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 2020 ...
radical_house
(2020 onwards)
radical_house is a long term project that stems from radical_hope's
practices: it presents a physical place, a framework and a logic. When
in 2013 teaching and mentoring became an extension of my, Heike
Langsdorf's, artistic practices, radical_house now stems from her
pedagogical experience where 'being in dialogue' with others is her main
principle ...
° How to make art worthy of its time?
As an artist, teacher, researcher and mentor, I am in contact with many younger and older people, who try to find out this question through 'action and reflection'. I want to contribute to this by making a move from my existing work ethics, radical_hope, to a new framework, radical_house.
As an artist, teacher, researcher and mentor, I am in contact with many younger and older people, who try to find out this question through 'action and reflection'. I want to contribute to this by making a move from my existing work ethics, radical_hope, to a new framework, radical_house.
° 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
For me personally, 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.
Bridges from School
In
2021/22 radical_house develops the framework Brdiging 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 caoching 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 is -- radical_house is mentoring their candidates.
House of Practices is
exploring permeability: how to make space in existing places? In
dialogue, through their practices and those of guests, Simone Basani,
Hans Bryssinck, Heike Langsdorf and Miriam Rohde, want to come closer to
what the transformative power of a physical place can be: What does a
place with its specific history, former and current
inhabitants/users allow for? What makes it 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. In 2022 Basani, Langsdorf
and Rohde continue the quest. Currently, invited by the post-master
programme a.pass / Brussels they develop a structure for curating &
mentoring their block in the fall 22.
Main/Tenance
(Latin: manu tenere: control): a form of organization — a system of
rotating responsibilities that turns something into an 'organ'. In
order to be present in practice with/for others in a satisfactory way,
it must be possible to hold something together at different levels:
receiving, creating, producing, presenting, curating, etc. As SPIN vzw
and radical_hope recently started developing ways for working together
in the future there is a concrete motivation
to explore on an organizatorial level what already happened in the
frame of radical_hope's co-creative processes: by wanting and being able
to
rotate responsibilities and practices, a core of people can ensure that
also a larger group of people can sense things, recognize them and
then 'function' together.
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), ...
previous users / temporary residents:
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, 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
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 -- online brunches & open fires (DEC 19, 20, 21)HoP
N.C. (20/7 - 27/7 2020)
a.pass (fall)Bilal Kamilla Arnout (4/8 - 9/8)
CO-Disco days (October - December)
2021
Céline Laloire (weekly between January - March)
BKFF online workshop 2 (March 14 - 19)
Fransien van der Putt & José Jesus (April 8 - 18)
BKFF online workshop 2 (March 14 - 19)
Fransien van der Putt & José Jesus (April 8 - 18)
Irene Lehmann (Oct 1-10)
Out of Order Contemplations (Nov)
Launch of Choreography as Conditioning & Disclosing Practices ...through books / Reading Room (Nov 27)
Delphine Mertens & Lisa Coppi (Dec)
Jietske Vermoortele & Iris Donders (Dec)
HoP
The big leap / (Feb - April) (H. Langsdorf & S. Smeets)
Ceci / M. Gottschal, M. Rohde, S. ten Westenend (May)
CO-Disco Days (April 3, June 5, July 10)
Caveat Reading Room #15 / Clémentine Vaultier (July 26)
Clémentine Vaultier & Students (La Chambre) (Oct 25)
Unrequested Services (S. Basani/A.Ciresola, with Amina Saadi (Oct-Feb)
2022
Maïte Àlvarez (Jan 31 - Feb 4)
Trois Points Collective (February 14 - 23)
To The Lighthouse (March 1 - 6)
Irina Lavrinovic & Asher Lev (throughout Feb / March)
Alex Arteaga (May tbc)
Noon Collective (6 - 10 June)
AISA Mentor Talks (throughout the year)