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Q(ee)R Codes<\/strong><\/p>\n

How does public space in brussels reflect our gender-specific assignations and positions?
\nUnder what conditions and for what reasons is a space perceived as safe or hostile for women, trans, queer and non-binary people?
\nBetween strategies of visibility and invisibility, what are our daily gestures of resistance and emancipation in the street and with others? And our queer gestures?
\nIs brussels a queer city?<\/p>\n

A participatory sound art project for Brussels’ public space, initiated by Anna Raimondo<\/a> with the voices of Gaia, Oph\u00e9lie Mac Coco, Agathe Yamina, Laura Nsengiyumva, A\u00efda Yancy, L.K, Quinn, Anniek Schalij, Marian Lens, Ansao Totolehibe.<\/p>\n

With the support of Anais Maes, Alderwoman for Urban Planning and the College of Mayor, Aldermen and Alderwomen of the City of Brussels.<\/p>\n

Q(ee)R Codes \u2013 New Boundaries BXL 1000 is part of a long-term nomadic art project initiated by artist Anna Raimondo in 2017. In Brussels, following the project BXL Universel II \u2013 multipli.city<\/a> at Centrale for contemporary art in 2021, the project will be continued from 2025 to 2030, thanks to a commission from the City of Brussels and the alliance of several people and institutional and associative partners.<\/p>\n

The project questions the experiences of women, trans, queer and non-binary people in their cities. Coming from a variety of geographical, cultural, generational, social and sexual backgrounds, the people the artist met were invited to take part in discussions and audio interviews with her. They recount and describe the spaces in the centre of Brussels that are most significant to them, sharing the sensations produced by these places, their stories, their memories and the projections that nourish them.<\/p>\n

Through listening and oral research on the one hand, and the creation of new spaces for imagination, confrontation and dialogue on the other, Q(ee)R Codes \u2013 New Boundaries BXL 1000 is intended to be a platform for reflection to tell and reimagine the place of women \u2013 understood in a broad, non-biological sense \u2013 and gender minorities in public space.<\/p>\n

The result is the production of 10 sound portraits, scattered around the city centre of Brussels, the locations of which are shown on the map available to the public. In each location, you\u2018ll find a QR code, appearing as a marble mosaic, that will allow you to listen to each audio.<\/p>\n

The title, Q(ee)R Codes, intentionally omits the letter \u2018u\u2019 from the word \u2018queer\u2019 to escape grammar and its norms, while its pronunciation indicates the tool for listening to the sounds.<\/p>\n

Q(ee)R Codes also evokes the gestures that have emerged during certain encounters. These are hand gestures that resist a fixed codification and which, in their particularity and the context in which they are received, open up a wealth of symbolism. They are reproduced in five of the ten locations.<\/p>\n

The project thus offers a map of Brussels 1000 mediated by voices, bodies and subjectivities intended as a call to listen, and as a moment of potential empathy with the voice we hear.<\/p>\n

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Concept and artistic direction: Anna Raimondo
\nInterviews, recordings, editing and realization: Anna Raimondo
\nEditing of the Flemish stories with: Ruby Bernabeu-Plous
\nAdditional recordings: Flavien Gilli\u00e9, Anne Lep\u00e8re
\nSound mixing: Flavien Gilli\u00e9
\nGraphics and illustration: Marzia Dalfini
\nJingle music: David Chazam
\nJingle voices: Ruby Bernabeu-Plous, Loes Jacobs, Anna Raimondo
\nCreation of the marble tiles: Mosaici Moruzzi
\nHead of production and communications: Dounia Mojahid
\nProduction: Moussem Nomadic Arts Centre
\nwith contribution from: nadine, Sveva Ventre, Romane Beau, Yanis Stefanou
\nTranslation in Dutch: Loes Jacobs
\nTranslation in English: Sarah Cale<\/p>\n