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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MAIN PRACTICES

bodily
SITTING WITH THE BODY 2013 ...
social
BUREAU ANNEX
economical
SHOP SHOP
educational
DISTRACTION AS DISCIPLINE 2016-19
relational
radical_house 2020 ...

CO-CONSTRUCTED CONVERSATIONS

Sitting With The Body - try-out

05-12-2015 [• sitting with the body • workshops etc. • Making Space/S ]
TRY-OUT 5 - 7 Dec 2014 / Ensorgallery Ostend

Retreat in public space TRY-OUT
During two days we retreate into the James Ensorgallery in the centre of Ostend. We practice everyday activities following the time-structure we developped during the recent months: sitting, lying down, walking, standing, making, seeing, dancing and speaking. The fixed timetable and the focus on one action at a time create the conditions for bodily introspection. Everybody is invited to observe the actions or enter the space and join the practice.

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>>> The work is shown in full length (7 days) in Brussels in February 2015 during the Burning Ice Festival 8#, programmed by Kaaitheatre.