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 OTÇOE - 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.
OTÇOE - 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. OTÇOE.
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radical_house
(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.
° How can 'just another' house become a relational tool?
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. Here just a short overview:
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 <<<
Bridging from School
In
2021/22 radical_house develops the framework Bridging from School:
first and foremost a way of working with young people, who are still
studying or have just graduated, to make their practices not yet
introduced to the field: this is done not only by following their work,
mentoring or coaching them, giving them feedback but very concretely, by
setting up projects which need the presence and knowledge anquored in
their practices. Like this they are actually introducing themselves
while practicing, not by presenting their ideas and philosphies via
dossiers and portfolios. Currently, through a collaboration with AISA (arts in society award) radical_house is mentoring their candidates.
House of Practices is
exploring permeability through a series of re-curring questions: * How to make space in existing places -- through a dialogue of practices?
* What makes our practices relational and permeable and
for whom? * How do our practices create closeness and distance to one
another? * What of it contributes to the making of community, and what to
avoiding or even destroying it?
>>> In 2020/21 House of Practices received a
research grant by the Flemish Authorities. This allowed four practitioners -- Simone Basani,
Hans Bryssinck, Heike Langsdorf and Miriam Rohde to investigate the transformative power of a physical place: What does a
place with its specific history, former and current
inhabitants/users allow for?
>>> In 2022 Basani, Langsdorf
and Rohde continued the quest.
>>> Currently, invited by the post-master
programme a.pass (2022 / block III) / Brussels Simone Basani & Heike Langsdorf they work with a mentoring system made to measure called "Our Practices -- Our Extensions".
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, Simone Basani, José Jesus, Julien
Bruneau, Isabel Burr Raty, Caveat / Jubilee, Co-Disco, Hans Bryssinck,
Lisa Coppi, Wouter De Raeve & Paula
Almiron, Laura Deschepper, Klaas Devos, Helena Dietrich, Roger
Fähndrich, C.G. Huber, Conrad
Bongard Hamilton, 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, SPIN, The Futurology
of Cooperation (Anna Czapski & Diederik Peeters a.o.), NOON project
(October 2020 with Judith Dhont, Senne Vanderschelden, Delphine
Mertens, Janka
De Waele, Jietske Vermoortele, Lena Mariën, Iris Donders and Tuur
Geldhof), PAWS
(Iris Donders, Marius Lefever, Senne Vanderschelden, Judith
Dhondt), Laura Oriol, Berno Odo Polzer & son, Out of Order
Contemplations, 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,...
permanent residents: Heike Langsdorf & Frankie Nina Langsdorf
cleaning together with: Adil Mabchour (2020/21), Frankie Langsdorf (2022)
AGENDA
2020
PAWS (10/8-17/8)
NOON project (5/10-23/10)
BKFF online workshop 1 (DEC 13-20)
To Do or Not To Do, brunches & open fires (19, 20, 21/12)N.C. (20/7 - 27/7 2020)
Bilal Kamilla Arnout (4/8 - 9/8)
CO-Disco days (monthly Oct-Dec)
2021
Céline Laloire (weekly Jan-Mar)
BKFF online workshop 2 (14-19/03)
Fransien van der Putt & José Jesus (8-18/04)
BKFF online workshop 2 (14-19/03)
Fransien van der Putt & José Jesus (8-18/04)
Irene Lehmann (1-10/10)
Out of Order Contemplations (Nov)
Launch of Choreography as Conditioning & Disclosing Practices ...through books / Reading Room (27/11)
Delphine Mertens & Lisa Coppi (Dec)
Jietske Vermoortele & Iris Donders (Dec)
The big leap / Heike Langsdorf & Stijn Smeets (Sping 21)
Ceci / M.Gottschal, M.Rohde, S.ten Westenend (May)
CO-Disco Days (3/4, 5/6, 10/7)
Caveat Reading Room #15 / Clémentine Vaultier (26/07)
Clémentine Vaultier & Students (La Chambre) (25/10)
Unrequested Services (Basani & Ciresola, Saadi (Oct-Feb)
2022
Maïte Àlvarez (31/01-4/02)
Trois Points Collective (14-23/02)
To The Lighthouse (1-6/02)
Irina Lavrinovic & Asher Lev (weekly Feb / March)
Alex Arteaga (May cancelled)
Noon Collective (6-10/06)
C.G. Huber (11-20/06)
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)
Anouk Llaurens / Tremor I (12-23/12)2023
Kitchen Debates / Jubilee (on a regular basis)
Merle Vorwald (28/12-14/1)
Joan Somers Donnely (16-21/1)
Pauline Lavogez / BUDA (19-26/2)
Catalina Insignares / (29/3-2/4)
Anders Herrebout & Anita Capucinelli (17-23/4))
Lilia Mestre (1-15/5)
Maïte Álvarez & Heikel Mlouka (22-28/5)
Anouk Llaurens / Tremor II (29/5-16/6)
Spa for Spirits / (1-15/7)
C.G. Huber (tbc)
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