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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Re-ducing even more...

28-03-2022









During the fall and winter 21/22 we realized that if we would not reduce the accumulating work load we would just play into what we witness around us: a rising sensation of being overwhelmed and 'burnt out'.

Eventually we found interest in the word re-ducing itself:
To pull something back...
...back from or back towards?
...back from what and towards what else?

When looking at the things radical_hope will afford to continue with we see that we no don't add work.
And when finding the time to actually just do one thing well, the day is over.

For us it is important that we can remain respons-able -- giving a very literal example: respond to our emails for instance.

This does not mean that we don't understand that too many emails are too much to answer -- but it means to find out how to re-duce the amount of email-generating activity.

Yes, it all sounds banal -- but what does it really entail? What to re-duce in order to have time for living and finding joy beyond work?

How to work as little as possible?

How to identify less through our work?

Re-ducing also comes with the opportunity to take time to acknowledge what has been done and honour our work. 

We are happy we can look back to the past season and see all the fine work produced which brought  together many people. In a historically difficult moment as we are living now, gathering and working together is a great privilege. 

Here you go to our

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* Seasonal Refelections <<<
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- Codisco
- Through The House -- To The Lighthouse
- Poor Concerts at Minor NDako Anderlecht,
- Disclosing Practices ... Through Books
- Choreography as Conditioning
- Rising Warmth with some Detours