ODD is part of the launch event of MEANDER International Platform, a web platform where members of four initiatives – MEANDER Society for Ecological Thinking and Artistic Practice (NO/DK), Ensayos (CL/ FR/ US), Instituto Procomum (BR) and ODD (RO/IN) – situated in different parts of the world, come together to exchange ideas and questions regarding our … Continued
MEANDER International Platform is a web platform initiated by MEANDER Society for Ecological Thinking and Artistic Practice (NO/DK) in 2019 and developed in collaboration with Ensayos (CL/ FR/ US), Instituto Procomum (BR) and ODD (RO/IN). The members of the four initiatives, situated in different parts of the world, come together to exchange ideas and questions … Continued
For the launch of MEANDER, an international platform for sustainable practices, of which ODD is a member together with the Meander collective, as well as Instituto Procomum and Ensayos, we have invited our long-term collaborators & friends Jasmina Al-Qaisi and Ralf Wendt to prepare a live radio intervention. The two audio authors will reflect out … Continued
It’s Time All the Time for Radical Friendship is 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, shareable across different contexts and ecosystems. The … Continued
The publication stemming from the collaboration between MettFactory, HIT Gallery, Visual Culture Research Centre, FKSE Studio of Young Artists Association, Trafostacja Sztuki, tranzit.at and ODD is now available.
Drowning, flooding, sinking and dissolving in water. This is going to be about one very specific island – Ada Kaleh – seen by a watery eye (after all eye is nothing by pressurized water). We are going to trace its history, analyze the context, and mourn over its end – inevitable just like the Great … Continued
Cristina Bogdan featured in an exhibition about the independent scene in Romania. Who are these people that make up this so-called independent sector, the independents, or rather, what are they? What kind of conditions made them, what kept them alive until now and when will they be sacrificed? What will they be sacrificed for?
After the introduction of the Martial Law in Poland in 1981, the communist party completely lost its moral legitimacy. Nobody believed in communist ideology anymore. On the other hand, because of the economic crisis of the late 70’s and early 80’s and events that resulted from it – like the functional collapse of the Council … Continued
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. Receive in-depth feedback and benefit from detailed group discussions on the art of using old … Continued
There was a time in the 90s when it seemed that all differences between the East and the West would have been blissfully overcome and, given enough time, Europe would unite into a homogenous social, cultural and economic entity. That was supposed to be our way of living through the end of history. Nowadays it … Continued
With this talk, I will engage not only with the concept of Ultrasanity, but also with some of the fundamental threads and preoccupations of my curatorial research. The possibility of challenging the alleged universality of the scientific discourse, of problematising and undoing its racist, patriarchal, Western-centred and individualistic agenda and infrastructure, and of unravelling disruptive … Continued
“When you sleep I make sure you stay breathing, make sure I’m there when you open your eyes, as you’re slightly stricken upon remembering the prison your body has become.”[1] Maggie Nelson, The Hospital for Special Care Gestures of affection are doomed to be stuck, impossible to deroot from sex. Gestures of love cannot … Continued
The Cultural Class is a transdisciplinary cultural project based on the idea that the analysis of the ideological and political positions of the various cultural “agents” can allow a deeper understanding of the role and function of culture and of contemporary art.
