sonopoetic residence – Maja Jantar (Be/Fi) + Paradise Now (Fr/Be) | Transonic Lab (Be)
Performer and vocalist Maja Jantar produced with her sound designer accomplice Paradise Now, after a first residency in Namur (BE) in 2021, a sonopoetic EP ‘Transonic Delta” on the Transonic label, which had also been the subject of a joint video titled ‘Clouds of...
30.12.2022 | Senis ir Jūra – Kotryna Žilinskaitė (Lt) – Sonopoetic performance | Ideas Block (Lt)
The “Senis ir Jūra” sonopoetic performance is the third and last event of this year's "City Sonic - Vilnius" - a sound experiential composition based on Ernest Hemingway's novel "The Old Man and the Sea" written in 1951 when the writer/journalist was living in...
Call 2022 | Exhibition + Audioblast festival #11 (sound & radio arts 2023) | Apo33 (Fr)
The APO33 association launches, in partnership with the European Pepinieres of Creation and Transcultures, a call for participation for sound pieces and bio-radiophonic transmissions. Each artist proposes a sound piece of approximately 1 hour or more to be...
13.11 > 06.12.2022 | Tommy Lawson (TG/Fr) Lecture – Geosonic explorations and interactions of digital audio creation | Arts2 (Be)
Re/composing space: geosonic explorations and interactions of digital audio creation For this multi-sound creator who likes to work in a contextual way, it is a question of apprehending the particularities of the territory and the daily surrounding world, by...
27.11.2022 | The most Bizarre Avatar Fashion Show | SLEA MusicLAB – Second Life (Int)
As part of the Lazy Sunday Show, a weekly event and space set up by the MusicLab organized in the SLEA region (Second Life Endowment for the Arts - organization supporting creation in Second Life), the artists A Limb (Be) & Livio Korobase (It) offering a sound and...