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 OTΗOE - 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.

OTΗOE - 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. OTΗOE.

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SEASONAL REFLECTIONS

NEWSLETTERS

TIMELINE

MAIN PRACTICES

bodily
SITTING WITH THE BODY 2013 ...
social
BUREAU ANNEX
economical
SHOP SHOP
educational
DISTRACTION AS DISCIPLINE 2016-19
relational
radical_house 2020 ...

CONVERSATIONS

The Orphans of Tar -- A Speculative Opera (Choreography as Coditioning 3) / 23-10-2020 [• workshops etc. • DAD - education • CASC at KASK ]
The Orphans of Tar -- A Speculative Opera (Choreography as Coditioning 3)The POST-PONED will now happen on October 23rd!!!Aha!!! book-present-ing at Kunsthal / Ghent: while the last two books are in the making the third is yearning to be read a...
MOUNT TACKLE (Revisited) - filmic document / 29-01-2020 [• DAD - education • mount tackle • in practice • Discrete Guidance • Making Space/S ]






A filmic document of MOUNT TACKLE (Revisited) by Mathieu Hendrickx
CASC at KASK / 18-01-2020 [• DAD - education • CASC at KASK ]
---[CASC] was organised in the context of Distraction as Discipline (DAD) - an investigation into the function of attention and participation in performance art and pedagogy (Langsdorf & Luyten 2016-2019). [CASC] guests / encounters with:...
TWO FRAMEWORKS - ... THROUGH PRACTICES & MOUNT TACKLE (Revisited) / 28-10-2019 [• DAD - education • mount tackle • CASC at KASK • in practice • Discrete Guidance • Making Space/S ]
°°°°°… THROUGH PRACTICES & MOUNT TACKLE (Revisited)>>> Folder with complete info and directions here <<<>>> Article on ... Through Practices / Yente Blancke & Camille Goris here <<<(Dutch)>>> A...
An Interview / Distraction as Discipline / 03-10-2019 [• DAD - education • mount tackle • in practice ]
----->>> An Interview voor Onrust by Elowise Vandenbroucke(Dutch)Heike Langsdorf (kunstenares en docente) en Elowise Vandenbroecke (dramaturge en producente) werken samen aan en met het framework radical_hope. Ter gelegenheid van de...
Practicing Futures through Voicing / 18-09-2019 [• DAD - education • CASC at KASK • in practice ]
>>> Published by APE <<<The books included in the series Choreography as Conditioning are rooted in a cycle of work sessions entitled CASC at KASK, in which students work together with invited guests. They explore...
Dance Of The Day / 17-05-2019 [• DAD - education • in practice ]
------Contribution to Seminar Educational Science  / Seminarie onderwijskunde at HoGentMay 17, 2019More >>> see...
House Of Ear / 06-04-2019 [• DAD - education • CASC at KASK • Discrete Guidance ]
-------HOUSE OF EAR >>> moreSaturday, 6 April: 15:00 - 21:00De Bijloke - Muziekcentrum / Artiestenfoyer Godshuizenlaan 2, 9000 Ghentdirections ***The third CASC at KASK worksession -- (collaborating with the Conservatory) -- was and still...
Two documents on Un/Settled Residency / 11-01-2019 [• DAD - education • Un/Settled Residency • Discrete Guidance ]
-----to document or not?... in this case editing impressions is a means of bringing together what as group we could not see while causing it.Here they are -- two documents:> > > The body makes a landscape - a filmic article by Elowise...
Thinking through Practices - performative bookpresentation / 27-10-2018 [• DAD - education • CASC at KASK • in practice ]
••••Sat 27 Oct, 4pm, WIELS / Brussels <<<A presentation through practices of two books written through practices, as a framework to reflect collectively on the role of publishing in the context of artistic research. Although very different...
Un/Settling Library (TESTING) / 10-11-2018 [• making images • DAD - education • Un/Settled Residency • Discrete Guidance • Making Space/S ]
-------10 & 11 NOV / 11am - 5pmRaversyde Domein / Atlantic Wall(a couple of stops by coast tram from Ostend station)by Heike Langsdorf & Ernst Maréchalin dramaturgical - productional dialogue with Elowise Vandenbroeuckecontext:...
un/settled RESIDENCY / 28-07-2018 [• exemplary practices • DAD - education • Un/Settled Residency • Discrete Guidance • Making Space/S ]
>>>  download the un/settling brochure (all in one: Dutch / English / French / Arabic) <<<un/settled RESIDENCY 28/07/18 — 04/08/18 07:00 — 00:00 Langestraat 121, Oostende (corner / hoek / croisement /...
Thinking Conditioning through Practice / Choreography as Conditioning / 07-06-2018 [• DAD - education • CASC at KASK • in practice ]
>>> Published by APE <<<The books included in the series Choreography as Conditioning are rooted in a cycle of work sessions entitled CASC at KASK, in which students work together with invited guests. They explore the notions...
Getijdig - an unfinished score / 02-06-2018 [• DAD - education • Discrete Guidance ]
2 jun, 1pm - 5pmZwarte Zaal, Bijloke CampusLouis Pasteurlaan 2, 9000 GhentA landscape happening ... in- and out-doors.‘Getijdig’ is an unfinished score for making and dealing with a landscape where things, animals and people roam their...
Hands On / 26-05-2018 [• DAD - education • Un/Settled Residency • Hands On / AllReadyDada ]
At Antenna / Ostend: 26 May, 2pm - 5pmTorhoutsesteenweg 291Hands On(open concerts / age 0-99)Full cycles start at 2pm, 3pm and 4pm but you can enter at any moment.Feel free to watch, listen or take part for a shorter or longer while."We come and...
