Disclosing Practices | 2022
As a framework for radical_hope, Disclosing Practices offers a concrete space and time for dedicated practice research: it stimulates a thorough exploration and presentation of artistic practices.
(more background information further down*)
A "disclosure" devises, identifies, and mobilizes suitable formats, durations, locations, structures, and practitioners to create and provide conditions under which a practice can be unlocked, revealed, shown, demonstrated, exposed, or unfolded. This could result in a workshop, retreat, performative dialogue, a performance or public presentation of new work.
In this sense, a "disclosure" is always an autonomous work in itself, and practitioners authorize (individually or collectively) the form of presentation they develop.
>>> radical_hope uses this framework to connect, invite, and support the development of forms of practice presentation.
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Disclosing Practices was a tentative answer when questioning
the conclusiveness of what a book can carry. These questioning happened in the context of publically launching the book series Choreography as Conditioning (eds. Alex Arteaga and Heike Langsdorf) in 2021. (**)
How to perceive and activate a published book series as an opportunity for continued practicing?
How to approach books as co-practitioners in ongoing processes of sense-making instead of as completed and concluded containers of knowledge?
Disclosing Practices... started off as an open series of workshops, retreats, dialogues, performances and
public presentations supporting artistic research practices to be
uncovered, revisited, reconsidered, rediscovered, disrupted,
re-iterated, re-activated, shared, shown and understood anew in new
contexts, and by new practitioners.
Works which have inscribed themselves in the context of Disclosing Practices... up until now were:
>>> Through The House / To The Lighthouse [2023 at radical_house / Brussels ] by Anne-Beth Schuurmans, Fransien van der Putt, Heike Langsdorf, Iris van Peppen],
>>> With Eyes Closed I See [2024 at *rile / Brussels] by Emilie Gallier, Nina Boas and Nienke Terpsma
>>> Tremor, ritual for oblivion (2025 at Buda / Kortrijk) by Anouk Llaurens
>>> Shadow Studies [2022 - today at various locations] by Fransien van der Putt
(**) The book series Choreography as Conditioning includes (1) Thinking Conditioning through Practice (2018), (2) Practicing Futures through Voicing (2019), (3) The Orphans of Tar (2019), (4) Choreography as Self-Conditioning (2021), and (5) ...Through Practices (2021) -- published by Art Paper Books >>>
>>> MORE on the AUTHORS and CONTENT and AUTHORS of the series and the individual issues.
framework facilitated and supported by :
radical_hope