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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Open Field gathering
This programme is dedicated to the possible futures and autonomies of artistic research.
What comes to mind when you hear the words autonomy and future in relation to artistic research? Can you imagine them, or notice where they already unfolding? What tools do you have, or need to develop, to practice them and make them sustainable, especially within collective practices?
Through these questions, a.pass invited three artistic collectives, One Field Fallow (BE), Topote de Acahual (MX), and Arquitectura Expandida (CO), to each identify an urgent topic at the end of their research residency. Their responses have become the titles of the first three days of the gathering: “Scripts and Protocols for Collective Spaces”, “Foreshadowing Amid Turbulent Futures”, “Manifest Everyday Urban Utopias”. Three topics to be explored collectively by a multiform constellation of research-based practices.
The fourth day starts off on the right foot: Breakfast for Insatiable Researchers invites you to meet art workers in Brussels who have long supported artistic research, mostly without structural funding. Directly in the spaces where they usually work. Food for thought, for practices, and more! In the afternoon, the gathering documentation group will share traces from previous OpenField moments during a Memory-Making Session, and create space for contributions from everyone.
The fifth day is dedicated to a working session, Collabora(c)tion: Futuring Artistic Research, for organisations, educational institutions, and collectives who want to explore how to join forces and continue (or begin) creating shared spaces, time, and energy for artistic research.
>>> Find the full programme via: www.apass/openfield
With radical_hope_house we are one of many artists and organisations of different kinds, parttaking in this intense line-up.
We are looking forward to be able to testing a new work by radical_hope on May 6, in the context of Manifest Everyday Urban Utopia at Beursschouwburg and to hosting one of the Breakfast-sessions for Insatiable Researchers scheduled for May 7, at radical_house.