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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radical_house / 19-12-2023 [• transition • in practice • Making Space/S • HoP • radical_house ]
radical_house(since 2020)>>> related entries <<<radical_house is a long-term project exploring notions of ownership, privilege, privacy and the question of how ‘just another house’ can become a relational tool. It shelters...
Disclosing Practices... / 22-02-2024 [• in practice ]
Disclosing Practices... is the continuation of Choreography as Conditioning, a collective process of "writing thorugh practices" that resulted in a book series with the same name edited by Alex Arteaga and Heike Langsdorf, and, as framework, finds...
Choreography as Conditioning & Disclosing Practices / 28-03-2022 [• CASC at KASK • in practice • curatorialS ]
On a dark winter eve, at Wiels in Brussels, we celebrated the publication of the book series:Choreography as ConditioningPUBLISHED by APE <<<...and launched a new project:Disclosing Practices ... through books is an initiative meant to...
TREMOR Anouk Llaurens / 22-12-2022 [• in practice • radical_house ]
•• • 𝘛𝘙𝘌𝘔𝘖𝘙, 𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘯 • ••...
CODISCO / sonic document by Social Recordings / 15-09-2021 [• in practice • HoP • radical_house ]
CODISCO <<< invited Ernst Maréchal / Social Recordings & May Abnet to follow CODISCO -- one day in and around a house in Ixelles / Staycation through applying their practices in this specific context and timeframe...During that...
Summer Refuge / 29-08-2022 [• sitting with the body • workshops etc. • in practice • Making Space/S • curatorialS ]
𝕊𝕦𝕞𝕞𝕖𝕣 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖 / ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖 𝕕'é𝕥é / ℤ𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕣...
Unrequested Services / 13-04-2022 [• in practice • HoP • radical_house • curatorialS ]
ABOUT USUnrequested Services is a growing series of public services created by artists. They are not requested because nobody commissioned them - if not the artists themselves, following their own desires and needs. Unrequested Services is conceived...
Through The House -- To The Lighthouse / 18-03-2022 [• in practice • radical_house ]
In the context of To The Lighthouse (an initiative by dramaturge, mixer and art critic Fransien van der Putt), during three days four artists tested / worked with a score for weaving their practices together -- Through The House.With: Fransien van...
Poor Concerts / 19-03-2022 [• making images • Hands On / AllReadyDada • in practice ]
This year Ernst Maréchal and Heike Langsdorf are re(dis)covering a practice they have started up in 2018.Using in-situ poor dramaturgy every time and again, Poor Concerts make sure that something is done, recorded, played back... ready to...
Out of Order Contemplations / 15-11-2021 [• in practice • radical_house ]
Out of Order Contemplations 15-21 Nov 2021@radical_house"After a semester long process discussing and experimenting a new curriculum proposal for art schools, a group of (former) art students will spend an intense week bringing the gained knowledge...
El camino de Flandre POST-PONED / 18-09-2021 [• in practice • HoP ]
POST- PONEDEl camino de Flandre / Bilal Kamilla Arnout and guestsRue de Flandre, 1000 Bruxelles: 18 & 19 Septembers 2021Once upon a time, more than a hundred years, in Brussels there were no cars, but horses. People coming from Flanders would...
Resonating Knowledges / Irene Lehmann / 01-10-2021 [• in practice • radical_house ]
Resonating Knowledges1 - 10 October: radical_houseResidency: Irene LehmannWriting residency by Irene Lehmann, theatre and performance studies scholar, author and dramaturge, in the framework of a larger research project, titled „Resonating...
HoP in Massia & Intensive Days / 18-08-2021 [• in practice • radical_house ]
House of Practices in Massia/Ru -- ...staying for a while in a place far from Brussels (NOT at this bus stop but in and around the building and gardens just across the road), digesting, reflecting on and listening to what has happened / not happened...
CECI & Dialogue II / 03-05-2021 [• in practice • HoP • radical_house ]
DIALOGUE by CECI @ House of Practices *During the month of May CECI — Maaike Gottschal, Miriam Rohde and Sarah Ten Westenend — will work with and through Dialogue.>>> more on Dialogue & >>> more on...
Strange Beds (working title) / 10-04-2021 [• in practice • radical_house ]
Strange Beds (working title) / April 10 - 25Fransien Van Der Putt [NL] invites José Jesus [PT] for a residence at radical_house to collaborate and develop a practice of projecting images and words, to reflect and transport presences and...