Underbelly, based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, is basically a curated collection disguised as a shop. It doesn’t have a regular outlet except the webshop but it materializes in different ways depending on the occasion. Curator Mariëtte Groot focuses on avant-garde old and new, in sound, film and other media. Critical as she is towards vague, … Continued
Arguably, many characteristics of today’s Internet culture were anticipated in 1970s and 1980s counter-cultures and non-institutional/samizdat art practices including Mail Art, zines and cassette tape music. Upon close inspection, many so-called issues of today’s Internet can also be found in them: junk mail, viruses, crashes, fascist trolling and complex system administration. In the first part … Continued
One of the big contradictions of the scene of self-organised cultural initiatives is that we are extremely reliant on corporate social media when it comes to our digital presence. For example, it seems both unthinkable and inescapable to organise an evening without a corresponding Facebook event, or to plan that evening without Google Docs or … Continued
The presentation reflects on the interaction between some dominant political views and selected artistic and cultural practice at independent art scene in Serbia in the period of two decades (1999-2019). The period, which is usually referred to as “transitional” is marked by a permanent turmoil in ideological and political understanding and positioning of contemporary art … Continued
TALK SAVVY Contemporary | The laboratory of form-ideas is an art space, discursive platform, place for good talks, foods and drinks––a space for conviviality. Founded in 2009 by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, SAVVY Contemporary situates itself at the threshold of notions of the West and non-West, to understand and deconstruct them. SAVVY Contemporary is a … Continued
In this session we focus our listening on the multi-modality of voice. We venture to listen to voice beyond privileging tone, frequency or pitch, complexifying words, morphology, and language through vocality of sounds or non-verbal utterances. We will survey how forming meaning through the mouth, face, muscle and flesh, translates into possibilities of listening to … Continued
In this session we attempt to bend time, listen to the reverb an echo chamber, urged by traversing early experimentations in electronic music production. We fast-forward, rewind, we are beside time, we pause, and listen together towards a multifaceted history of experimental music and sound arts. This kinship of music, sounds, recordings, which led our … Continued
With the UNTRAINING THE EAR LISTENING SESSIONS we propose exercises to decipher sound beyond its contextual affiliation of geography, genre, and valences of identity. It is an attempt to press II [pause] to the daily storm of sonic vibrations, and voice a call to examine and explore the auditory beyond the hearing and start to LISTEN.
Below the epithelial waters, pressure is escalating until the lowest floors of the deep sea. Light is scarce, if any. The activities aim to improve orientation in an atmosphere of thick air. Ioana Gheorghiu and Alex Bălă: new sonic entity (protocols in progress) feeding analogue endeavors with electronic strata. They aggregate solutions slowly, colliding field … Continued
What moves things in the political field, beside money, beside the macro-sociological objectivities? What is the link between depression and privatization? Hatred and class? Can we think the revolutionary situation starting with the emotions – any kind of emotions? What is it that structures the affects and renders them effective, “objectify” them? Empathy, is … Continued
With the first edition of LIMINAL, Festival of Art, Science & Technology we explored how can we live the unlivable, the overwhelming everyday by thinking about more authentic forms of the oh-yeah GOOD LIFE. For this year’s edition we wish to wander through the UNSEEN, that which happens behind our not so watchful eyes when … Continued
Cristina Bogdan invited by Minitremu to the New Pedagogies Forum, alongside Alexandre Gurita of the subversive Biennale de Paris and Adi Costache of Editura IDEA.
Cristina Bogdan invited to speak at a symposium part of Biennale Warszawa which will try to map the shifting political landscape, with a special focus on the condition of the (semi)periphery.
Whether we like it or not, we live in spaces driven by power. How do we chose to work with such spaces, or to contest, to confront, to hijack, to use them? How much is it in fact not in my power, but it precedes the moment I make my choice and overdetermines it? This … Continued
The diversification of the labor processes in the post-industrial era has broadened the labor division. The work field is geographically deterritorialized and operationally fragmented. The factory – the time/space unity that enabled the labor force to organize politically – is destructured. The intellectual labor, and more precisely the cultural labor has gone through similar transformations. … Continued
This series of three meetings proposed by Ovid Pop is centered around the notion of embodied knowledge. Embodied knowledge is structured knowledge that runs through and employs our bodies. In this sense, the knowledge one operates with is specific, localized. Nevertheless, the discursive directions and the tools, that generate (acknowledged) knowledge, are globally designed. Here … Continued
Andrei Crăciun gets out of the club.
