(since 2020)

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}

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

>>> Since its renovation the house at Luikenaarsstraat 2, 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:

previous users / temporary residents: a:pass & guests (2022/block III), Bilal Kamilla Arnout, Alex Arteaga, Ali AlGhaffari, 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, Emilie Gallier, Nada Gambier, Ritam Hazarika, C.G. Huber, Conrad Bongard Hamilton, Catalina Insignares, Joanneke Jouwsma, Céline Laloire, Carlos Landaeta, Pauline Lavogez, Irina Lavrinovic, Irene Lehmann, Asher Lev, Anouk Llaurens, Adil Mabchour, Ernst Maréchal, Mira Matthew, Carolina Mendonça, N.C., 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), 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.), Vanda Tollas, PAWS (Iris Donders, Marius Lefever, Senne Vanderschelden, Judith Dhondt), Laura Oriol, Out of Order Contemplations, Berno Odo Polzer & son, Anna Potieshkina, Hamed Rad Simorgh, Anne-Beth Schuurmans, Trois Points Collectief, Bleu Ustad, Julien Vaissier, Fransien van der Putt, Nikolas Van Laere, Iris van Peppen, Bastian Eduardo Oviedo Vivanco, Elke Van Campenhout, Clémentine Vaultier, Barbara Van Lindt, Ibrahim Wael, ...

permanent residents: Heike Langsdorf & Frankie Nina Langsdorf

cleaning together with: Adil Mabchour (2020/21), Frankie Langsdorf (2022 onwards)
AGENDA -- residencies & events

PAWS (10/8-17/8)

NOON project (5/10-23/10)

To Do or Not To Do, brunches & open fires (19, 20, 21/12)

N.C. (20/7 - 27/7 2020)

AISA Mentor Talks (Mar to Oct)

Carolina Mendonça (4-10/07)

Joanneke Jouwsma & Ritam Hazarika (22-29/08)

a.pass mentoring block 2022 / 3 (1/09-30/11)