The Mothership figures as metaphor for the field of possibilities which technologies can open up. Drawing on experiments with the speaker as a medium, ecology of machines, networks and webs, cybernetics and feedback, affect, and unstable procedures and processes, the seven sound art installations in this exhibition explore these possibilities.

Ooooo & Isabel Burr Raty set up a laboratory for electromagnetic fields as shared energetic resource, The Endless Speaker built by Aernoudt Jacobs is haptic and amorphous; Mixed feelings by Charlie Usher invites visitors to dive into the unpredictability of found sound in and from boxes; Sonia Saroya & Edouard Sufrin have constructed a sculpture made from diodes and transistors which speaks of relation and is playable in duo; the issue of online networks and surveillance is unpacked in Jasmine Guffond's Listening Back where online cookies are made audible in an audio-visual installation; as a glimpse into a possible future, the movie caprizaen, a world made for robot goats, by Tintin Patrone is projected in loop; and finally an open source synthesizer tool based on the wave rings of pebbles thrown into water built by Laura Conant is available for the public to use.

The seven installations will be activated by the artists and some guests on three moments during the duration of the exhibition.

25.04, 16:00 Opening + expo activation by ooooo & Isabel Burr Raty and Sonia Saroya & Edouard Sufrin

29.04, 16:00 Guided tour + conversation #2 with Aernoudt Jacobs, Charlie Usher, and Sonia Saroya & Edouard Sufrin, moderated by Elena Biserna

02.05, 16:00 Expo activation, presentation tekhnē microresidents, performance by Diane Barbé & Marie Thompson

Oscillation ::: from the Mothership is a festival by Q-O2 werkplaats which will extend over ten days in the spring of 2026, with concerts, workshops, installations, and a discourse program. The festival will explore the relation between technology and diversity, and how this relation can be redefined by diverting tools from their original purpose. While understanding and unboxing technologies can instigate autonomous usership, the advent of new technological cultures has also sparked the imagining of other futurist worlds. Hacking and extending tools and instruments can open fields of possibilities, changing not only what music sounds like, but who it is produced by. The figure of the mothership, a vessel capable of carrying other vehicles and releasing them out into the world, will take artists and audiences through this festival.

More info here : https://oscillation-festival.be/2026/