ABOUT THIS SITE >>> This site is a blog as well as an archive. It gives visibility to the continues working of radical_hope, its current move to radical_house, the research project Distraction As Discipline (2016 - 2019) and the process of OTÇOE - works for passers-by, a working trajectory (2013 and 2014).

radical_house is a long term project and has a threefold nature: it presents a physical place, a framework and a logic. When in 2013 teaching and mentoring became an extension of Langsdorf's artistic practices now radical_house stems from her pedagogical experience where 'being in dialogue' with others is her main principle.

Distraction As Discipline 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 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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CONVERSATIONS

BAGS 2019

14-09-2019 [• making images • in practice • Discrete Guidance ]
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For NIGHT SHIFT
closure of Het TheaterFestival --
invited by Gouvernment --

SEP 14 -- 6 pm until 6 am -- Vooruit / Ghent

During twelve hours BAGS will offer a precair presence.
At once brutallly dependent and radically detached from the attention of others a body will surrender and migrate. Regardless to whether you notice her or not.

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Th(s)ing(k) freely along during Nightshift at Vooruit or from a far.

[sincere gratitude to all the bags in this world and The Beatles <<<]

 
Hey Bag, what are you for
Take a good song and make it worse
Remember what you see with your heart 

That, oh lord, can be made better

Hey Bag, please stay around
You weren’t made to be just invisible
When the cold is leaking out of your skin
Then you begin to make me wonder

And anytime I feel the pain
Hey Bag, remain
Don’t put the world upon my shoulders`

For well you know that it's a fool
Who plays it cool
By making his world a little colder

Na-na-na, na, na
Na-na-na, na

Hey Bag, don't let me down
I have found you, now go and hold me tight
Remember what you see with your heart
That oh lord, can be made better

So let it out and let it in
Hey Bag, begin
You're waiting for someone to perform with

And don't you know that it's just you
Hey Bag, you'll do
The movement you need is on my shoulder

Na-na-na, na, na
Na-na-na, na, yeah

Hey Bag, just be my creep
Take a good song and make it worse
Remember what I see with my heart
That, oh lord, I can make better

Better better better better better, ah!
Na, na, na, na-na-na na (yeah! Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Na-na-na na, hey Bag
Na, na, na, na-na-na na
Na-na-na na, hey Bag
Na, na, na, na-na-na na
Na-na-na na, hey Bag
Na, na, na, na-na-na na
Na-na-na na, hey Bag (Bag Bag, Baggy Baggy Baggy,
Na, na, na, na-na-na na (my, my, my)
Na-na-na na, hey Bag (Bag, Bag, Bag, Bag, Bag)
Na, na, na, na-na-na na (yeah, yeah, yeah)
Na-na-na na, hey Bag (yeah, you know you can make it, Bag, Bag, you're not gonna break it)
Na, na, na, na-na-na na (don't make it bad, Bag, take a good song and make it worse)
Na-na-na na, hey Bag (oh Bag, Bag, hey Bag, wa!)
Na, na, na, na-na-na na (oh Bag)
Na-na-na na, hey Bag (hey, hey, hey, hey)
Na, na, na, na-na-na na (hey, hey)
Na-na-na na, hey Bag (now, Bag, Bag, Bag, Bag, Bag)
Na, na, na, na-na-na na (Bag, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Na-na-na na, hey Bag
Na, na, na, na-na-na na
Na-na-na na, hey Bag (na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na)
Na, na, na, na-na-na na
Na-na-na na, hey Bag
Na, na, na, na-na-na na
Na-na-na na, hey Bag
Na, na, na, na-na-na na (yeah, make it, Bag)
Na-na-na na, hey Bag (yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!)
Na, na, na, na-na-na na (yeah, yeah yeah, yeah! Yeah! Yeah!)
Na-na-na na, hey Bag
Na, na, na, na-na-na na
Na-na-na na, hey Bag
Na, na, na, na-na-na na
Na-na-na na, hey Bag
Na, na, na, na-na-na na
Na-na-na na, hey Bag