ABOUT THIS SITE >>> This site is a blog as well as an archive. It gives visibility to the continues working of radical_hope, its current move to radical_house, the research project Distraction As Discipline (2016 - 2019) and the process of OTÇOE - works for passers-by, a working trajectory (2013 and 2014).

radical_house is a long term project and has a threefold nature: it presents a physical place, a framework and a logic. When in 2013 teaching and mentoring became an extension of Langsdorf's artistic practices now radical_house stems from her pedagogical experience where 'being in dialogue' with others is her main principle.

Distraction As Discipline 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 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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SEASONAL REFLECTIONS

NEWSLETTERS

TIMELINE

MAIN PRACTICES

bodily
SITTING WITH THE BODY 2013 ...
social
BUREAU ANNEX
economical
SHOP SHOP
educational
DISTRACTION AS DISCIPLINE 2016-19
relational
radical_house 2020 ...

CONVERSATIONS

Imagine Work! A gathering by SPIN

08-06-2013 [• workshops etc. ]
... another situation within which - amongst other things - the shop shop-proposal could be further discussed, doughted and confronted.
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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.