Category: Curated Programs

The research cluster THE ART OF RESONANCE (KASK & Conservatory Gent) is organising a series of informal listening sessions with international artists and researchers, with an eye (and ear) to cultivating a sonic sensibility and relationality.

Herculeslab — KASK & Conservatorium / School of Arts Gent
Wed 25 March 2026 16:00

Paul Abbott is a musician and drummer. He plays with the drum kit, synthetic sounds, performance and writing. He explores music as an ecology: in which the interaction of sounds, signs and the physical body grow real and imaginary music. His work is often concerned with creating practical and fictional structures to facilitate improvisation and experimental musical play. Projects include: XT with Seymour Wright; XT+Pat Thomas; Kavain Wayne Space (RP Boo) Trio with XT; XT+Anne Gillis; X Ray Hex Tet; yPLO with Micheal Speers; F.R.David, very good* & Rosmarie with Will Holder; film sound for Keira Greene and The Creaking Breeze Ensemble with Nathaniel Mackey. He was a co-founder and co-editor of Cesura//Acceso journal for music, politics and poetics, and completed Creative Music Practice PhD research at Edinburgh University, titled “Playing no solo imagination: synthesising the rhythmic emergence of sound and sign through embodied drum kit performance and creative writing.”

The research cluster THE ART OF RESONANCE (KASK & Conservatory Gent) is organising a series of informal listening sessions with international artists and researchers, with an eye (and ear) to cultivating a sonic sensibility and relationality.

Herculeslab — KASK & Conservatorium / School of Arts Gent
Thu 12 February 2026 16:00

Edward George is a writer, broadcaster and photographer. A founding member of Black Audio Film Collective, he wrote and presented, among others, the seminal essay film Last Angel of History (1996), which helped pave the way for contemporary thinking around Afro-futurism. George was part of the multimedia duo Flow Motion and the electronic music project Hallucinator. His ongoing radio series The Strangeness of Dub and The Strangeness of Jazz intertwine a broad musical selection with different geographical musical histories, African/Afro-diasporic knowledge and critical theory from queer and black studies. His recent work includes Dub Housing, a project exploring how dub music articulates a different consciousness of people and place, time and geography, history and architecture, race and metropolis, and Black Atlas, a moving-image essay exploring the Image of the Black archive which was recently exhibited at the Warburg Institute.

The research cluster THE ART OF RESONANCE (KASK & Conservatory Gent) is organising a series of informal listening sessions with international artists and researchers, with an eye (and ear) to cultivating a sonic sensibility and relationality.

Herculeslab — KASK & Conservatorium / School of Arts Gent
Thu 27 November 2025 16:00

Irene Revell and Sarah Shin are both curators, writers, editors and researchers who work with artists across sound, text, performance and moving image. In 2022 Irene completed her practice-based doctoral thesis, Live Materials: ‘Womens Work’, Pauline Oliveros and the Feminist Performance Score, with a focus on the curatorial challenges posed by text instruction scores and related live ephemera. She is currently developing a long-term project that attends to artists working with text/instruction/scores in areas that span queer-feminist and decolonial listening, disability justice and expanded forms of practice that might be termed “score-thinking”. Sarah co-founded Silver Press in 2017, and the experimental platform Ignota a year later, after a decade at Verso. Dedicated to collaboration, Shin is also a founder of Standard Deviation, a collective exploring the coincidence of psychic, geometric and inhabited spaces, and New Suns, a curation and storytelling project from feminist perspectives and practices. In 2024 they launched the anthology book project Bodies of Sound: Becoming a feminist ear, which offers a resonant exploration of feminist sonic cultures and radical listening. Bodies of Sound will be presented the day after, 28 November, at Rile Books in Brussels.

This event is supported by the Doctoral School for Humanities and Social Sciences, KU Leuven, and LUCA School of Arts, in collaboration with VUB and the research cluster The Art of Resonance (KASK School of Arts). It is made possible through OJO funding, with the support of the Flemish Government.