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.
For the second time, Cifas (suite...) dedicates its summer university to the relationship between Living Art and the City.
Here you find the audio-recordings of the various debates >>>
3/9
10.00 - 13.00: Society City
Scout: Eric Corijn (BE). With Kris Grey (US), Sally De Kunst (BE/CH), Rajni Shah (UK), Heike Langsdorf (BE).
Social classes, origins, gender, culture, income, customs, languages create divisions which meet, collide and sometimes mingle in urban areas, let alone in contemporary European urban space marked by globalization. If this space is that of individual freedom allowed by anonymity, it is also the space where social ties disintegrate. Living Art, better than Monumental Art, often tries to restore this tie, or at least highlights this complex social fabric. What are its means, how successful is it and what are the difficulties met?