For the 27th ODD NIGHT, we invite you deep into the rainforest, in the middle of the concrete city, for a night of unearthly celebrations with a festive dash of a b-day party. Come in peace, yet plan to unleash all party creatures out there (literally, so animal print dress code is highly recommended). Entrance … Continued
Morfolina is a project that mediates the dialogue between ethical expressivity and electro-experimental transmissions, within the performative act titled The Fairy at the Gym. By channeling philosophy, recycling, in an invisible way, any form of pragmatic spirituality or insidiously juxtaposing poetry on dubious trap interludes, the show aims to trigger an intense and interrogative flow of exaltation. … Continued
State of facts: How can the understanding of a very important thing produce the effect of a surprise? Like when you see someone getting closer to you and you start recognizing their features. Someone unexpected, who just couldn’t be there, at that precise moment: the gaze remains fixed. And deep down the constant feeling of … Continued
Introspective invites for the first time a guest from abroad to Bucharest. We’ve been wanting to invite Puce Mary here for a long time and we are finally having the Scandinavian artist perform to the local audience. Her music is a work of uniquely sounding noise—raw and disturbingly honest, needing no words to describe it. … Continued
“You can’t just expect love you have to earn it, snarling back at the indolent precarious day by night workers pretending not to be tired or in grief but for the £3.70 you are promised and in fact you can’t be in love not at the moment, anything you amount to must have a strategy, … Continued
In 2019, ODD continues the collaboration with Prague-based residency space MeetFactory, started in 2018. In the first stage, ODD members Cosmina Moroșan (poet, performer) and Anticorp Solar (visual artist, beat/ noise maker) will collaborate on a performance gravitating around Gilbert Simondon’s pioneering concepts in relation to the ethics of technology. This hybrid work, that features … Continued
For this year’s first Introspective, Iancu Dumitrescu, one of the strongest inspirations behind the aspirations and drive of these series, will be presenting an intimate walk through his compositions across time and give details on the process and context embedded within them. Previous guest, Șerban Netejoru, whom we’ve had alongside Victor Stütz, Alexandru Badea and … Continued
ODD THEORY has been since the beginning an attempt to understand as well as to reconfigure, with the delicate means afforded by a small-scale initiative, the Romanian imaginary. It functioned as a learning and sharing tool, and in the current configuration succeeded in its initial bet of bringing together a community of curious and courageous … Continued
Uncommon constellations, unmediated territories, common oddities. From Bucharest to Jogja and back again, the exchange residency connects grassroots artistic organizations – ODD in Bucharest with KUNCI Cultural Center, MES 56 and Lifepatch in Yogyakarta – in order to trace new real and imagined lines of decolonization. The resulting publication plays upon the notion of mirroring … Continued
The output of the written sediments developed in the performances created by Mara Genschel for the project with the same name hosted by ODD, fuse into an experimental, four-handed designed chapbook, co-authored with Anca Bucur. The chapbook conflates poetical and theoretical pieces, aiming to zoom in the space of interference between the two and their … Continued
Bringing together original contributions by the Cristina Vasilescu, Nora Silva, Ami Clarke and Nilz Källgren, the zine asks: in times of increasing mass surveillance and hypervisibility – what is privacy, and how is it manifested? Has privacy become a notion of nostalgia – an exotic algorithm? Designed to accompany the project with the same name, … Continued
“Every form of life lives in its own in-here, an interior that strives to be un-representable. When moving out in the unbound exterior, it turns its interiority into flamelicks of affect, trying to reach out, to incorporate the information found in the other. Looking at worms, algae, cliffs and shores, the zine tries to explore … Continued
The nomadic series reaches the dark corners of a famous Bucharest discotheque. Our host space Moxa20 has a limited capacity of 50 people. Therefore, the first 50 people to arrive will find enough room to enter. We kindly ask you to be there before 8PM sharp to accupy your place. We will keep in touch … Continued
On 10.11.2018, ODD was a guest in Swimming Pool’s international symposium on curating and art project spaces, which is part of the initiative’s Curatorial School Public Program.
During this nomadic year, ODD NIGHTS has experienced an entire series of metamorphoses, from format to venue to this last minute line up change that we couldn’t be happier about. If anyone had told us even a year ago that we would end our fourth season with such a show, we would have never believed them. Margaret … Continued
The publication Coiled Verbal Spring: Devices of Lenin’s Language brings together the first English language translation of the Russian Formalist and Futurist writings on Lenin’s revolutionary language. The book includes the Russian Formalists’ (Vikto Shklovsky, Boris Eikhenbaum, Yuri Tynyanov, Tomashevsky, Lev Yakubinsky, and Boris Kazansky) most ‘political’ texts, first published in 1924 in the journal of … Continued
What are the non-Occidentalist resources of radical imagination of the “other Europe”, and how can the former socialist bloc and its allies rearticulate hope in today’s world? What is to be done …when the “European dream” is not only criticized, but potentially abandoned in a turn towards autarchy, ethno-nationalism and/or fundamentalist forms of Christianity? …at … Continued
In the dim scenery of post-digital materialities, the difference between public and private starts to contort and dilute, making room for hybrid, contaminated, colonized forms to appear. Flows of indeterminacy navigate our composite reality. And it is precisely the uncanny medium of language which encapsulates and contracts these shifts and variations, epistemic conflations and onto-logical … Continued
Version History Lecture 26/10/2018 19:00 Earlier this year, Triple Canopy celebrated the tenth anniversary of its first issue, “The Medium Was Tedium.” In the ensuing ten years and twenty-five issues, the magazine has explored different conceptual frameworks and developed publishing systems that have operated with (and against) shiftings forms of contemporary networked cultural production, … Continued
London-based performance company There There is in residency at ODD between 1-7 November. During their stay, they will be expanding Trigger Warning, a participatory installation which contests stereotypes about Eastern European immigrants. In Bucharest, they are planning to collaborate with a group of former Romanian immigrants – together they will develop a new game for … Continued
This session’s motif is NU, Ionescu style. Stütz doesn’t see music, but given a cinema screen, synesthesia will be channelled through the collages of Alex Badea and the live visual alterations of Șerban Netejoru and Dan Fiera. Beware, there will be strobe lights. Donation toward rent for the space: 5 lei.
