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.
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SITTING WITH THE BODY videomontage
During the last year the SWTB research was conducted through a series of short residencies of one or two weeks at ZSenne arftlabin Brussels.
In the beginning Heike Langsdorf and Renée Copraij introduced the research by presenting a first image their two sitting bodies three times a day.
Soon Langsdorf started working with other interested Brussels residents on this and other images.
In February 2014 an open studio was organised
as a kind of preview of the 168 hour choreography,
sitting with the body 24/7, which will stem from the research.
thanks for guidance, advice, participation and moral support:
Renée Copraij, Lilia Mestre, Sébastien Hendrickx, Helena Dietrich, Christoph Ragg,
Katja Dreyer, Isabelle Wahedova, Jo Massin, Elke van Campenhout, Nelle Hens, Gilles Polet,
Dolores Hulan, Dieudonné Zoko, Ariane Loze, Gabriel Callealta, Fleur Khani, Els Degreef, Isabel Hoornaert, Luc Emiel Rooman & ZSenne artlab, Pascal Vandelanoitte, Guy Gypens, Jan Mayer, Miriam Rohde, Griet Verstraelen, Margarita Production / Mokum vzw
with the financial support of:
Flemish Community (development grant) and the Commision of the Flemish Community Brussels (part of artist trajectory grant)
camera and montage:
Charlotte Bouckaert
[>>> more on SITTING WITH THE BODY - the research]