(since 2020)

radical_house is a long term project that stems from radical_hope's practices: it presents a physical place, a framework and a logic.

Initiated in 2020 by Heike Langsdorf (as a possibility for her to reformulate the correlations between her pedagogical and artistic practices), radical_house is currently co-curated together with Simone Basani and Alice Ciresola.

What if one frees 'the house' of its usual connotations presenting "neither a property nor territory to be separated and defended against who does not belong there"? * It then could be considered "a void, a debt, a gift to the other that also reminds us of our constitutive alterity with respect to ourselves". ** ^{(*/**) Roberto Esposito, Communitas - the origin and destiny of community, 1998}

The transformation (2016-19) of a Brussels family house, with architect Tania Gijsenberg, into a place for 'more than family' is a new reality, with three work paths that are temporally and spatially entangeled:

Luikenaarsstraat 2 is the address of the house -- its  physical appearance -- where people can live, work and present together. 'Just another house' (in 'just another neigborhood'). After its transformation this house now can host more than their two permanent inhabitants: by opening and reducing the staircase to half its former width, a dark cellar (previously packed with unused stuff) became an atelier and the groundfloor became a studio with guestroom. A big window gives view to the streets, vice versa big parts of the working spaces can be seen from outside. The second floor is now an open co-working space with kitchen. Dismantling some little unused inbetween chambers on the same floor made two outside spaces possible: a little courtyard and a terrasse. Under the roof are two rooms for the permanent inhabitants to withdraw into. >>> some impressions <<<

partners / supporters / collaborators / in dialogue with:

Miriam Rohde, Simone Basani, Hans Bryssinck, SPIN (CO-DISCO), Merel Vercoutere & Stine Sampers/KAAP, nadine, Elke Van Campenhout, The Monastery, ZSenne art lab, Agnes Quackels/Kaaitheater, Ann Van De Vyvere/Demos, Alice Ciresola, Ronny Heiremans & Katleen Vermeir/Jubilée, Lilia Mestré/apass, Fransien van der Putt, David Weber Krebs, SQUEEZE (Anne-Beth Schuurmans, Marie-Rose Mayele), Mathilde Villeneuve & Bram Coeman/BUDA, Danielle van Zuijlen/Kunsthal Ghent, Guy Gypens/Kanaal, Botschaft (Julien de Smet, Clémentine Vaultier, Vanessa Müller).

previous users / temporary residents: a:pass & guests (2022/block III), Bilal Kamilla Arnout, Alex Arteaga, Maïte Àlvarez, Simone Basani, José Jesus, Julien Bruneau, Isabel Burr Raty, Caveat / Jubilee, Co-Disco, Hans Bryssinck, Lisa Coppi, Wouter De Raeve & Paula Almiron, Lore D Selys, Laura Deschepper, Klaas Devos, Helena Dietrich, Mlondi Dubazane, Carina Erdmann, Roger Fähndrich, Nada Gambier, Ritam Hazarika, C.G. Huber, Conrad Bongard Hamilton, Catalina Insignares, Joanneke Jouwsma, Céline Laloire, Heike Langsdorf, Irina Lavrinovic, Irene Lehmann, Asher Lev, Anouk Llaurens, Adil Mabchour, Ernst Maréchal, Carolina Mendonça, N.C., radical_hope, Miriam Rohde, Merel Severs, Stijn Smeets, Spa for Spirits (Leonie Buysse & Ellen Lili Vanderstraeten), SPIN, The Futurology of Cooperation (Anna Czapski & Diederik Peeters a.o.), NOON project (October 2020 with Judith Dhont, Senne Vanderschelden, Delphine Mertens, Heikel Mlouka, Janka De Waele, Jietske Vermoortele, Lena Mariën, Iris Donders and Tuur Geldhof), PAWS (Iris Donders, Marius Lefever, Senne Vanderschelden, Judith Dhondt), Laura Oriol, Out of Order Contemplations, Berno Odo Polzer & son, Anna Potieshkina, Anne-Beth Schuurmans, Trois Points Collectief, Julien Vaissier, Fransien van der Putt, Nikolas Van Laere, Iris van Peppen, Bastian Eduardo Oviedo Vivanco, Elke Van Campenhout, Clémentine Vaultier, Barbara Van Lindt, ...

permanent residents: Heike Langsdorf & Frankie Nina Langsdorf

2020Anouk Llaurens / Tremor I (12-23/12)