Privilege Escalation Public talk Wednesday, October 10th 7 -9 pm Privilege escalation is the exploitation of a flaw within a computer operating system to acquire elevated access to resources that are normally out of reach for the user performing the exploit. In this talk Aymeric Mansoux will discuss the ongoing techno-legal transformation of society into a … Continued
In the dim scenery of post-digital age, the difference between public and private starts to contort and dilute, making room for hybrid and contaminated forms to appear. Flows of indeterminacy navigate our composite reality. And it is precisely the territory of language which encapsulates and contracts these shifts and variations, conflations and onto-logical swaps. Following … Continued
If the image of the future has already been colonized by the inevitability of a planetary automation or by the Singularity, is it at all possible to re-introduce alieness in metaphysics beyond a master pattern that knows it all? As neural nets experiment with predictive learning, they also evolve machine percepts and concepts. These are … Continued
For la rentrée, we are humbled to host a special live set from electronic music wiz Felix Kubin. Kubin is one of the most versatile and dynamic performers in electronic music. A child of bedroom recordings, his activities include pop music, radio plays, electroacousticmcomposition and works for chamber orchestras. His music is saturated by an … Continued
The Commons Around Us: a workshop for a commons based society Workshop held by Georgia Nicolau 20.09.2018 5-7 pm This workshop is an invitation to look at the world through the commons from the experiences of each participant. An experiment in construction developed by the Procomum Institute, a Brazilian organization that has the commons as … Continued
The scripting of language and code conjoin with a suspect ‘liveness’ of performance in Ami Clarke’s assemblage of two works; Error-Correction: an introduction to future diagrams (2010 – ongoing) and Low Animal Spirits (2014). Error-Correction: an introduction to future diagrams is a script reflecting on the influence of calculus, in which each articulation is just … Continued
The human’s most primal impulse and the one that has shaped our species is our anxiety to foresee. Humans turned into farmers a few thousand years ago not because they would be best nourished[1], but because they could anticipate their dinner. This hunger to know has reached a peak: we now know everything. And not … Continued
Person 1 i dont mind the runner, i dont like the hunter Person too The runner and the gunner Person 1 more vibes but nt fully on money Person too Think i prefer human to person as script then suggests other actors Person 1 y does it hv to b two humans speaking, thought whole … Continued
Far-right organizations are increasingly setting the political agenda in the so-called western world. Their nihilism bleeds vividly into everyday life, opening a toxic conduit between anti-establishment sentiment and outright racism and misogyny. Yet these are fascists without fascism as a fully developed political doctrine, whom we may call post-, neo-, crypto- or techno-fascist. Hence the … Continued
The first ODD NIGHT of the Fall brings together White Death, the austere sonic environments of Kelly Jayne Jones and Hannah Ellul, with ODD darlings Autem, the music/poetry project of Cosmina Moroșan and Anticorp Solar. For their performance at ODD, Jones and Ellul will present new work developed from a residency earlier this year at the … Continued
In times of increasing mass surveillance and hypervisibility – what is privacy, and how is it manifested? Has privacy become a notion of nostalgia – an exotic algorithm? Curator Cristina Vasilescu invites artists Nora Silva, Ami Clarke and Nilz Källgren to stretch, distort and investigate contemporary notions of privacy. Three ‘installations’, or private entities, clash … Continued
Taking form of a personal poetic-essay, Lou Lou Sainsbury’s publication & performance The Unstable Condition of Zhong Zhong & Hua Hua, interweaves a spiralling riddle of desire, intimacy and recent developments in non-human primate testing. During a dream, the recent birth of two cloned crab-eating macaques sisters ‘Zhong Zhong’ & ‘Hua Hua’ become precariously enmeshed … Continued
