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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La Collectionneuse Maïte Álvarez

28-04-2021 [• radical_house • curatorialS ]









La Collectionneuse - Maïte Álvarez for JEANNE collection @ radical_house (27-30 April 2021)

Artist Maïte Álvarez is among the artists commissioned to create a work for “Jeanne. Or the Western Touch”, a collection curated by Simone Basani and Alice Ciresola. The project - inspired by the controversial relationship Belgian art collector and dealer Jeanne Walschot established with her collection of African artifacts - explores European desires to meet the Other and the Unknown but also to control, own, and exoticize them.

In ‘La Collectionneuse’, Maïte Álvarez invokes Jeanne Walschot’s spirit. By bringing her own personal collection inside the Gruuthusemuseum, Bruges, and manipulating it in playful, seductive, possessive ways, Álvarez reconstructs the physical relationship Jeanne Walschot had with her collection. 

After her residency at radical_house, Maïte Álvarez will present ‘La Collectionneuse’ at the Gruuthusemuseum, Bruges, in the frame of "Mind the Artist" festival, organised by KAAP & Musea Brugge. Première: 9 May 2021. 

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ph: Maïte Álvarez