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20.04.2021

ISSUE #3, April 2021

  1. Codisco, a S P I N project with radical_house
  2. From (co)Learning to (co)Disco
  3. Upcoming, past, cancelled and rescheduled

  1. Codisco, a S P I N project with radical_house

Codisco is an informal education environment radically open, initiated by S P I N — Hans Bryssinck, Laura Deschepper and Anna Czapsky — and for the next few months organized by radical_house in the frame of House of Practices.*

An online/offline format to meet each other for the first time (or not) where hierarchies between different technologies of knowledge, know-how, and expertise are broken.

At Codisco any kind of knowledge that you want to explore together with others is considered meaningful.

From DYI health practices, to hunting empty buildings, from inclusive writing to practical tips for writing a project or an application, any subject that is brought into the space is considered the right subject at the right moment and place.

Codisco is a space, as its name suggests, where to co-learn, learn together, where any doubt is fruitful, any practice or experience can be an opportunity to practice knowledge, care, experimentation, empowerment, emancipation for yourself and the others who learn with you.

Two try-out sessions are happening in spring -- Sat, April 3 and Sat, June 5 -- and an one-day-festival is planned for the summer Sat, July 10 at and around radical_house, and online.

If you are not already in Codisco's mailing list and would like to receive more information or join one of the following three meetings, please mail to: simone@radical-hope.be

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  1. From (co)Learning to (co)Disco

This text was edited by Hans Bryssinck, Anna Czapski and Laura Deschepper. It is based on the documentation of experiences and conversations with many others over the last two years: including Simone Basani, Marcus Berger, Maarten De Vrieze, Pierre Huyghebaert, Katharinajej, Heike Langsdorf, Vincent Pierre Alexis, Aay Liparoto, Sarah Magnan, Sawsan Maher, Mathilde Maillard, Mirra Markhaëva, Kate McIntosh, Diederik Peeters, Agnes Quackels, Erika Sprey, Barbara Van Lindt and Elli Vassalou.

It all started with some people from S P I N inviting some other people, because we were interested in exchange around different learning initiatives and in supporting each other. A changing constellation of people gradually created a shared understanding of what ‘co-learning’ had to offer them.

March 2019. Six people are sitting in a living room in downtown Brussels. One person joins them via a screen. Some more people were invited but couldn´t make it.
We start by creating A, B, C’s related to learning: Antidisestablismentarianism, Affect, Active participation, Body, Being, Care, Community, Circle, Consensual, Celebration, Discrete guidance, Disturb assumptions, Doubt, (…), Kinship, Mash mush, (…), Self-organise, (…), Un-silence, … These words guide us in the first steps of our exchange.

July 2019. Nine people come together in the radical_house, a permeable and supportive space for living, experimenting and meeting in Ixelles (Brussels).
In the morning we have an exchange of practices. Hans invites us to speak from our own subjectivity and to share stories about situations in which we had learned something in a meaningful way. Elli and Mirra speak about The Post Collective and about how they work on deconstructing the solo-identity of an artist, exploring what collective creation can be, and creating a community that is a space for co-learning. Anna and Diederik make us play around with some futurological techniques, inventing new neologisms and pretending to be experts on the topic.
In the afternoon we do some futuring on what a co-learning trajectory could look like involving the people in the room. We imagine a platform that would support and connect different initiatives in Brussels that deal with the question of alternative models of learning. We come up with several metaphors: a round table, or rather several round tables and sitting around those tables as a practice; a tube through which we all put our learning practices from time to time; and an octopus with several thinking limbs and the features of changing color, fitting in different places, pretending to be something else, and communicating via ink blobs.

Time passes. Some people are developing different strategies for finding money. We decide to take a risk and to be ambitious; to look for funding outside of the arts.

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  1. Upcoming, past, cancelled and rescheduled

10.07.2021
Codisco
radical_house, House of Practices, Brussels (BE)

05.06.2021
Codisco
radical_house, House of Practices, Brussels (BE)

27.05.2021 [postponed to 2022]
Apparitions (The Show), Diederik Peeters
Festival Super-Via, Le Manège, Maubeuge (FR)

13-16.05.2021
Worktable, Kate McIntosh
KunstFestspiele Herrenhausen, Hannover (DE)

12-15.05.2021
To Speak Light Pours Out, Kate McIntosh
Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt am Main (DE)

05-06.05.2021 [postponed to 2022]
To Speak Light Pours Out, Kate McIntosh
Vooruit, Gent (BE)

30.04-01.05.2021 [postponed to 2022]
To Speak Light Pours Out, Kate McIntosh
Kaaitheater, Brussels (BE)

24-25.04.2021
Apparition of an Afterlife, Diederik Peeters
House of Mysteries, Gent (BE)

19.04.2021
Guest-Lecture on Schizophonic Apparitions, Diederik Peeters
University of Antwerp, Media-Archeology, Dept. of Theatre Studies, Antwerp (BE)

09.04.2021
Public Talk, Kate McIntosh
Contemporary Arts Center, This Time Tomorrow Festival, Cincinnati, OH (USA)

07-11.04.2021
Worktable, Kate McIntosh
Contemporary Arts Center, This Time Tomorrow Festival, Cincinnati, OH (USA)

03.04.2021
Codisco
radical_house, House of Practices, Brussels (BE)

26.03.2021
Hands On: Invitation, Action & Agency, Kate McIntosh
Dansehallerne, Choreography in Action, Copenhagen (DK)

25.03.2021
Camp International, online workshop w. Kate McIntosh
Back To Back Theatre, Melbourne (AUS)

12-13.03.2021 [postponed to Oct 2021]
Apparitions (The Show), Diederik Peeters
Kaaitheater, Brussels (BE)

10-14.03.2021
Worktable. Kate McIntosh
BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen (NO)

23.01.2021 [postponed to Dec 2021]
Apparitions (The Show), Diederik Peeters
Kc Nona, Mechelen (BE)

20.01.2021
Public Talk, Kate McIntosh
Hellerau, TANZPAKT Academy, Dresden (DE)

15.01.2021 [postponed to 2022]
Apparitions (The Show), Diederik Peeters
Vooruit, Gent (BE)