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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Strange Beds (working title)
Fransien Van Der Putt [NL] invites José Jesus [PT] for a residence at radical_house to collaborate and develop a practice of projecting images and words, to reflect and transport presences and absences. They will be working in and out of the rooms, in and around the house with shadows and projections, black and white, moving and still images, both day and night.
Working the natural framing of the spaces, looking for a dialog between shadows and projected light, attending to the idea of habitation, body and sequence. Within the urban context, moments of suspension are proposed, i. e. when the connection of time and space - punctum - is as important as action.
A work in progress open to visitors, working with natural and artificial light and shadows, going from shapes and shades during the day to artificial windows of light piercing the “closed down” environment of the residential area, during the nightshift. Staging context, opening up implicated bodies and buildings to each other, making the pre-existing, overlooked structures the canvas for an input of different rhythms, visual, architectural, fictional..