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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What Remains of a Rembrandt...

28-04-2021 [• curatorialS ]









What Remains of a Rembrandt Torn Into Four Equal Pieces and Flushed Down the Toilet

A museum is greater than the sum of its buildings, artworks, and visitors. 
 
Its grand narrative contains many layers to be decoded: the history of an institution, the silent past life of its rooms and corridors, hidden traces of former uses. The audience is physically present among all these elements and in dialogue with them. 
 
"What Remains of a Rembrandt Torn Into Four Equal Pieces and Flushed Down the Toilet" is a performative tool for narrating the museum space letting hidden stories and unexpected connections emerge. At the same time, it keeps track of a common event - the act of visiting - and makes the spectators conscious of their own presence and choices within the exhibition space. The visitors are ultimately portrayed as performers themselves, as authors of their own ritual choreography within the museum.

What Remains of a Rembrandt Torn Into Four Equal Pieces and Flushed Down the Toilet, 2017-2021
Performance for museum spaces
By Simone Basani 
With Matteo De Blasio, Heike Langsdorf, Sonia Si Ahmed, David Weber-Krebs
Curated by Alice Ciresola 

What Remains of a Rembrandt...
Groeningemuseum, Brugge
Gruuthusemuseum, Brugge
presented in the frame of "Mind the Artist" festival, organised by KAAP & Musea Brugge.
15 - 16 May 2021


visual: Photo taken during a museum visit to Zachęta – National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, Poland
ph: Simone Basani