In 2018, ODD is a partner in the Meetfactory Arists-in-Residency project The New Dictionary of Old Ideas, a network of independent cultural institutions within Central and Eastern Europe. The platform we aim to create comes along with the process of cultural exchange and intense research of our common identity. Through political issues, visual culture, art theory, … Continued
For our first collaboration with Control Club, we’re bringing two mighty techno goddesses to share their gloomy dancefloor experiments. Lizzie Davis aka Wilted Woman creates glistening, syncopated rhythms using analogue electronics that merge industrial, music concrète and acid into exciting, new mutant techno. The New York-born, Berlin-based producer will perform a special live set for us. … Continued
QUIET ODD #17_Video Battle II Selection by Adelina Luft Kinema Ikon Muzeul de Artă Arad 6.7.18 18.30 – 20.30 The second session of Video Battle at Quiet ODD continues with selections from Indonesia and Malaysia, this time presented at Kinema Ikon in Arad. The videos concentrate around the interactions between artists and the city … Continued
For our first collaboration with Control Club, we’re bringing two mighty techno goddesses to share their gloomy dancefloor experiments. Lizzie Davis aka Wilted Woman creates glistening, syncopated rhythms using analogue electronics that merge industrial, music concrète and acid into exciting, new mutant techno. The New York-born, Berlin-based producer will perform a special live set for us. … Continued
The second session of Video Battle at QUIET ODD continues with selections from Indonesia and Malaysia, this time presented at Kinema Ikon in Arad. The videos concentrate around the interactions between artists and the city in post-Reformation Indonesia, spanning over different years and genres. Placed in a context when video appeared mainly as a tool … Continued
Introspective #5 _ Micleușanu M. & A. Patatics 29.6.2018 21:30 tranzit.ro/București Gazelei 44 An odd combo happens on Friday night. Following What’s left? (final presentation of Indonesian residents at ODD), we dive into Introspective featuring Micleușanu M. & A. Patatics. Micleușanu M. is a writer, musician and visual artist. He published short stories and novels … Continued
What’s left A performative dinner prepared by Elia Nurvista, Wimo Ambala Bayang, Adelina Luft 27.6.2018 at 9, Nicolae Balcescu bld., sixth floor The residency in Bucharest has catapulted the residents from Indonesia into an unaltered apartment from the 70s decorated in a paradoxical crowded blend of bourgeois style, orthodox shrines, and a familiar socialist … Continued
An odd combo happens on Friday night. Following What’s left? (final presentation of Indonesian residents at ODD), we dive into Introspective featuring Micleușanu M. & A. Patatics.
The residency in Bucharest has catapulted the residents from Indonesia into an unaltered apartment from the 70s decorated in a paradoxical crowded blend of bourgeois style, orthodox shrines, and a familiar socialist touch, for almost a month. Like in a cabinet of curiosities, the residents immersed in the house’s configuration, turning it into a headquarter … Continued
Lou Lou Sainsbury & Georgiana Cojocaru present their double zine launch & lecture-performance of poetry, essay and diary entries, including the projects The Unstable Condition of Zhong Zhong & Hua Hua and To be emptied out to glorious non-returns. Taking form of a personal poetic-essay, Lou Lou Sainsbury’s publication & performance The Unstable Condition of Zhong Zhong & Hua … Continued
The Nü Sensitivity Reader is an elaboration on the themes introduced in the Nü Sensitivity project. Conceived as an exhibition space in and of itself – the publication includes new texts, images and propositions by the artist, as well as notes and excerpts from some of Shaun’s favorite texts on blackness, subjectivity, and cultural production. The zine accompanies the … Continued
ODD NIGHT #21 _ Jupiter Terminus _ Syntax 14.6.2018 20:30 tranzit.ro/București “We improvised, and the improvisation had its crisis: it was blocked. We improvised and the unfolding of the improvisation bugged: we stayed there, and here is our music. We improvise, and what is supposed to happen in the suspense of memory, the suspense … Continued
