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Around Philippe Franck gathered for ‘Lumen #5’, several creators and researchers (including Nathalie Stefanov – art critic, exhibition curator, teacher at the ” ESA Nord-Pas-de-Calais and associate researcher in the laboratory of the Center d’Etude des Arts Contemporains -…

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…

This public presentation celebrates the official release of the book “When technology meets puppetry” directed by Françoise Flabat and Philippe Franck…

The art of puppetry is an art of interdisciplinarity, borrowing, transforming and combining endlessly tradition and modernity, creating new and original theatrical forms, influencing other art forms. Lumen aims to be an opening for the sector of the puppetry arts…

The ‘alter label’ Transonic presents the audio catalogue of the 16th edition of the international festival of sound arts City Sonic, passing through various Belgian cities: Louvain-la-Neuve, Braine L’Alleud, Brussels, Wavre. These 25 pieces by international artists (Leo Kupper, Iancu Dumitrescu,…

“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.

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…

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…

As part of NoLA – No Lockdown Art 2020, the “Common Ground Project”, initiated and coordinated by the artist Kika Nicolela during confinement, proposes the creation of a growing database, with the collaboration of…

Dans le cadre du projet Correspondances confinées, Transcultures et les Pépinières européennes de Création ont demandé à plusieurs auteurs de différents pays d’écrire pendant le confinement leurs impressions poétiques…

Transcultures begins a new partnership with Lizières (Centre of culture and ressources) and the European Pepinieres of Creation for a series of artistic residencies in sound arts. For this first Residence hosted by Lizieres…

With ‘Digital Icons’, Transcultures, at the invitation of Central, is offering an exhibition in the museum exhibition spaces around mutations and translations of the various signs-images, data-images, networks-images which proliferate in…

In the framework of the participative project No Lockdown Art (NoLA), Transcultures and The European Pepinieres of Creation have commissioned  several authors/artists from different countries to write their poetic impressions…

Two intense evenings celebrated the 20th birthday of Productions Rhizome in Quebec City and Montreal, which were a new phase in the hybrid E-critures project initiated by Rhizome and Transcultures & organized annually alternately…

The compulsory confinement due to the pandemic forces us, beyond the postponements-cancellations of the activities previously planned, to reorganize ourselves and to rethink even further our modes of creation-production…

With ‘Digital Icons’, Transcultures, at the invitation of Central, is offering an exhibition in the museum exhibition spaces around mutations and translations of the various signs-images, data-images, networks-images which proliferate in…

At the suggestion of Transcultures, Césaré presents in the FARaway festival, an exhibition by the Brazilian visual artist Kika Nicolela, with three works offer variations on the idea of exchange and sharing…

Upstream the City Sonic 2019 ‘Winter sessions, an exhibition and events will take place at Martin’s Agora City Resort of Louvain-la-Neuve: plastic art creations, visuals and performances with a sonic dimension or evoking sound.

The inconstancy of summer is the pretext for an evening dedicated to the outdoor performance of instant musical dramaticules. The garden in which it will take place is not reduced to a place of welcome, it also means to…

For its twelfth edition to be held this summer, the biennale of contemporary art and heritage ARTour has chosen the theme ‘From one time to another’ From La Louvière to Soignies (Belgium), works are created for the occasion or…

This introductory lecture by Jacques Urbanska (with a background of comedian and theatre director and more recently intermedia artist and digital arts projects manager at Transcultures) will allow participants to grasp the idea…

Starting from a historical reminder of the experiences of various pioneers who integrated the electronic & media technologies – since the 50’s technologies – to their poetic creative process to take the language out of the page…

As part of the pluridisciplinal manifestation “Reste la lumière” coordonated by Lettres en voix, Transcultures partners with this association and it’s Québec partner Rhizome Productions and Bibliotheca Wittockiana to offer…

Quebec dancers / choreographers Manon Oligny and Maryline Daoust join forces with sound artists Philippe Franck and Isa Belle to create a performance starting from the blue color, poetically associating movement and sound…

For the second time, Transcultures is a partner of the International Meetings of Digital Arts of Abidjan who work to develop digital cultures in Côte d’Ivoire in collaboration with several European and international partners…

For its fifth edition, hosted by the Mons Mundaneum and organized as part of the cross-border project C2L3PLAY – Cross Border Living Labs, Vice Versa highlights the achievements and research of this living lab of the cross…

Le lieu moderne invites the Transonic label for a special evening around the new album L’échappée belle of the post electro pop duo Pastoral, which poses a look both surreal and poetic on the imaginary and resort areas of…

A stimulating and inventive reality, the presence of sound in contemporary art has been affirmed, without discontinuity since the 2000s, in current artistic practices. However, its history is old and, above all, it engages many…

This audio-video-poetic triptych was born from a literary commission (by Transcultures as part of the International City Sonic Sound Art Festival) to author / performer Charles Pennequin, around the notion of show from…

On the occasion of the release of the first album of the French/Belgian duet Pastoral entitled ‘L’échappée belle” on the Belgian Transonic indie label, this special evening offers a electro/post pop Pastoral concert and an exhibition of photographic/poetic diptychs…

With the multiform project L’échappée belle – an interdisciplinary collaboration begun in 2007, resumed in 2016 and completed in 2017 – Pastoral explore under a surreal, animist and poetic look, the imaginaries and living spaces of a provincial Wallonia…

‘Poévies’ is an audio-visual project with variable geometry and constant evolution initiated by Philippe Franck in complicity with Zoé Tabourdiot. It is about capturing intimate moments of contemporary French-speaking…

Following the workshop and collective exhibition ‘The Secondary Sonic Space’ initiated in October 2018 by the association Simultan and Timisoara, European Capital of Culture in 2021 in partnership with Transcultures and Pépinières…

Within his module of research in sound art at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Philippe Franck is inviting the Belgian sound and intermedia artist Alain Wergifosse for a workshop with Belgian and European visual…

‘Firebird’ is the result of an interdisciplinary writing residency conducted in Autumn 2018, between Paris (France) and Charleroi (Belgium), within the framework of the European Pepinieres of Creation…

Longtime transatlantic accomplices, Transcultures (Be) and Rhizome (Qc) are offering a new edition of ‘E-critures hybrides’. This bilateral event associates creation and reflexion by giving a new visibility to those poetic-intermedia…

For it’s fourth event, Le Lieu Moderne, in partnership with the alter label Transonic, invites for it’s fourth edition Paradise Now who’ll be presenting his new album Migrations (commissioned for an exhibition of Ivorian visual artist…

This meeting offers an introduction to the most singular and diverse artistic approaches and audio researches, inviting participants to make their curiosity audible and their listening active. Several artists from different backgrounds…

In the context of “Mon Père ce Robot ?”, Jacques Urbanska will lead a round table discussion about arts/science intersections, with Philippe Boisnard, Eric Minh Cuong Castaing, Lorena Jouven, Thomas Peyruse…

In the framework of ‘The Architects of peace’ event, the Mundaneum (Mons) wishes to tell the sotory of two founding “laboratories for peace”. The first, the Peace Palace in The Hague, striving for peace through international law…