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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SHOP SHOP OPENING DAY & NIGHT
Welcome to the Big Opening Day of ShopShop
28 March @ Ribaucourt Street 112
metro: Ribaucourt
7am - 12pm
Various activities and products
on sale for reasonable prices
Free Entrace!
Ariane Loze, Christoph Ragg, Einat Tuchman, Elke Van Campenhout, Heike Langsdorf, Michel Yang,
Michiel Reynaert, Miriam Rohde, Nicolas Y Galeazzi, Raquel Santana de Morais, Sébastien Hendricks.
A shop window constitutes a bridge between the outside and the inside, the street and the shop, potential buyers and producers, sellers. It alters the relationship between artist and public space. It reverses the logic of much of today's 'community art' or 'local art', as it is not the artist who is scanning a specific neighborhood for things to do or deal with - rather it is the local community that can check the field of activity of a group of artists.
The shop window counters the logic of the private art studio or atelier. The artists and their practices are exposed to much more than just the gaze of a spectator. The shop door is always open and entry is free.