“We improvised, and the improvisation had its crisis: it was blocked. We improvised and the unfolding of the improvisation bugged: we stayed there, and here is our music. We improvise, and what is supposed to happen in the suspense of memory, the suspense of the project, the suspense of this against which relies the fluctuating … Continued
“Memory is never shaped in a vacuum; the motives of memory are never pure.” (James Edward Young, The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning). But may memory be shaped in an incubator? Living, local and non-local, communicative and contained? The incubator works as a fluid environment that refuses to solidify, an inert and living … Continued
Introspective #4 _ Piotr Tkacz 25.5.2018 20:00 Kołorking Muzyczny ul. Święty Marcin 75, 61-808 Poznan, Poland Piotr Tkacz (b. 1985), improviser, organiser, DJ. He is a part of such music projects as Radioda, Revue svazu českých architektů, Stupor, Lata, Sumpf and has also recorded with Alice Hui-Sheng Chang, Herman Müntzing, Pascal Battus and Seiji Morimoto. … Continued
Join us for a reading group organized by our artist in residence Shaun Motsi. Shaun’s interest in how narratives are constructed, appropriated, undermined and propagated, both through his artistic praxis and through his writing. During his one-month residency at ODD, in Bucharest, and prior to the launch of his artist publication The Nü Sensitivity Reader, … Continued
To the Reader (A Prologue to Nü Sensitivity) Shaun Motsi 24.5.2018 19:00 Tranzit.ro/București Join us for a reading group organized by our artist in residence Shaun Motsi. Shaun’s interest in how narratives are constructed, appropriated, undermined and propagated, both through his artistic praxis and through his writing. During his one-month residency at ODD, in Bucharest, and prior to the … Continued
Piotr Tkacz, Polish improviser, organiser and DJ will present Radio Bluszcze. In darkness through a tunnel, via all those cables and strange machines to put in on tapes, running and ruining, one way and back again.
Shaun Motsi’s interest in how narratives are constructed, appropriated, undermined and propagated, runs interchangeably, both through his artistic praxis and through his writing. After concluding his one month residency at ODD, in Bucharest, Motsi will present his ongoing research, condensed in a new artist publication that looks at his body of work Nü Sensitivity. The publication The Nü Sensitivity … Continued
“The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we’ve learned most of what we know. Recently, we’ve waded a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting. Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return, and we can, … Continued
Stargate is a modular and sensorial installation, an opportunity to communicate non-verbally & get close to one another. The installation is made of bamboo and covered in magical symbols written or painted by local artists, who are invited to take part in he project. It features a screen where live streaming from Bucharest and various movies … Continued
The l lies between the words and the worlds. Between the words lies the world. Between the worlds lies the word. The l between the words and the worlds lies. As anything placed in between, its character is ambiguous. The l lies between the words and the worlds. Between the words lies the world. Between … Continued
Preliminary Remarks on the Study of What Is Not There lays the foundations for the study of what is not there. What is there, which is not there? What are its categories and what methods are appropriate to approach it? The research brings together philosophy, science and art in search of things which are not there … Continued
The first ODD NIGHT of 2018 is an encounter between two powerful live performers and a local pop dream. Listen to the full recording of the night here:
ODD is happy to announce its first curatorial program for 2018, Who Cares, an artistic and cultural exchange between two cities of the South-East, Bucharest and Yogyakarta, co-funded by AFCN.
