Q-O2.be – info@q-02.be – previous editions
Oscillation is a project by Q‑O2 werkplaats, organised by Julia Eckhardt, Caroline Profanter, Henry Andersen, Ludo Engels, Christel Simons, Dries Robbe, Maria Margolina, Emilia Elouardi, Leo Van Damme, en Z.
Hannan Jones and Shamica Ruddock present Re-Imagining In-Conversation, a research-based sonic venture encompassing speculation, jazz poetics, improvisation and dreaming. The performative exploration of the in-conversation format extends a myriad of identified shared and diverging research interests spanning Eduoard Glissant’s Poetics of Relations to Female Voices in Revolution: Autobiography and Collective Memory in Assia Djebar’s Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade and Merle Collins’s Angel; a text placing the orality of Algeria in relation to the oral traditions of the Caribbean. For this iteration, they work with a combination of electronics, percussion, and wind.
Hannan Jones’ research draws parallels of personal and collective histories; navigating this through themes of hybridity through language, rhythm, and psycho-geography. Shamica Ruddock’s current research considers sound cultures and Black Sonic Modalities. Fugitivity and refusal are also resonant departure points. Together they have an ongoing shared project, Re-Imagining In-Conversation. Performances include Counterflows (UK), Silent Green (BE), Savvy Contemporary (BE) and Madeira Dig (PT), alongside Residencies with CCA Glasgow, and Akademie Schloss Solitude.