Constant had the pleasure to take part at the opening of the project Q(ee)R Codes - New Boundaries BXL 1000 by sound artist and radio maker Anna Raimondo.

Opening & Sound Walk : Saturday 29 March 2025 at 14:00 at the Monument to the Pigeon-Soldier - Schuitenkaai 1 Quai aux Barques, 1000 Brussels

Q(ee)R Codes – New Boundaries BXL 1000 is part of a long-term nomadic art project initiated by artist Anna Raimondo in 2017. 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.

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 – New Boundaries BXL 1000 is intended to be a platform for reflection to tell and reimagine the place of women – understood in a broad, non-biological sense – and gender minorities in public space.

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‘ll find a QR code, appearing as a marble mosaic, that will allow you to listen to each audio.

The title, Q(ee)R Codes, intentionally omits the letter ‘u’ from the word ‘queer’ to escape grammar and its norms, while its pronunciation indicates the tool for listening to the sounds.

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.

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.

A collaboration between Moussem Nomadic Arts Centre, Centrale for Contemporary Art, nadine, ARBA, BNA-BBOT, QO2, Radio Panik and Constant. With the support of Anaïs Maes, Alderwoman for Urban Planning and the College of Mayors, Aldermen and Alderwomen of the City of Brussels, Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie, Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles.