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radical_hope creates and holds frameworks for research/es and co-creation/s.
radical_house >>> (since 2020) -- next to being a long term research about notions of ownership, privacy and privilege -- provides a physical place in Brussels: here people can temporarily cohabit with the permanent users of the house in order to work, rest or find shelter.
Currently radical_hope_house is co-run and co-curated by Simone Basani, Anthony Chang, Alice Ciresola and Heike Langsdorf. They are supported in their work by a long-standing network of collaborators -- (artistic) practitioners and organizations.
This year, 2025, radical_hope_house is enjoying INTERVAL >>> : A much needed time to re-asses work intentions...
On an administrational plane, radical_hope_house is supported by SPIN vzw through being registered as one of their "wallets".
History & Background
From radical_hope (since 2010) to radical_house (since 2020)
In 2010 radical_hope acted as the title for the research-project of performance artist Heike Langsdorf at a.pass.
Meanwhile it developed into a working ethics and became a platform for artistic research/es and co-creation/s.
During the last few years Langsdorf, together with Simone Basani and Alice Ciresola and others, developped radical_house, moving from her working ethics radical_hope to a new framework and long term research, radical_house. radical_house presents a physical place, a framework and a logic and stems from her pedagogical experience where 'being in dialogue' with others is her main principle.
Heike Langsdorf (1974, Burghausen) lives and works in Brussels. She studied Contemporary Dance at the Conservatory Arnhem (NL), (today: ArtEZ) and the postmaster-program Advanced Performance Training (a.pass) at Antwerp. She worked for and with various theatre makers, choreographers, visuals artists and architects. Between 2000 and 2012 she formed, together with Christophe Meierhans and Christoph Ragg, the collective C&H. Their performative (frame)works explored the conditions for action inside and outside the theatre- and art-context. Since 2010 she produces artistic work with radical_hope, a platform for artistic researche/s and cocreation/s. Langsdorf’s functions are hereby alternating between maker, performer, curator, artistic researcher and pedagoge.
Langsdorf works since 2013 at KASK school of arts HOGENT as a teacher, mentor, coordinator and since 2016 researcher. From 2016 until 2019 she was running @KASK the research-project Distraction as Discipline.
Throughout the years Langsdorf worked and works in dialogue with dramaturges, editors and producers such as Sébastien Hendrickx (2012-14), Jeroen Peeters (2014/15), Kristof Van Baarle (2016/17), Elowise Vandenbroecke (2017/19), Fransien van de Putt (2020-) and Simone Basani (2020-).
Parallel to making artistic work — pieces for stage, interventions, collaborative processes — Heike Langsdorf has always been developing a discursive practice, which ranges from co-organising conferences and symposia and publishing occasionally (on commission). Together with Alex Arteaga she co-edited the book series Choreography as Conditioning (2021), exploring the notions of choreography, understood as ways of organising subjects in their surroundings, and conditioning, in both art-making and society-making.
* picture by French & Mottershead (2010)
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French Mottershead (2010)