CLIC (Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings Research Group) is happy to offer up to 5 short (1-2 months) paid Grant Writing Residencies in the period August-November 2026. Candidates will spend the Residency preparing postdoctoral fellowship applications for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) and the Flemish Research Foundation (FWO).

For this conference, we ask artist-researchers to consider: what was/were the motivation(s) to pursue a PhD in the arts? How has the actual experience of doing doctoral studies affected or influenced their practice? Have specific academic requirements and protocols modified their work process and, if so, in what ways? What obstacles, opportunities, and/or unexpected turns have been generated by working at the conjunction of two domains: the professional worlds of arts practice and the...

Every year, the Polyphonic Performance Spaces research festival brings the best of artistic research to Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel.  This edition explores The Sound of Brussels: the city’s exceptionally rich sonic heritage, -past, present, and future.

Shifting Cities is the name of the new album of Promenade Sauvage. The music on this album was inspired by countless small and large displacements that end on our cities’ ever moving shores, and by the dance of a place that we enter and make up as we go along. Most of all it is an ode to the beloved Brussels, whose friendly anarchy offers a warm embrace for souls off kilter, and where this album was recorded in a hot Covid summer on Luca’s little attic kingdom.

The PhD guide collects all kinds of practical info for doctoral students in the arts at KCB/RITCS/VUB.