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 OTÇOE - 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.
OTÇOE - 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. OTÇOE.
SEASONAL REFLECTIONS
NEWSLETTERS
TIMELINE
MAIN PRACTICES
CO-CONSTRUCTED CONVERSATIONS
Through The House -- To The Lighthouse
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Through The House brings practitioners away from conversation and into a constructing dialogue, eventually leaving propositional language behind and starting to operate / move in space.
(Through The House is a further development of The Dance of the Day, a score for working in class, developed by Heike Langsdorf together with students / KASK performance 2017/18).
0 IF THE SCORE MAKES IT POSSIBLE
Through The House starts after having agreed that -- 'if the score makes it possible' -- eventually the group of practitioners will use the site, space they are at / in will be the place to play / articulate 'something' in practice.
This means the possibility to 'not make it their' is an integral part of this score.
1 NAMING WHAT'S AT STAKE
In the first round, for each pratitioner a couple of core elements (which are at stake) -- identifyable for themselves and the other practitioners -- are named.
2 CHOOSING
Those elements -- be they the main intentions, desires, struggles, wishes, or also very concrete subjet matters, activities, actions or concepts -- are then declared a collective pot of possible material to chose from.
In group a selection is made.
3 EDGES / FREEDOM
A next score is composed from what the group accepted as the 'parameters' to be played with.
After clarifictaion of what the 'edges' of the scripted score are, the group -- for the sake of safety -- should consciously check whether they want to agree on that going with, against, over, along those edges is ok / not ok.
4 GOING TO WEAVE -- THROUGH THE HOUSE
A duration -- how to deal with time / beginning and ending -- is agreed on (time might be set, felt, left open, negotiated throughout) and a witness is asked to be with the practitioners throughout the entire duration.