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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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Body Parts / Rituals for Future Feminism by C.G. Huber

11-06-2022 [• radical_house ]










[ C.G. HUBER @radical_house / June 11 - 20 ]

𝔹𝕠𝕕𝕪 ℙ𝕒𝕣𝕥𝕤
ℝ𝕚𝕥𝕦𝕒𝕝𝕤 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝔽𝕦𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕖 𝔽𝕖𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕤𝕞 (𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕜𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕥𝕚𝕥𝕝𝕖)
a research

The Black Madonna and the tradition of her miraculous work have been for over 500 years a great importance for the population of the region where C.G. Huber grew up.
What meaning can votive offerings brought to the Black Madonnas, still have today? These objects are replicas of parts of the body, which as symbols mean "please" and "thank you" at the same time. Today, in addition to objects molded in wax or metal, they include lungs, hearts, feet, legs and hands, corona viruses and are brought to pilgrimage sites like Altötting, Czestochowa/Poland or Guadalupe/Mexico.

In the research C.G. Huber is interested in the relation to the use of duplication/mirroring of limbs in the treatment of phantom limb pain after a personal experience with mirror therapy, when Huber's arm was paralyzed for six months after an accident. What performative actions/practices/rituals can be derived from the use of votive offerings in the purpose of a feminist healing practise.