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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ecocheques - we prefer not to!
As a reaction on the reminder by podiumkunsten (social fond for stage-art), motivating artists to spend their ecocheques by the end of November 2015, we are joining the transformation process "pass eco pass", initiated by Various Artists.
www.various-artists.be/pass-eco-pass
Gallery
Collective Collaging Session, PASS-ECO-PASS:
Bains Connective on Saturday 5th of December, from 15h - 18h!
15h: arrival, coffee and introduction of the matter
15:30 - 17:30: eco pass processing
17:30: drinks at Brasserie des Alliés
Don't forget your eco-pass in case you (still) got some!
Various artists is transforming "Eco Pass" into an artistic piece by Christl, and Martn Coppens. The piece has the same dimensions as the cheque, and consists of a collage cutting up four, and a half "Eco Pass".
"Since 2012, artists working under a temporary contract in the performance arts (PC304) are entitled to receive "Eco Pass". This economic advantage - no taxes are payed for the cheques - serves to increase purchasing power of employed artists.
We disagree with this measure of superficial economical aid for artists, when overall budgets for culture keep shrinking, and their legal situation remain uncertain.
"Eco Pass" in this context are only palliatively drawing away the attention from a precarious reality of contemporary artists in our society."
[Various Artists 2013]
You too can become the owner of a "Pass Eco Pass" by Christl, and Martn Coppens by sending four, and a half Eco Pass to: Various Artists p/a Nadine rue du Berger 30, 1050 Brussels.