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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Poor Concerts

19-03-2022 [• making images • Hands On / AllReadyDada • in practice ]






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’.

Scenographically, their set-ups allow for those willing to join to contribute to what is always already there: the stuff around us and us interacting.

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.


Documentation/S Poor Concerts at Minor-Ndako <<<

In May and October 2022 Poor Concerts were also programmed at De Rinck during two Art Days Cie Squeez collaborated on.

Journée des Arts VanKleinsAtAan <<<

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In 2023 Maréchal and Langsdorf are invited by 2 Turven Hoog <<< to engage with their network in The Netherlands.


more about:

pARTicipe! | Lasso

Het Brussels platform voor cultuurparticipatie | Lasso

VANKLEINSAFAAN - CIE sQueezz (cie-squeezz.com)

CIE sQueezz - ABOUT US (cie-squeezz.com)