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.

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ANOTHER DAY at THE HOUSE

10-06-2022 [• radical_house ]














[ ANOTHER DAY @ THE HOUSE ]
It's been a busy day, Friday, June 10, at the house with NOON collectief ending their residency, Miriam Rohde/oamr working on/with her 'invisible moves #1' and Joanneke Jouwsma & Ritam Hazarika trying-out their performance around the question 'How to (un)fold the body as a book as object?'


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NOON collectief works on deepening their understanding of how to create a soft immersive space. In previous works they have always worked in formats where the audience is scattered around in space, able to move around freely. They now feel the need to develop this playing together further and find new methods to invite the audience - to play, dance and rest together.
This research will enfold in several try outs during the year and is also the starting point for a new performative installation.


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invisible moves #1 : moving a library
"Books can drag, they are heavy, slow, tedious, cumbersome, collect dust etc. I don’t like the memories or nostalgia that keeps me from trying to get rid of certain books. Instead of a crisp, relevant and well composed selection of reading materials my library often feels to me like a more or less random compilation of stuff, surplus, excess, unrealised potential and potentially a monument of frustration. After two years I’ve decided to move my entire library and install it in another house to see what happens."
A project by Miriam Rohde / oamr


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Joanneke & Ritam
How to (un)fold the body as a book as object?
"Our research is a study into the relationship between the body to the book as an object. This study delves into concept of the book (as an object) and how it relates to the movements of the body. The results of this study finds its expression as a performance.
The performance questions the formal and performative aspects of a book, in which we explore the boundaries of poetry.
open
slam
browse
put down
tear up
burn
read
write
classify
bind
dictate
read out
stack
bookmark
keep
cut
discolor
number
print
design
collect
glue
publish
copy
translate
roll up
cover
Our moving bodies create and write poems in space. The poems are edited and preserved
in the moment itself."