ODD NIGHT #20 _ City Dragon & Bed Dataries _ inana 29.3.2018 19:30 tranzit.ro/Bucuresti In 2018, ODD NIGHTS goes bigger, as each listening session will introduce local and international projects that we found interesting. As always, we aim to encourage dialogue, so each audition will be followed by relaxed networking. City Dragon is the … Continued
Anca Bucur is a Bucharest-based poet and video-performance artist, co-founder and editor-in-chief at frACTalia press, and editor at InterRe:ACT magazine. Being interested in techno-culture and bio-technological framings of future communities, she often works with text, images and computer software. In her poetry she makes use of post-conceptual techniques, experimenting with different types of language(s) and … Continued
FUR SESSIONS Domesticated spaces. Taming the public Mara Genschel & Anca Bucur 1-30.10.2018 In the dim scenery of post-digital age, the difference between public and private starts to contort and dilute, making room for hybrid and contaminated forms to appear. Flows of indeterminacy navigate our composite reality. And it is precisely the territory of language … Continued
What Tears Us Apart, Brings Us Together (Stargate) Installation by V. Leac Stargate is a modular and sensorial installation, an opportunity to communicate non-verbally & get close to one another. The installation is made of bamboo and covered in magical symbols written or painted by local artists, who are invited to take part in he … Continued
Preliminary Remarks on the Study of What Is Not There lecture performance by Irina Gheorghe 5.4.2018 KUNCI Cultural Studies Centre Preliminary Remarks on the Study of What Is Not There lays the foundations for the study of what is not there. What is there, which is not there? What are its categories and what methods … Continued
Foreign Language for Beginners performance by Irina Gheorghe 29.3.2018 KUNCI Cultural Studies Centre The l lies between the words and the worlds. Between the words lies the world. Between the worlds lies the word. The l between the words and the worlds lies. As anything placed in between, its character is ambiguous. The l lies … Continued
Pulau Semesta / Island Universe COZZZMONAUTICA edition in Yogyakarta Arranged by Ștefan Tiron 3.4.2018 “The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we’ve learned most of what we know. Recently, we’ve waded a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting. Some … Continued
Wimo Ambala Bayang (b. 1976, Magelang, Indonesia) is an artist who works with photography and video, based in Yogyakarta. His works reflect unique perspectives on culture that are not made under a pretense to criticize, but to make us rethink the habits that seem ‘to have always been there’. History and facts, minor and major, … Continued
After all, what is left? Wimo Ambala Bayang, Adelina Luft, Elia Nurvista 7.6. – 10.7. 2018 1989, 1998 stand as two mirrors facing each other, looking at and through each other, taking turns. These are not mirrors for oneself, but mirrors turned to history. And yet, we now gaze at them with advanced capitalist glasses having left mere … Continued
Cosmic Languages Cristina Bogdan, Irina Gheorghe, V. Leac, Ștefan Tiron 15.3. – 15.4. 2018 at Lifepatch, MES 56 and KUNCI Cultural Center
Who Cares? An exchange between Bucharest and Yogyakarta 15.3. – 15.11.2018 The project is an artistic and cultural exchange between two cities of the South-East, Bucharest and Yogyakarta. Both are important regional artistic centers with a cultural and political impact at a regional and international level. East Europe and Southeast Asia are cultural and … Continued
The Unstable Condition of Zhong Zhong & Hua Hua Zine Launch 23.6.2018 20:00 tranzit.ro/București Lou Lou Sainsbury & Georgiana Cojocaru present their double zine launch & lecture-performance of poetry, essay and diary entries, including the projects The Unstable Condition of Zhong Zhong & Hua Hua and To be emptied out to glorious non-returns. Taking … Continued
Lou Lou Sainsbury is a non-binary artist, curator and activist based in Margate, UK. Their work spans through video, performance, text, installation and sound, curatorially situated in collaborative forms of participatory learning and artists’ film. In 2016, they founded the moving image research & screening platform Synthetic Ecology. In 2017, they were an Associate Artist … Continued
The Unstable Condition of Zhong Zhong & Hua Hua Lou Lou Sainsbury & Georgiana Cojocaru 7-28.6.2018 “Memory is never shaped in a vacuum; the motives of memory are never pure.” (James Edward Young, The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning). But may memory be shaped in an incubator? Living, local and non-local, communicative and … Continued
Shaun Motsi (1989, Harare) looks specifically at the politics of language and narrativity, and how identities and realities are both constructed from and through language. Motsi has had solo and group exhibitions at Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, and PSM-Gallery in Berlin, STORE Contemporary, Dresden, After the Butcher, Berlin, 0DX, Berlin, 8Eleven, Toronto, TOVES, Copenhagen, and Center, Berlin. … Continued
The Nü Sensitivity Anthology Shaun Motsi & Adriana Blidaru 16.5. – 12.6.2018 Shaun Motsi’s interest in how narratives are constructed, appropriated, undermined and propagated, runs interchangeably, both through his artistic praxis and through his writing. After concluding his one month residency at ODD, in Bucharest, Motsi will present his ongoing research, condensed in a … Continued
Cristina Vasilescu is a curator based between London and Bucharest. She is part of London-based collective clearview, Event and Programme Assistant at ICA, London and the curator of forthcoming project with artist-in-residence Nora Silva –I Never Went – The death of anonymity. A carnival turned a mourning– at ODD, Bucharest among other things. Through curated … Continued
I Never Went The death of anonymity. A carnival turned a mourning Nora Silva & Cristina Vasilescu 15.8. – 15.10.2018 The human’s most primal impulse and the one that has shaped our species is our anxiety to foresee. Humans turned into farmers a few thousand years ago not because they would be best nourished[1], … Continued
The project is an artistic and cultural exchange between two cities of the South-East, Bucharest and Yogyakarta. Both are important regional artistic centers with a cultural and political impact at a regional and international level. East Europe and Southeast Asia are cultural and political constructs which along the years have shown a capacity to coagulate … Continued
Suddenly we discovered that we live in a “post-truth world”. Our trust in liberal cyber-optimism was replaced by disappointment. From now on, in order to claim that we understand well what happens, we will have to leave behind not only the TV but also the Facebook account… No. It’s not like that. It’s not so … Continued
SAVAGED pINK. A History of 90s Gay Media, previously hosted at ODD as part of PRIVATELY, travels to an important space in Iași.
