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 OTΗOE - 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.
OTΗOE - 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. OTΗOE.
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CODISCO / sonic document by Social Recordings
During that day Ernst was recording sound while immersing himself into the activites going on, literally 'wearing' a made to measure microphone-set: what he catched from what was going on, often happened beyond his control... At certain moments he would also record May's reading-out-loud-performances of her poetic synthesis (of her by then collected notes) accompagnied by images of her drawings.
Find here his CODISCO - sonic document >>>
In the recent past he was founder and artistic director of Manoeuvre, a co-creative arts space in Ghent. Before that he created together with other artists and with many new Belgians (in collaboration with Globe Aroma & Kaaitheater) the projects: The Table Kitchen, Made in Belgium and Blue Key Identity. A shared research into the possibilities of integration as a dialogical process.
Now he is active as an artistic (PhD) researcher at RITCS School of Arts/VUB where, with the trajectory Social Recordings, he searches for the relational power of sound, for feedback as communication, for forms of open listening that enter into dialogue with the unknown and the antagonistic and for how, despite the differences, we are subject to (but also contribute to) the sonic space we share.