ABOUT THIS SITE >>> This site is a blog as well as an archive. It gives visibility to the continues working of radical_hope, its current move to radical_house, the research project Distraction As Discipline (2016 - 2019) and the process of OTÇOE - works for passers-by, a working trajectory (2013 and 2014).
radical_house is a long term project and has a threefold nature: it presents a physical place, a framework and a logic. When in 2013 teaching and mentoring became an extension of Langsdorf's artistic practices now radical_house stems from her pedagogical experience where 'being in dialogue' with others is her main principle.
Distraction As Discipline 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 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
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.