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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Q&A with N.C.
How have your practices been transformed by the pandemic, if at all? Could you give a concrete example?
They did TRANSFORM , as THEY always DO. I worked less OUTSIDE, I worked THROUGH MUSIC in my SPACE and it is by GOING THROUGH that I managed to CONTINUE TO PRACTICE. Since I'm a GRAPHIC DESIGNER, and MAKE DRAWINGS as well I made SOME new stuff and SENT some SKETCHES to friends and PEERS. Since they know where I LIVE, they ALSO sometimes PASS BY and TAKE over my SPOTIFY... THEY sometimes SEND me SONGS as well, THROUGH that, I get my ENERGY back. IT doesn't ALWAYS RESONATE WITH ME as in my BEING, but the MORE EARS it can SEDUCE the BETTER.
Who or what has supported/accompanied this transformative process (or transition)?
FROM FRIENDS, from people FROM the PAST, TROUGH art, TROUGH WRITING and THINKING.and THINKING while DOING.
SITTING with the BODY in the morning (around 6) and PLAYING songs in the SHOWER to REFRESH my THOUGHTS from the DAY BEFORE. I am CONSTANTLY in the MOOD for something NEW.
Which role does radical_house have in this process? And which role you imagine could have in the future?
RADICAL HOUSE can PLAY a huge ROLE, or A SMALLER one, DEPENDING on HOW MUCH SPACE I want TO TAKE in it at THAT eXact MOMENT. I ALREADY LEFT some THINGS while I was THERE, and I WILL LEAVE some MORE if the HOUSE is CAPABLE of CARRYING IT and TAKING CARE of the THINGS. I don't know what WILL HAPPEN in the FUTURE...
But as LONG as it's PRESENTed and EXISTS, I will BE or HANG in THERE SOMEWHERE... in THOUGHTS, IMAGINATION or in MATTER.