BOZAR: anatomy of an institutional model for European immersive art

Catherine Ertzscheid

European XR is going through a gray area: ambitious works are proliferating, festivals are multiplying, public funding is intermittent, but few institutions are able to offer a stable, sustainable, and understandable model for the public. In this fragmented landscape, BOZAR, which has found its home in the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels (1928), appears to […]

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