CAVEAT READING ROOM #14: ORPHANS OF TAR / 26-03-2021 [• CASC at KASK • in practice ]
CAVEAT READING ROOM #14: ORPHANS OF TAR - A SPECULATIVE OPERA26 March 202116:00-18:00 Reading Room #14 takes place online. In order to attend, please send us an email: info@caveat.be Can operas speculate on urban development?For this Reading Room,...
The big leap / 31-01-2021 [• in practice • HoP • radical_house ]
The big leap — how to gather around death and dying? Dying gets experienced as the letting go of all qualifications, as losing all self-referential thoughts and feelings, and as letting go of all stories — all versions — of yourself...
WALK UP & BLOOM / 22-12-2020 [• in practice • radical_house ]
WALK UP & BLOOMBilal Kamilla Arnout's working/S in Brussels2021Lines on the wallCurrently, and resonating with the previous undertakings, the wall in the atelier, on which the Rats de BXL worked in the end of 2020, is developed further during a...
TO DO OR NOT TO DO -- Resistance & Care / 14-12-2020 [• in practice • radical_house ]
To do or not to do?Resistance & CareIn times of crisis, do we or do we not resist and care?Does an artist need to reinvent her/them/him-self? Have you become: the online streaming master? the bureaucratic secretary? the radical...
Beauty Kit Female Farm online workshop from da house / 13-12-2020 [• innovation • workshops etc. • in practice • radical_house ]
The Beauty Kit Female Farm – online workshopSunday 13 to Friday 18 December 2020 from 19:00 to 22:00 CET (UTC+1)Questions & Inscriptionsisabelburr.raty@sacrofilms.comIn times of Pandemic…, the Beauty Kit Female Farm invites you to take your...
Beauty Kit Female Farm / BKFF 0.4 at radical house / 11-11-2020 [• workshops etc. • transition • in practice • radical_house ]
POSTPONED to MARCH 2021Farming: MARCH 13-20, 2021Public Tour at radical_house: MARCH 20, 21, 22The BKFF 0.4 bio-autonomous female farming system offers a base to liberate formatted femininity instructed by the beauty industry. This correlates to...
OPEN CALL / 11-10-2020 [• workshops etc. • transition • in practice • radical_house ]
OPEN CALL for participants ...Isabel Burr Raty, nadine and radical_house invite you for BEAUTY KIT FEMALE FARM 0.4. From 12 to 18 November 2020, a group of females of different ages and backgrounds, will take part in the fourth -- corona-adapted --...
ANIMIERTES / 17-08-2020 [• in practice • Making Space/S ]
ANIMIERTES... this was a summer residency at Pathos / Schwere Reiter -- Munich ... full of surprise, surrendering and negotiation!!! Together with Christiane Huber and Robert Keil we entered a dedicated 'Grundladenforschung' (Yes we worked in...
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
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...
BAGS 2019 / 14-09-2019 [• making images • in practice • Discrete Guidance ]
------For NIGHT SHIFT closure of Het TheaterFestival -- invited by Gouvernment --SEP 14 -- 6 pm until 6 am -- Vooruit / GhentDuring twelve hours BAGS will offer a precair presence.At once brutallly dependent and radically detached from the attention...
We Are Always Already Practicing / 05-08-2019 [• in practice ]
-----Monday / August 5 — a try-out  at TAZ / sectordag - invited by recto-versoWhat’s a Vision ? — WE ARE ALWAYS ALREADY PRACTICING *... a score for visualisations in group, not the production of one singular vision. A series of mental...
Dance Of The Day / 17-05-2019 [• DAD - education • in practice ]
------Contribution to Seminar Educational Science  / Seminarie onderwijskunde at HoGentMay 17, 2019More >>> see...
Co-Learn Days 2018-19 / 25-11-2018 [• workshops etc. • in practice ]
••••2 HOW TO DEAL WITH REAL DILEMMA? Thursday 4 July 2019 from 11h till 16hTram stop Coccinelles on Tramline 8 (previously called 94) From Louise, direction RoodebeekHosted by Hans Bryssinck, Heike Langsdorf & Erika SpreySupported by SPINIn...
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...
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...
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...
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...
OTCOE local press / 02-09-2015 [• in practice ]
1 - Works for passers-by >>> Sébastien Hendrickx (2014) OffRoad!
 / VGC Brussel2 - Corps urbain, Espace humain >>> Miriam Rhode / CIFAS (2014) Klaxon no.1
 / PDF page 130-140 <<<3 - Les atistes...
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...