HOW DO WE DO IT? - We did it. / 24-02-2018 [• DAD - education • Making Space/S ]
... bit by bit we will gather traces, documents and extensions here ...Excerpt from the opening lecture HOW DO WE DO IT? by Alex Arteaga 20/2/2018, KASK school of arts, Ghent.“I think that the term “aesthetic research” is more adequate than...
HOW DO WE DO IT? - We do it. / 09-02-2018 [• DAD - education • Making Space/S ]
I am happy to announce the first take on HOW DO WE DO IT? This first gathering could be realized by a core group of artists working at KASK and in the frame of the research-traject Distraction as Discipline, I am currently conducting at...
HOW DO WE DO IT? / 17-11-2017 [• DAD - education • Making Space/S ]
HOW DO WE DO IT?A platform for arts and design research practicesKASK – 20-23 February 2018>>> we did it! / pictures>>> we do it! / programme>>> call for participationHOW DO WE DO IT? A platform for arts and design...
Our OPEN Ended / 17-11-2017 [• workshops etc. • DAD - education • CASC at KASK ]
°°°°°°Our OPEN Ended with mythical soups & bread at TramZwart.After four weeks delving between life and loss, death and rebirth, rite and arts, between studio, theatre and cemetary we will bring together some elements of our work - or rather of...
OPEN END / 28-09-2017 [• workshops etc. • DAD - education ]
A beautiful way to meet both Barbara Raes as researcher, her project OPEN END and her workplace Beyond The Spoken.Together with students (Autonomous Design / KASK school of arts) we'll experience something less a workshop and rather a treatment...
Dance Of The Day / 26-09-2017 [• DAD - education ]
Developping during the in expo classes at Skopiumschuivers (Sep/Oct 2017), following the invoitation of Edwin Carels and Paya Germonprez and during the OPEN END project with Barbara Raes at Autonome Vormgeving in Oct/Nov 2017.When a body warm-up...
AllReadyDada - ONE / 29-07-2017 [• DAD - education • Hands On / AllReadyDada ]
AllReadyDada's are very little concerts and dances *29 July - 2m3 - TAZ 17 - Klein Verhaal / Ostend* enjoying a low profile, cool and most generous sphere!* and after, the most splendid bar keeping ever ...MORE...
vormfrakken RE-done RE-danced RE-written for Skopium Schuivers / 12-10-2017 [• making images • DAD - education • Discrete Guidance • Making Space/S ]
••••••Following an invitation by Edwin Carels and Paya Germonprez we will soon RE-RE-RE-vormvrak ... Looking forward to re-arrange the improvisational structure we found for vormfrakken activated at Performatiek and dive into another relational...
AllReadyDaDa'S / 18-07-2017 [• DAD - education • Hands On / AllReadyDada ]
>>> 29 July 17, 21h @ Klein Verhaal Ostend / 2m3 for TAZAllReadyDaDa's are very little concerts.Played is everything found and collected during the day.Whatever comes together will make sense as much as it can ...Performance is low but...
OPENING - Conversation Room at TramZwart / 11-06-2017 [• DAD - education • conversation room ]
... from now on, please occupy whenever you want in whatever way *** The Conversation Room Aloud, in silence, with silence, alone, in company, through words or gestures, senses or thoughts, through dreams, with dreams, with things, with...
Conversation Room / 05-06-2016 [• DAD - education • conversation room ]
>>> opening soon at Autonome Vormgeving / KASK School of Arts / TramZwart (Paulibuilding)The room at the end of the corridor at TramZwart was declared the research room of the 40 months research Distraction as Discipline *. What kind of...
Vormvrakken - Performatik 17 / 24-03-2017 [• DAD - education • Discrete Guidance • Making Space/S ]
^^^^^PERFORMATIK 17 *** A beautiful opportunity to work with Kristof van Gestel's Vormvrakken, the lovely 1st bachelors AUV (KASK) and the amazing Manoeuvre >>> gang!How collectively make space for eachother's presence?Kristof Van Gestel...
Mount Tackle (trailer) / 21-06-2017 [• DAD - education • mount tackle • Discrete Guidance • Making Space/S ]
for video scroll down a little: cam & edit by Mathieu Hendricks [pour lire en F / NL / A scroll a bit down]MOUNT TACKLEE  - Lots of stuffMount Tackle is a movement in three parts for young and old.There is no ideal perspective, maybe...
things written on (Mount Tackle) / 20-12-2016 [• DAD - education • mount tackle • Discrete Guidance • Making Space/S ]
pics by Tiziana Penna, Johan Pijpops, Eloοse Roulette, Anyuta Wiazemsky - montage: Johan Pijpops[english] • Kristof van Baarle (2017) - a newly discovered world <<<• Jeroen Peeters (2016) - in search of material literacy...
Mount Tackle - Illustraties / 18-11-2017 [• DAD - education • mount tackle • Discrete Guidance • Making Space/S ]
Development of illustrations by Raquel Santana De Morais MOUNT TACKLEE  - Lots of stuffMount Tackle is a movement in three parts for young and old.There is no ideal perspective, maybe scan around, discover, just hang out ... Mount Tackle...
Mount Tackle - agenda / 03-12-2016 [• DAD - education • mount tackle • Discrete Guidance • Making Space/S ]
>>> written on Mount Tackle <<<After a productional 'on ice' Mount Tackle will be reformulated for the fall 2019 in conversation with Lilia Mestre, David Helbich and Elowise Vandenbroecke and in collaboration with an altered group...
Picture Fload Mount TAckle / 12-03-2017 [• DAD - education • mount tackle ]

