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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Unfixing the Atlas -- reading rooms 2026
Saturday, March 28 at 17:00 at Bodeek, rue Birmingham 30, 1080 Molenbeek.
Reading Room of Unfixing the Atlas welcomes visitors to attend and receive readings of traces, and, if they wish, to try offering readings of traces themselves.
Which traces present themselves to us, and which do we actively turn toward? And what do our senses do when we read them for one another?
You may bring, if you wish, something you consider a trace. A trace you would like us to read for you, or that you would like to read for us. This could be a trace you were born with or one you produced yourself, a visible, fleeting, or hidden trace you find or remember in our (immediate) environment. It could be a needle on the ground, a bird on the roof, a song or a word in your ear, overwhelming or barely noticeable mass media material, or even another person next to you.
Reading Room practice group (2025/26): Narguess Azimi, Simone Basani, Charif Bendriss, Diana Campos Zenil, Anthony Chang, Lucy Guarinoni, Mathieu Hendrickx, Heike Langsdorf, Anna Laura Penna, Marie Louise Ruth, Does Vandousselaere
Unfixing the Atlas { Reading Rooms 2026 } is a co-creation by radical_hope currently developing with the support of a:pass and VierNulVier.
More info: http://www.open-frames.net/radical_hope