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 OTΗOE - 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.
OTΗOE - 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. OTΗOE.
SEASONAL REFLECTIONS
NEWSLETTERS
TIMELINE
MAIN PRACTICES
CO-CONSTRUCTED CONVERSATIONS
SITTING WITH THE BODY one-on-one Retreats
with: Helena Dietrich, Gilles Polet, Isabelle Wahedova, Christoph Ragg, Katja Dreyer, Jo Massin, Nelle Hens, Lilia Mestre, Elke Van Campenhout, Dolores Hulan, Dieudonné Zoko ...
Having in mind to produce SWTB 24/7, a polyphonic choreography next year, the research takes a clear direction: practicing - in the sense of dedicating oneself to something completely - will be the heart of the polyphonic piece. The final work to see for others (the public) will evolve around personal practice-lines. It wouldn't make sense to fix some sort of material and rehearse/repeat it from now on.
What makes sense is that we - individually AND as a group - as a loose group - integrate the practicing into our daily/weekly life-routines.
Until next February there will be 'one-on-one' retreats of one full day, during which Heike Langsdorf works with one co-sitter at a time. Materials (movement, actions, to-do-things) for an individual praxis-line will be selected ...
The basis for these personal practice-lines, are the principles which she could research for herself under der guidance of Renée Copraij during the last year.
The week of the 10th of February 2014, there will be an open atelier for all co-sitters at ZSenne artlab, concluding the research phase and at the same time previewing what will be elaborated into a piece for the fall 2014.