PICTURES Mount Tackle @ Burning Ice #10 (Kaaitheater / Brussels) & @ Budavista #10 (BUDA - Kortrijk)
Collage As Filter / 20-09-2016 [• DAD - education • in practice ]
°°°°°°°Collage as filter [literature-reference: The Tree of Knowledge - F. Varela, Technologies of the Self - M. Foucault] Motivation In the frame of my...
Discrete Guidance / 05-06-2016 [• DAD - education • Discrete Guidance ]
Is one of three (interwoven) proposals by Langsdorf in the frame of Distraction as Discipline >>> in dialogue with Alex Arteaga >>> Performative strategies represent the ways in which - facing an audience - one structures time and...
Workers' Club - open to the broad public / 15-02-2017 [• shop shop • economy • workshops etc. • transition • DAD - education • Making Space/S ]
TOURNext* InCompany Workers' at Manual for Work and Happiness Seminar[15 July - Pergine / Italy]PreviousInCompany in da Cave - 2 Chapters / Halles Saint Géry in centre of the cemtre of Brussels: Feb - June 201723 / 2,  18:30 – 21:30 >...
Launching DAD / 27-05-2016 [• DAD - education ]
26/5 2016 @ KASK School of Arts / TramZwart[research project || KASK School of Arts / Ghent 2016 - 2019researchers || Heike Langsdorf & Anna Luytenin dialogue with || Alex Arteagaproject coordination || Kristof Van Gestel] [Anna and me met at...
Building Practices / 19-12-2015 [• sitting with the body • workshops etc. • DAD - education • in practice • Discrete Guidance ]
Building Practices are regular and continuous classes or sessions. Next to sharing or getting introduced to different existing practices, - (bodily: meditative practices, movement based practices, shiatsu, katsugen, boundage, shadow boxing etc. and...
InCompany Workers' Club / 29-10-2015 [• shop shop • economy • workshops etc. • transition • DAD - education • Making Space/S ]
CLUB DATESNext:• 29/02/16 Brussels - 18:00 - Beursschouwburg, Rue A. Ortsstraat 20-28, BXLPrevious:• 03/12/15 Kortrijk - 18:00 - Taktoren, Kortrijk-Kapucijnenstraat, Kortrijk• 26/11/15 Brussels - 18:00 - Beursschouwburg, Rue A. Ortsstraat 20-28,...
Conversation Room 0.1 / 21-11-2018 [• DAD - education • conversation room • in practice • Discrete Guidance • Making Space/S ]
-----The room at the end of the corridor at TramZwart was declared the research room of the 40 months research Distraction as Discipline *. What kind of room allows for being open irregularily, on appointment or once in a while with an announced...