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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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 ...

CO-CONSTRUCTED CONVERSATIONS

COCOCO 2 -- Nicolas Y Galeazzi - Sint Jans Molenbeek / Brussels / 12-03-2013 [• shop shop • economy ]
THE CURRENCY OF ART
Nicolas Y Galeazzi uses performance as an act of research. His work focuses on developing and questioning social, economic, and political discourses through artistic research which are articulated in diverse concepts, installations, performances and...
COCOCO 1 -- Renée Copraij - Overtoom / Amsterdam / 23-03-2013 [• sitting with the body • making images ]
SACRED SPACE
Renée Copraij worked with Jan Fabre for 20 years on several of his dance-, theatre-, and opera-productions as a performer and later as a dramaturg. For many years she has been connected to the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) in...
COCOCO 7 -- Athanase Vettas - Woluwe-Saint-Lambert / Brussels / 04-12-2013 [• sitting with the body • shop shop • economy ]
CRAFTMANSHIP
Athanase Vettas ... (bio comes in a bit)Heike: Currently I am a student of yours, interested in understanding the Alexander technique you are teaching. Like yoga, body mind centering, Feldenkrais, Katsugen, martial arts, etcetera, the Alexander...
COCOCO 4 -- Karlheinz Langsdorf - Ixelles / Brussels / 28-04-2013 [• innovation ]
EXPERIMENTING
Karlheinz Langsdorf is a mechanical engineer. After his studies he worked for two years in an engineering office in Muenchen. Then he ran his own office for another two years. At age 27 he was employed at Wacker Chemie. For this company he worked in...
COCOCOs -- coconstructed conversations 2013 - 2015 / 03-06-2016
find here all conversations < < <aboutvvv COCOCO'sThe series of conversations, published on this blog, is a means for coming to more precise terms on how various practices, by different people, relate. *The conversations are co-constructed....
COCOCO 3 -- Elke Van Campenhout - Sint Joost / Brussels / 23-06-2013 [• sitting with the body • exemplary practices ]
SPIRIT
Elke Van Campenhout is an artistic researcher. She worked as a critic and dramaturg for several years. In 2007 she started the post-master program for artistic research a.pass (advanced performance and scenography studies), currently based in...
COCOCO 6 -- Anna Rispoli - 1000 / Brussels / 10-09-2013 [• bureau annex ]
SEDUCTION CORRUPTION CONTINUATION
Anna Rispoli is an Italian artist, currently based in Brussels. The relationship between humans and urbanity being a central narrative in her work, she tests citizens’ possible appropriations of the public space via participatory practices,...
COCOCO 5 -- Guy Gypens - Kaaitheater / Brussels / 20-12-2013 [• sitting with the body • bureau annex • shop shop • exemplary practices • transition ]
ALTERNATIVE / COLLECTIVE
Guy Gypens is the Artistic Director of the Brussels Kaaitheater, which was established in 1977. In addition, Gypens was involved in the founding of P.A.R.T.S., the dance school of choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker.Heike: Your...