Post/Pandemics | 2022

Post/Pandemics is a project initiated by radical_hope that

Rather than using calls for participation, selection processes, or strategies to ensure diversity or exclusivity, Post/Pandemics prefers to rely on chance in inviting people into a process of exploration: an exploration of what happens when we do NOT obsessively search for solutions to problems, achievements, results, or umtimate alternatives to the status quo. Freed from the pressure to produce the aforementioned, we might find ways to live satisfying life/s...

After a pre-trajectory, Summer Refuge, in August 2022 at De Markten, Post/Pandemics adopted a seasonal work rhythm. Until December 2023 radical-hope now sets up so-called Refuges at various locations where people can meet 'by chance': open spaces for which Heike Langsdorf and Simone Basani install conditions to engage in a variety of (artistic) practices or just hang out.

Towards the end of 2023, a choreographed conversational space will be created with those people who would like to engage in a more intense collaboration with each other. The work resulting from this last phase of the process will then invite a wider audience.

To keep in touch with each other in-between those Refuge periods, small Re-gatherings are organized together with Alice Ciresola. These meetings are held to share, celebrate and discuss little fabrications – we like to call them documentations –, co-created (during or in-between the Refuge periods) by some of the people who participated.

* Refuges
Summer Refuge : 1/8 — 1/9 *  2022 @ De Markten / Brussels
Winter Refuge : 30/1 — 17/2 *  2023 @ KAAP / Brugge
Spring Refuge : 13/3 — 7/4 * 2023 @ De Markten / Brussels
Spring Refuge : 8/5 — 28/5 *  2023 @ Buda / Kortrijk
Fall Refuge : TBC * 2023 @ De Markten / Brussels