CV – Joke Caimo

Joke Caimo (they/she), born 1987, Leuven (BE). Contact: omiacoj@hotmail.com · Portfolio (PDF)

Solo Exhibitions

2026 – Solo presentation / exhibition – Q-O2, Brussels (BE) (28/09–24/10/2026)
2019 – ‘FlowerPower’ – Forbidden City, Antwerp (BE)
2015 – ‘Mega Solo Ensemble’ – Pinkhouse, Antwerp (BE)

Selected group exhibitions

2026 – Antwerp Queer Arts Festival – Antwerpen (BE)
2025 – 'Sonische Scene' – Hof ter Bist, Ekeren (BE)
2024 -’ moody ® 4.0 + painting MOODORGY-app’ – part of collection IKOB, Eupen (BE)
2024 -’Spells & Promises’ – Human Organ Concerto in groupexpo in The Creative Factory, Turnhout (BE)
2023 -’Samenschool Lekkers nr2’ – Pipe-organ instalation-with party, Antwerp (BE)
2022 – ‘Bienale MolRauw’ – how to live and survive as an artist (BE)
2021 – ‘Speculum Artium’, https://speculumartium.si/wp21/exciting-research/, Trbovje (SI)
2021 – ‘A new digital deal’ , https://ars.electronica.art/newdigitaldeal/en/interface-cultures , Linz (AT)
2021 – ‘High Voltage’, Academy of Arts Sint-Nilkaas (BE)
2019 – ‘Creating Empathy’, Spektrum & Transmediale, Berlin (DE) https://spektrumberlin.org/events/detail/exhibition-15-creating-empathy.html
2019 – ‘Time & Space – Here & Now’ – Antwerp (BE)
2019 – ’Shelf Publishing’ – MHKA, Antwerp (BE)
2018 – ‘KIKK-festival’: https://www.kikk.be/2018/en/program/kikk-in-town-1/werktank-overtoon-showcase-jo-caimo – Namur (BE)
2018 – ‘Son/Ton Festival’, Brussels (BE)
2018 – ‘Fake it – Fake you’, Hackers & Designers: Amsterdam (NL)
2018 – ‘Pragmatism and Self-organisation’, IKOB, Eupen (BE)
2018 – ‘Exciting Research’, EUROART, Nijmegen (NL)
2017 – ‘Dark Habitats, dark Ecology’, Spektrum, Berlin (DE)
2017 – ‘de Biënnale van België’, In De Ruimte, Ghent (BE)
2017 – ‘StormOpKomst’, Dilbeek (BE)
2016 – ‘November Music’, Kruithuis, Den Bosch (NL)
2016 – ‘Oorzaken-festival’, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbjv7iVFtvU De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (NL)
2016 – ‘Meervoud’ at Gallery Emergent, Veurne (BE)
2016 – ‘On Ice’together with Campo on an icerink, Ghent (BE)
2015 – ‘Die Sublieme Esthetica’ with: Human~Plant, In De Ruimte, Ghent (BE)
2014 – ‘Virus’ – Netwerk, Aalst (B)
2014 – ‘Medium of Everything’ – Zwarte Zaal, KASK, Ghent (BE)
2014 – ‘Mind the Gap’ – Verde Art, Waregem (BE)

