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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A LISTENING WEEK
A LISTENING WEEK, April 25 & 27
An
initiative of Social Recordings & RITCS School of Arts in collaboration
with ARGOS.
The lectures take place in ARGOS <<< and start at 20:00.
Is listening always a listening to the other? Do we give voice by listening to the other?
Do we together -- as acoustic bodies -- create a common space that we fill with sound?
A space where we find ways to relate to one and other? How do we use acoustics to shape the attention this requires?
In a first presentation Brandon LaBelle (25/7) will pose the question of acoustics as a critical and creative framework. I
n particular, acoustics will be underscored not only as a property of space, nor as a specialized knowledge, but equally as a social and political issue.
In a second lecture and talk Budhaditya Chattopadhyay (27/7) discusses how hyper-listening and co-listening together underscore emancipatory acts of listening
towards generating an acoustic solidarity to provide solace, care and empathy in times of turmoil and crises.