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SHAPE+ Open Call 2024/25

07.03.2024

This is a call for musicians and artists working with sound for the third year of the SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and audiovisual art co-funded by the European Union.

[SHAPE+] New artist roster announcement

The European Union-funded SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and audiovisual art is announcing its 2023/2024 list of artists. The artist selection places a number of audiovisual projects and sound artists alongside musical acts that range...

Second Wave of Acts Announced for SHAPE+ Showcase with Mutant Radio

24.06.2023 - TbilisiGeorgia

SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and audiovisual art, co-funded by the European Union, announces the second and final wave of acts of the collaborative showcase with Tbilisi’s Mutant Radio. The two-day event will happen over two...

Shape announces new partners and first acts of mutant radio showcase

15.06.2023

SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and audiovisual art, co-funded by the European Union, announces the first acts of the collaborative showcase with Tbilisi’s Mutant Radio and two new partner organizations, starting with its next working period. The...

SHAPE+ platform announces open call for 2023/2024

SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and audiovisual art, co-funded by the European Union, announces a new open call for artist submissions for its next working period: July 15, 2023 – July 14, 2024 SHAPE+ aims...

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SHAPE+ platform starts, announces open call

30.04.2022

SHAPE+ is a new European platform for innovative music and audiovisual art co-financed by the Creative Europe programme. Running for the next three years, SHAPE+ will foster exceptional emerging talent, connecting them to local communities...

SHAPE is a platform for innovative music and audiovisual art from Europe. It consists of 16 festivals and art centres and aims to support, promote and exchange innovative and aspiring musicians and interdisciplinary artists with...

SHAPE platform & Crack Magazine announce online collaboration

On March 16 and 23, SHAPE platform for innovative music and audiovisual art will collaborate with the Bristol-based magazine and online media Crack on a string of online premieres of performances, video works, compositions and...

Kali Malone. Photo by Helena Goni.

Kali Malone presents Does Spring Hide Its Joy at INDIGO Festival

14.10.2021 - Cukrarna

We’re happy to announce SONICA festival’s collaboration with INDIGO festival, presenting the SHAPE Platform artist KALI MALONE with her project Does Spring Hide Its Joy featuring Lucy Railton and Stephen O’Malley. Does Spring Hide Its...

SONICA Series x Kino Šiška: Mopcut

08.10.2021 - KinoSiska

Welcome to Mopcut, layered, noisy, all-pervading ecstasy of noise rock, free jazz, free improv, electronic music, all at the same time. MOPCUT is Lukas König, Audrey Chen, and Julien Desprez. Their objective is a construct...

SONICA Series x Kino Šiška: JULIA REIDY

08.09.2021 - KinoSiska

Australian string player, vocalist, electrophonist and improviser Julia Reidy is one of the more intriguing names in the field of contemporary guitar music, “bringing to mind everything from Hope Sandoval to late-era Talk Talk, Jim...

Yantan Ministry at Grounded Festival

18.08.2021 - FestivalGroundedLjubljana

SONICA Festival will happen this year. But before that join us at our pre-events. Next week, we’re partnering with Grounded Festival to present one of this year’s SHAPE Platform Artists, Yantan Ministry. Yantan Ministry is...

Black Pulse and Etceteral at Kamfest

12.08.2021 - Kamnik

We are pleased to announce that we are once again partnering with Kamfest to present a musical evening on the Barutana Stage at Kamfest. The event is a pre-event of the SONICA Festival: Labyrinth gives...

Riccardo la Foresta and Lukas Koenig at Sajeta Festival

08.07.2021 - Tolmin

We’re happy to announce SONICA festival’s collaboration with SAJETA festival, presenting two SHAPE Platform artists: Riccardo la Foresta and Lukas Koenig. RICCARDO LA FORESTA (ITA) Thursday, 8 July at 18:00 Tolmin Public Library “Ciril Kosmač”...

Lisa Stenberg: ZONE at Construction Festival

18.06.2021 - ConstructionFestDnipro

Lisa Stenberg: Zone (2018) quadrophonic sound installation   Zone was premiered in 2018 at the Biological Museum in Stockholm, a museum built in 1893 inspired by the Norse wooden churches known as “stavkyrkor”. The museum...

SHAPE platform announces 2021 list of artists

The Creative Europe-supported SHAPE platform for innovative music and audiovisual art is announcing its 2021 list of artists. The artist selection for the platform’s seventh year traditionally places a number of audiovisual projects and sound...

