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.
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Carolina Mendonça, based in Brussels, works with dance, theatre, and visual arts, allowing for a cross-pollination of knowledge and an openness towards different logics. She graduated in Performing Arts at ECA-USP in São Paulo and attained a Master in Choreography and Performance at Giessen University in Germany with a DAAD Scholarship. Carolina has collaborated with artists such as Catalina Insignares, Dudu Quintanilha, Volmir Cordeiro and Marcelo Evelin and has presented work at festivals such as Kyoto Experiment, Festival d`Automnne, Tanz in August, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, and Impulztanz, among others.
Catalina Insignares is a dancer and choreographer. Born in Bogota, now living and working in Paris, she studied dance in Canada and France as well as Choreography and Performance at Giessen University in Germany. As a choreographer, she’s looking for that moment when dance, touch and movement generate unintelligible, unapologetic subjectivities and collectivities. Her work is mainly created through collaborations (Else Tunemyr, Miriam Schulte, Larisa Crunteanu, Zuzana Zabkova, Carolina Mendonça) in the areas of staging, dramaturgy, teaching and performing. Since 2017 she has worked with choreographer Myriam Lefkowitz as a performer as well as in a collaboration that finds ways to infiltrate sensorial practices derived from their works in diverse social contexts. She is presently engaged in the third cycle of the research programme THIRD at DAS School in Amsterdam.