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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BUREAU ANNEX
Bureau Annex is an artistic practice embedded in the wilderness of different social environments. It arose from an experiment which Heike Langsdorf and Christiane Huber conducted in 2010 in the Brussels North railway station, where a lot of different people pass their time for different reasons. Without any expectations, a priori ideas or plans, they ‘hung out’ there several times and little by little meetings with the local ‘residents’ of the North Station, started to occur. After a while, they created a performance together, which was part of ‘Postcards From the Future’, an public art project by the art collective C&H.
To this day Langsdorf continues working with the people she met in 2010. Since then, the group has evolved and become more diverse: some participants left, others arrived. The core interest of Bureau Annex is to produce art works together with people from different social levels, who relate to art differently. They find each other through a loose structure, based on affinity. The artist enters an urban reality in which he or she normally isn’t present. As a consequence, a lot of conventions connected to the production of art, are questioned.
Connecting people and content back from where the previous work ended, Bureau Annex produces independent works irregularly and occasionally but continually. As part of OTÇOE - works for passers-by, Bureau Annex is developping a series of small performative works.
[more on the initial experiment >>> ]