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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SITTING WITH THE BODY for Bureau d'Espoir

25-07-2013 [• sitting with the body • exemplary practices • making images ]
In the context of Battery - a production by Bureau d'Espoir  - two performers (Elke Van Campenhout and Veridiana Zurita) will spend three weeks (11 December 2013 - 3 January 2014) inside a 1.40m x 1.40m box. They define the poor but still supportable conditions, under which they want to live. We want to develop a sort of fitness-programme that helps them to keep themselves ‘in shape’ during their period in the box during which they automatically move much less than usual.

This fitness-programme will be based on the sitting with the body research practice which stems from the various retreats held until now.

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PDF 1 - Battery Notes 1