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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Summer Breaks with SPIN
People come together around a work of art in various forms, be it in a theater, a museum, a cultural center, or in public space. Artists most often come together in artistic creation. But they also meet in order to exchange, to organize themselves, to discuss, to think and to evaluate work together, or to act as a community.
We want to examine the circumstances in which artists unite, the conditions that are needed for this coming together and the various practices and organizations that spring from this.
Can artists develop collective practices that go beyond the pure artistic creation? Can organizational concerns be approached in an artistic way? What kind of organizational skills are needed in order to produce certain actions? What kind of action requires what kind of coming together?
During the Workspace Brussels Summer Residency SPIN together with Heike Langsdorf contemplated on these concerns artistically, philosophically and practically. They invited a serious of guests from a wide range of experience, working with different models that create potential answers to the questions raised. They have set-up several work sessions in which the residents could engage through the different models that were proposed.
Breaks by: L'AMICALE DE PRODUCTION, David Weber-Krebs, State Of The Arts, VTI, Elke Van Campenhout, Etablissement d'en face