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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Imagine Work! A gathering by SPIN
[read more about SHOP_SHOP here >>>]
The artistic collective SPIN organizes a gathering with its friends and colleagues around the theme of artistic work. Participants have to prepare by sending in a short statement in response to the question: “If you were free to invent your way of working and your working conditions – what would you imagine?” The proposal of a possible, desirable or an imagined work-life can but doesn’t have to be realistic. Radical imagination is allowed.
Heike Langsdorf takes the opportunity to present the Shop-project to the group gathered by SPIN. This is the statement she sent in:
Right now
I imagine
a SHOP
yet without value for its surrounding,
situated amongst other basic-needs-shops,
in Brussels,
run by a group of artists,
paying the rent by selling what we can and want to produce ourselves,
by diving into the network of people, needs and resources existing 'sur place',
re-questioning commercialism as well as cooperation.
In the future
I can see that,
as a consequence,
this SHOP
will also serve as an administrative shelter,
facilitating the shop-extern activities of the respective artists.