Selected performances

2026 – Otherworldly Communications – Zine Launch – performance/event by Constant vzw, iMAL, Brussels (BE)
2025 – Human Organ Concerto – Summer Bummer Festival, Antwerp (BE)
2025 – 'Cyborg nonbinary Drag Show' – Anal Pompidou, Brussels (BE)
2025 – 'Megaphone-Ensemble' – In the streets of Antwerp (BE)
2024 – ‘Cyborg Joke Celestin Caimo’ – performance during queer event, Clit Pit, Antwerp (BE)
2023 – ’Estafette nr2 – guilty pleasure’ – performance in ‘De Dingen die niet verkopen’, Antwerp (BE)
2023 – ‘De langste toog’ – performance with selfmade cyborg-tools -Villa Delfia, Antwerp (BE)
2022 – ‘Exciting Research the Party’ – collective performance in Alimentation Ming Zhu Madrid (ES)
2021 – ‘Orelhas de mar – lingua de pau’ – performance during expo of Inés Ballesteros, Arara, Porto (PT)
2020 – ‘Artists in (online) residence’ – On Flemisch television: https://www.vrt.be/vrtnu/a-z/media—culture-fast-forward/1/media—culture-fast-forwards1a19/
2020 – ‘Koorvorming ONLINE’ Audio Art Festival Krakow http://www.audio.art.pl/ (PL)
2020 – ‘Koorvorming ONLINE’ a 4-months research-radio on https://www.inbetweenspaces.net/ (DE)
2020 – ‘Every street is a playground’ – protest met kinderen i.s.m. Inés Ballesteros – Stormopkomst, Dilbeek, Genk & Warande (BE)
2020 – ‘Koorvorming’ – Online via http://www.noisebombing.online/ (PT)
2019 – ‘Koorvorming’ – Utrecht (NL)
2019 – ‘Flowerpower-the movement’ – Schelde, Antwerpen (BE)
2019 – ‘totoiDROME-ensemble – toitoitDrome, Borgerhout (BE)
2019 – ‘Exciting Research’, Time and Space – Here and Now, Antwerp (BE)
2019 – ‘Between Laughing and Crying – Koorvorming’ – Europian Media Art Festival (EMAF), Osnabrück (DE)
2018 – ‘Exciting Research’, Etcetera, SMAK, Ghent (BE)
2018 – ‘Koorvorming -Sirenas’, IKOB, Eupen (BE)
2018 – ‘Exciting Research’, Pukkelpop, Hasselt (BE)
2018 – ‘Fake it – Fake you’, Hackers & Designers, Amsterdam (NL)
2018 – Megaphone-Ensemble, Beurschouwburg, Brussels (BE)
2018 – Human Organ Concerto, Muziek Instrumenten Museum, Brussels (BE)
2017 – Human Organ Concerto, Instruments Make Play, Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam (NL)
2017 – Vitamine D – Sunbathing, SMAK, Gent (BE)
2017 – Koorvorming, Hubs Imersive Festival, The Hague (NL)
2017 – Koorvorming, C-takt, C-mine, Genk (B)
2016 – Workshop and playing in Lisboa with Megaphone-ENSEMBLE (PT)
2016 – Koorvorming, November Music, Den Bosch (NL)
2016 – ‘How to document a performance’ at Belgium Performance Festival, VUB, Brussels (BE)
2016 – Koorvorming, Emergent, Veurne (BE)
2016 – Koorvorming, ‘Music for the Unconscious Collective’ https://soundcloud.com/user-645599201 at Quartair, Den Haag (NL)
2015 – paneltalk with the Rode Oortjes Meters, at the event ‘S.O.S. DADA. The world is a mess’. in Salon Suisse, Biënnale of Venice (IT)
2015 – Lurkende wezens abstract play of Publiek ENSEMBLE, (tour in BE &NL)
2015 – Breathing-device, radio with Bolwerk in Lodgers, Mhka, Antwerp (BE)

Residencies

2025 – Otherworldly Communications – by Constant vzw – in Morpho, Antwerp (BE)
2022 – Medialab Matadero Madrid residency: https://www.medialab-matadero.es/noticias/exciting-research-making-party (ES)
2021 – Self-made mobile residency (possibly everywhere, now in Linz (AT))
2019 – PAF (Performing Arts Forum, St Erme Outre et Ramecourt, (FR)
2018 – Hackers&Designers: Fake it! Fake you! https://www.hackersanddesigners.nl/s/Summer_Academy_2018/p/The_Energy_Between_People Amsterdam (NL)
2018 – Research and development – Oddstream, Nijmegen (NL)
2017 – Research and development – In De Ruimte, Ghent (BE)
2016 – InnerRhythms residentie + solo, de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (NL)
2016 – Making Koorvorming in The Hague with the support of iii: http://instrumentinventors.org/residency/jo-caimo/ (NL)
2016 – Research and development of the Human Organ Concert : http://www.overtoon.org/artist/jo-caimo/ – Imal & Overtoon, Brussels (BE)
2015 – Nonlocal Society exploration – through the whole Chilean country (CL), 2015
2014 – Research and development of the Rode Oortjes Meter : https://legacy.imal.org/en/fablab/residency/jo-caimo-rode-oortjes-meter -Imal Brussels (BE)

Releases

2026 – moody ® 4.1 – upgraded sellable product – Anwerp Queer Arts Festival, Antwerpen (BE)
2024 – moody ® 4.0 – first time for real a sellable product present during the whole year in IKOB, Eupen (BE)
2022 – moody ® 3.0 – next version with app and possibility to join the open source research about collective energy, in collaboration with a lot of people (ES)
2020 – ‘collectivesun.samenschool.org’, made possible by Mona, Mechelen (BE) in collaboration with Vincent Van Dijck(BE)
2018 – moody ® – next version of the Red Ears Measurer with wireless data-transmision, colaboration with Jorge Guevara(CU) and Pieter-Jan Beeckman(BE)
2017 – ‘Self-tanning Sunscreen’; released for installation in SMAK, Ghent (BE)
2016 – Booklet with CD; ‘JOIN the Megaphone-ENSEMBLE’, released on the Sorry-label, Antwerp (BE)
2015 – VHS-cassette + ELA-publication + poster of theMegaphone-Ensemble, released by Label KERM, Ghent (BE)
2014 – multifunctional suncreme ‘Factor 44’ for the exhibition ‘De Langste Nacht’ in the Factor44, Antwerp (BE)
2014 – the ‘Red Ears Measurer’ with no limit in production/ sold-out.
2013 – USB-release in the shape of a pill: ‘InnerRhythms’, edition of 100 copies – sold out (making new ones)
2013 – Cassette-release: ‘HumanRespirationMusic’, edition of 20 copies

