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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Four References in the Fall of 2021

17-09-2021








4 References in the Fall of 2021

During the recent and current conversations, taking place in August and September between Simone Basani, Alice Ciresola, Heike Langsdorf and Miriam Rohde the following references are exchanged.

They are given in the context of...


exploring "how to create, think, make, maintain, live common places, how to observe without concluding, how to keep considering and re-considering, things, stories, people, situations, how to resist the urge to find and fix solutions — as a group, but also as an individual, how to embrace the challenge and accept the invitation to not decide, and how to find ways for learning all this together?" (Miriam)
>>> Samuel R. Delany's Heavenly Breakfast
www.open-frames.net/pdf/240-Heavenly_Breakfast__An_Essay_on_the_Winter_-_Samuel_R._Delany.pdf
[essay 1979]


investigating "how to make space in existing places? In dialogue, through artistic / life practices, of what places with their specific history, former and current inhabitants/users allow for, of what makes places relational and permeable and for whom, of how practices create closeness and distance to one another and of what of it contributes to the making of community, and what to avoiding or even destroying it?" (Heike)
>>> Roberto Esposito’s Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community
www.criticalatinoamericana.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Roberto_Esposito_Communitas_The_Origin_and_Destiny_of_Community_Cultural_Memory_in_the_Present__2009-1.pdf
[political philosophy book / 1998]


observing "that what happens with spaces happens through people’s contributions, undoings, through focussed or distracted attention/s, ignorant dwelling or also sheer neglect, and that what happened and can still happen is dependent on how people organised, used and reflected through radical_house so far, and how they will continue to do…" (Alice)
>>> Deborah Levy’s Cost of Living
https://media.oiipdf.com/pdf/b08afa0e-5a85-46f1-856f-247813b83115.pdf
[memoir / 2018]


thinking "of home making, the idea/ construction of family and childhood..." (Simone)
>>> Richard Billingham’s Ray & Liz
[movie 2018]