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.
This year Ernst Maréchal and Heike Langsdorf are re(dis)covering a practice they have started up in 2018.
Using in-situ poor dramaturgy every time and again, Poor Concerts make sure that something is done, recorded, played back... ready to accumulate or being redistributed.
Things present -- sonically, visually, orally, physically, mentally -- are taken into account for a play unfolding ‘sur place’.
In January 2022, invited by Cie Squeezz to be part of VanKleinsAfAan (2020 - 2023), Heike Langsdorf and Ernst Maréchal were asked to take part in Lasso's project pARTicipe!. During one week, they worked in a children’s home at Minor N’Dako in Anderlecht, where they re(dis)covered their practice/s by arranging one or more Poor Concerts <<< per day.
In 2023 Maréchal and Langsdorf are invited by 2 Turven Hoog <<< to engage with their network in The Netherlands.
more about:
Het Brussels platform voor cultuurparticipatie | Lasso
VANKLEINSAFAAN - CIE sQueezz (cie-squeezz.com)
CIE sQueezz - ABOUT US (cie-squeezz.com)