Publications

2020 – … ‘Samenschool-Antenna’ with ongoing making publications: https://samenschool-antenna.bandcamp.com/
2020 – ‘Overlap’ released by Jonge Academie: https://www.jongeacademie.be/artikel/boek-overlap-no-mans-land-between-art-science (BE)
2020 – ‘kindertekeningen’ publication with Samenschool-antenna risoprinter
2020 – ‘Jo Caimo Camino Cambio’-pubication
2019 – ‘MOODORGY’ – self-made booklet about Exciting Research
2019 – ‘Samenschool- newspaper: Letterspoep’ – periodicaly published (BE and Int.)
2018 – Offspaces #6 – Sorry, Antwerpen, kunsten.be (BE)
2018 – Week vd Klank, Mim (BE)
2017 – ‘Van Dada tot Data’ Moti (NL) https://archive.org/details/MOTI_From_Dada_to_Data_BCK_2017/page/n15/mode/2up
2016 – Gonzo Circus # 135 article: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_oUd5yUOoioTGlWSWtvMDB2dms/view (B)
2016 – Tsonami Festival Catalogus: https://issuu.com/tsonamiartesonoro/docs/catalogo2015-issu/27?e=0 , Valparaiso Chile
2016 – Drawing-book of Netwerk, Aalst (BE)
2015 – ELA-publication about the Megaphone-Ensemble, KERM Label (EU)
2014 – ‘Mind the Gap’ publication, Verde Art , Waregem (BE)
2014 – ‘Update_5’ by Zebrastraat, Ghent (BE)

Artist-run platforms & initiatives

2025 – …ongoing – T_Cyberhol – cyberfeminist learning platform, workshops and collective technological experimentation, Antwerp (BE)
2019 – … ‘toitoiDROME’, Artist run media space with ongoing happenings and performances: www.drome.wtf
2018 – … ‘Samenschool’, Artist-run-space with ongoing happenings in Borgerhout (BE) and abroad: www.samenschool.org
2018 – ‘September Verklaring’, series of actions with the neighborhood, Samenschool, Borgerhout (BE)
2017 – ‘Chaos Yoga’, a bycicle-tour in the port of Antwerp (BE)
2017 – ‘Sorry-Partij’, 3 performance-evenings in 3 different cities (Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent) in Belgium
2016 – ‘Onbekwaam & Onbevoegd, een fietstochtje door de haven’, Antwerp (BE)
2016 – ‘Mega Solo ENSEMBLE’, Pinkhouse, Antwerp (BE)
2015 – ’Het testen van de Nieuwe Warmte – Multiple happening’, LIIIm3, Anterp (BE)
2014 – ‘Amplified Locomotion’ – a month-programme with the Megaphone-Ensemble everywhere in Central Station at the opening of the artsfestival Traffic#1, Antwerp (BE)

Radio

2018 – …’Trashkot’ – sunday from 15:00 UTC+1 till 16:30 UTC+1 @ Radio Centraal 106.7 FM, Antwerp (BE) http://www.trashkot.trashlinie.wtf/
2011 – 2017 ‘Aroom’ – together with Max Pairon sunday from 15:00 UTC+1 till 16:30 UTC+1 @ Radio Centraal 106.7 FM, Antwerp (BE)

Bands

2015 – … ‘Amanita Vulva’ – etnic noise tribe band (indians)
2014 – … ‘Megaphone-ENSEMBLE’ – variable musician-dansers (Int.)
2013 – … ‘Varkenshond’ – sectarian noise band with Kris Delacourt, Ed Van De Ven en Seb Dingens (BE)
2013 – … ‘Streams of Consciousness’ – in collaboration with everyone who wants to join (Int.)
2012 – …‘ Barbarian Connection’ – with Tomas Ditborn (CL), Sir Nicolas (CL), Max Pairon (BE)

Prizes

2023 – Selected collab digital creation and experience: https://www.vlaanderen.be/cjm/sites/default/files/2023-07/20230719_Overzicht_projecten_PO_2023-2024_VG-DG.pdf
2020 – Development-oriented grant of the Flemish community (BE)
2019 – Development-oriented grant of the Flemish community (BE)
2015 – STORMOPKOMST-prize with the project Human Organ Concerto – de Warande, Turnhout (BE)
2014 – Nominated artist for the ‘New technological Art Award’ – Update_5 http://www.ntaa.be/2014 , Zebrastraat, Ghent (BE)
2013 – ‘Test_Lab: The Graduation Edition 2013’ – V2, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam (NL)

Studies

2023 – 2025 Educative master in visual arts -KASK, Antwerpen (BE)
2020 – 2021 Interface Cultures – Art-University Linz: http://interface.ufg.ac.at/ (AT)
2017 – 2018 Mobile Applications – EHB, Brussels (BE)
2012 – 2013 Master Media-art – KASK, Ghent (BE)
2009 – 2012 Bachelor Visual Arts – Open Atelier – Sint Lucas, Antwerp (BE)
2006 – 2009 Bachelor Productdesign Kask, Antwerp (BE)