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.
Back Again I, a performance and video-work by Bureau Annex, is comissioned by Trouble Festival 2013 / Les Halles de Schaerbeek.
[read more on Bureau Annex here]
In a backroom of Taverne L’Evasion, a bar close to Les Halles, a choreographic slapstick scenario is executed by different actors several times a day during one week. The individual performances are filmed and the different video recordings are successively assembled into one single multi-layered film, creating a ghost-like effect. A swarm of individuals is seen executing the same (or similar) action simultaneously. After attending the 10 minutes long live performance in the café, the public is taken to a place nearby where the video-work is screened.
performance-audio Back Again 1: