The Art of Resonance: Irene Revell & Sarah Shin

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.

The Art of Resonance: Marla Hlady & Christof Migone

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 12 November 2025 16:00

Marla Hlady and Christof Migone each have long-standing individual artistic practices. Marla Hlady’s work moves across and in-between sculpture, site, performance, kinetics, sound art and music performance. She is interested in how media variously function, systematically and culturally, and how these functions can be critically and productively re-imagined. Christof Migone works as an artist, teacher, curator, and writer. His research delves into language and voice, bodies and performance, intimacy and complicity, sound and silence, rhythmics and kinetics, translation and referentiality, stillness and imperceptibility, structure and improvisation, play and pathos, pedagogy and unlearning, and failure and endurance. They started to collaborate in 2015 in joint projects that combine pre-existing solo concerns and recurring strategies into works that accent site and sound space.

The Art of Resonance: Max Eastley & Rie Nakajima

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
Tue 14 October 2025 16:00

Max Eastley and Rie Nakajima each have long-standing individual artistic practices centered around sound and sculpture. Max Eastley is an internationally recognised artist who combines kinetic sculpture and sound into a unique art form. His sculptures exist on the border between the natural environment and human intervention and use the driving forces of electricity, wind, water and ice. Rie Nakajima creates sounds using combination of motorised devices and daily objects, either in installation form or during performances. Fusing sculpture and sound, her artistic practice is open to chance and the influence of others. Both artists have performed with numerous other artists and musicians, and started playing together in February 2025. The day after this listening sessions they will be performing at STUK, Leuven.