MEANDER launch
Meander, ODD, Instituto Procomum , Ensayos
12/12/2020
Tenthaus / Oslo, Norway
A one-day program for the launch of the international platform MEANDER, of which ODD is a part.
A one-day program for the launch of the international platform MEANDER, of which ODD is a part.
MEANDER International Platform is a web platform where members of four initiatives situated in different parts of the world come together to exchange ideas and questions regarding our relations to our environments and fellow life forms.
For the launch of MEANDER, ODD invites the two audio authors to reflect out loud from the tight and limited imagination in Europe, what possibly activates people world-wide to keep an environment pleasurable.
A project initiated by Swimming Pool at the time of lock-down due to the Covid-19 pandemics, that aims to enable an attentive interrelation between art organizations, in order to make concerns, politics and action, but most of all invention, sharable across different contexts and ecosystems.
Piotr Sikora in conversation with Kateřina Konvalinová and Matěj Pavlík, featuring works by Kateřina Konvalinová, Jiří Žák, Lucie Rosenfeldová, Matěj Pavlík.
On the introduction of personal computers into everyday life and the appropriation of Eastern spirituality in communist Poland and Romania.
For those who aren’t hung up on finding their ‘voice’ but don’t necessarily wish to promote their work was ‘uncreative writing’, these supportive but rigorous workshops offer the perfect opportunity to develop a novel or short story at great speed.
Inferiority of the East is now experienced by those who emigrate to the West in a form of essentializing racism that puts Eastern Europeans in a bizarre and dangerous category of “off-white”.
We reflect on the construction of insanity and madness; on madness as a tool of suppression and on the systemic attempts to normalise those out of the norm, of healing the healed; on the entanglement between madness, colonialism and coloniality; on sanity and sanitation.
Live sound performance with Jasmina Al-Qaisi and Ralf Wendt, based on a performance for video by Larisa Crunțeanu in collaboration with Catalina Insignares.