KӢR LIVE 360* // SHAPE & XLR8R

22.11.2020 - online

We're happy to announce tomorrow's exclusive live stream of Bescenje, a comission by SONICA Festival for SHAPE x XLR8R collaboration. The piece teleports us to the atrium between the Palace of Albania and the Cultural...

SHAPE platform & XLR8R announce two-week collaboration

11.11.2020 - online

A sort of a two week online festival will present live video streams or exclusive audio/video material from a different artist each night. Tune in every day at 19:00 CEST.

SHAPE announces guest showcase at Urvakan 2020

05.05.2020 - JerevanArmenija

SHAPE announces guest showcase at Urvakan 2020 The “Creative Europe”-supported SHAPE platform announces a large showcase at Urvakan festival in Yerevan, Armenia, May 5 – 9. This will be the fifth large SHAPE showcase outside of the...

SHAPE platform 2020

01.01.2020

SHAPE platform announced its 2020 list of artists and it’s bringing you a fresh roster of 48 need-to-hear and see Europe-based artists, selected by the platform’s festivals, including SONICA festival. Once again placing a number...

SHAPE platform announces 2019 list of artists

The Creative Europe-supported SHAPE platform for innovative music and audiovisual art is announcing its 2019 list of artists. The artist selection for the platform’s fifth year traditionally places a number of audiovisual projects and sound...

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ModularRelations Conference & SONICA Berlin Showcase

28.10.2017 - ZKU-ZentrumfrKulturundUrbanistik

Relations of Matter, Light, Space and Sound – Modular Relations is joining an exhibition, a symposium, workshops, performances and an audiovisual night program. Three organisations: ZK/U – Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, MOTA – Museum...

SONICA Agency announces its new artists in 2017

17.01.2017

SONICA Agency announces its new artists in 2017 We’re happy to announce the names of three new artists represented by MoTA’s artist agency. We’re starting the year with the Slovenian electronic music producer Christian Kroupa...

SHAPE November showcases and other news

November sees the member festivals of SHAPE, the Creative Europe supported platform for innovative music and audiovisual art, organizing the final showcases with SHAPE artists of 2016.

SHAPE at Novas Frequências and October showcases

October proves to be one of the busiest months for SHAPE and its artists and festivals, with no less than 8 festivals across Europe presenting dozens of SHAPE artists. musikprotokoll (29 Sept – 9 Oct,...

SONICA pre-event: Takami Nakamoto & Sebastien Benoits: REFLECTIONS

10.09.2016 - KrizevniskaCerkev

A parisian duo that embraces the idea of Bauhaus of the future. Highly innovative work with sound / light / structures brings a powerful electrified performance to the scenic Krizevniska church!

SHAPE – August News

Read about upcoming concerts and lectures at participating festivals of SHAPE – the Creative Europe supported platform for innovative music and audiovisual art. The Hague’s TodaysArt festival has announced its program, whilst Skaņu Mežs and...

SHAPE platform’s summer showcases and other news The SHAPE artist list of 2016 has been amended slightly – due to personal reasons that keep her from travelling and performing in the second part of the...

(Slovenščina) MoTA – Muzej tranzitornih umetnosti in festival SONICA vabita glasbenike in glasbenice, glasbeno audiovizualne skupine, ter zvočne in interaktivne umetnike in umetnice na odprti poziv za predstavitev na mednarodni platformi SHAPE.

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Museum of Transitory Art

MoTA –

Museum of Transitory Art

MoTA is a multidisciplinary platform dedicated to advancing the research, production and presentation of transitory, experimental, and live art forms.

MoTA is a museum without a permanent collection or a fixed space. Instead, its programs are realised in different locations and contexts in temporary physical and virtual spaces.

MoTA organizes and supports transitory art in the form of continuous events, exhibitions and educational programs both locally and internationally. As its name indicates, MoTA examines what a museum can be today and in the future.

MoTA is in constant search for the new, the uncertain, and the undefined.

MoTA works on several continuous programmes & projects. We run MoTA Point – a Space for Art & Ideas, we curate and produce the annual SONICA Festival, in addition to regular music programmes such as SONICA Series and SONICA Classics.

Within the years of running our residency programme, we’ve established T.R.I.B.E. – a network of residency spaces in the Balkans & Eastern Europe.

We’ve also initiated the research and archive platforms ArtistTalk.eu and Mediateque MoTA & Tomaž Brate. Our educational programmes serve a broader audience with ongoing workshops, talks, symposia, and internships.