ABOUT THIS SITE >>> This site is a blog as well as an archive: It gives visibility to the continues working of radical_hope & radical_house and holds documentation of the research projects Distraction As Discipline and OTÇOE - works for passers-by.
radical_hope (since 2010) creates and holds frameworks for artistic research/es & co-creation/s.
radical_house (since 2020), next to being a long term project on notions of ownership, privacy and privilege, provides a physical place in Brussels: here people can tempralrily cohabit with the permanent users of the house in order to work, rest or find shelter.
Distraction As Discipline (2015 - 2019) is
an investigation into enactivist principles in art and education
(research trajectory at KASK School
of Arts Ghent 2016-19). It considers the potential of performance art and
pedagogy in general, in resisting the current and massive
desubjectivation, by critically reclaiming both, attention for the moment and participation in a process.
OTÇOE - works for passers-by (2012 - 2014) was the development of radical_hope's artistic practice in the city and questioned how and by whom this practice (and its bodily, social and economical aspects) is perceived. The title refers to the public of a city and to how we encounter and register most things on our way through the city: Out of The Corner of Our Eyes. OTÇOE.
ANIMIERTES
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Wie wollen wir uns von einem Standpunkt des Nichtwissens auf gefundenes Material beziehen, auf Objekte, Texte, vorgefundene Situationen oder Gegebenheiten?
Wir wollen uns mit ‘Found Objects’ aber auch gefundenen Texten, Romanen und ihren Figuren, Informationen, Themen, Diskursen, Praktiken und deren selbstdarstellerischer Kraft auf die Bühne begeben. ‘Dinge’ die nicht nur als Metapher im Theater genutzt werden, sondern die ‘sich selbst’ auf der Bühne darstellen und die als zusätzliche Protagonisten zusammen mit Performer*innen und Publikum einen komplexen aber lesbaren Dialog eingehen.
Dabei gehen wir davon aus, dass ‘Dinge’ sich zu den Performer*innen verhalten, nicht nur Werkzeug sind, sondern eine eigene Physis haben. Sie müssen damit nicht unbedingt aktiviert werden, sondern funktionieren als relevantes gesellschaftliches Material, das wie eine Landschaft gelesen werden kann.
ANIMIERTES
How do we want to relate to found material, objects, texts, found situations or circumstances from a standpoint of ignorance?
We want to go enter the theatrical space with ‘Found Objects’, but also found texts, novels and their characters, information, topics, discourses, practices and their self-articulating power. ‘Things’ that are not only used as a metaphor in the theater, but that ‘represent themselves’ on stage and that, as additional protagonists, enter into a complex but legible dialogue with performers and the audience.
We assume that ‘things’ relate to the performers, are not just tools, but have their own physicality. They do not necessarily have to be activated, but they function as relevant social material that can be read like a landscape.