Q&A by Artists

Grand River: What is the most meaningful experience that formed you as a promoter since the first edition of Q3A?

Actually, we were and are over the past years right through to today, and surely tomorrow too, in a permanent state of wakefulness because we’ve recently been encountering such meaningful moments more and more often. Most recently the move into the new venue Waschhaus, but of course the whole phase with the pandemic had its importance. We tried to see the positives and to motivate ourselves daily to keep going. In the end we stepped out from our CEEYS anonymity and are working even now on a broader artistic profile as Brueder Selke. We wanted and want anything but doom-mongering. For us there are always the two sides of the coin trying to find balance. Especially these recent and still ongoing oppressive times with what’s become this cycle of dark visions of the future between plague and inflation, climate crisis and the rumble of war, it has once more emphasised the importance of our task and shown the way out of the tunnel of isolation, resignation, and loneliness toward meaningful, gracious events with friends and like-minded people.