ODD THEORY #10 _ Post-truth Ovidiu Gherasim-Proca 3.3.2018 17:00 – 19:00 Suddenly we discovered that we live in a “post-truth world”. Our trust in liberal cyber-optimism was replaced by disappointment. From now on, in order to claim that we understand well what happens, we will have to leave behind not only the TV but … Continued
The production of video in Indonesia emerged against the backdrop of the socio-political unrest marked by the downfall of Suharto’ authoritarian regime (1998) and it was rapidly embraced as a tool and medium by both activists and artists. During late 1980s and beginning of 1990s, video art was mainly used as integrated elements in installation … Continued
QUIET ODD #16 _ VIDEO BATTLE (I) Selection by Adelina Luft 11.2.2018 20:00 MNLR attic The production of video in Indonesia emerged against the backdrop of the socio-political unrest marked by the downfall of Suharto’ authoritarian regime (1998) and it was rapidly embraced as a tool and medium by both activists and artists. During … Continued
Maxime Coton reading 15.2.2018 18:30 MNLR attic The International Institute of Contemporary Art and Theory, run by Ingrid Pimsner, overlooks the Black Sea in the town of Mangalia, Romania. Each summer, the program hosts international scholars, professionals, and students who are interested in art theory, art history, and art making. For two weeks this past September, … Continued
ODD NIGHT #19 _ Bolintin 25.1.2018 20:00 MNLR attic The first ODD NIGHT this year comes with a dreamy live act. After releasing two tracks on the world wide web, Bolintin will have their very first live performance, presenting unreleased songs in a poetic and melancholic audition. instrumental: Cosmin Postolache lyrics/vocals: Dan Sociu … Continued
The first ODD NIGHT this year comes with a dreamy live act. After releasing two tracks on the world wide web, Bolintin will have their very first live performance, presenting unreleased songs in a poetic and melancholic audition. instrumental: Cosmin Postolache lyrics/vocals: Dan Sociu
Imagine you just got in one of Romania’s post industrial cities. It’s January around 6pm and the sun is already gone. Walking on the few streets that lurk around the city centre you can observe people going in and out of buildings with futile capitalist function, some noisy kids with their parents going home, an … Continued
Introspective #3 _ Stimmung 19.1.2018 20:00 MNLR attic Imagine you just got in one of Romania’s post industrial cities. It’s January around 6pm and the sun is already gone. Walking on the few streets that lurk around the city centre you can observe people going in and out of buildings with futile capitalist function, some … Continued
In 2018, ODD turns to the East of a different continent – Asia – to understand the stakes of artistic production. We commission 3 curators to make their own selection of artist films from Indonesia, Singapore and Hong Kong. Image credits: Wimo Ambala Bayang.
In 2017, ODD makes its first attempt at a fully curated program. Exhibitions and performances, work groups and public debates – all gather under the banner of privacy, a term we set out to understand and re-signify. Alongside an annual program of residencies and exhibitions, the long-term series QUIET ODD continues in 2017. It is produced … Continued
For our first attempts at showcasing artist videos, we focused on the atmosphere: the invited artist would show her/his films whilst another distinguished guest would delight the audience with their cooking. We often paired Romanian artists with foreign ones.
P R I V A T E L Y II After inviting artists, curators and other thinkers to investigate the notion of privacy as part of our 2017 program, a shared interest in means & methods of coming together emerged. From various angles, our guests questioned contemporary possibilities of sharing space, ideas and emotions at … Continued
For our anniversary event, we are launching our first publication, edited by Cristina Bogdan, with contributions by Anca Bucur, Florian Cramer, Adriana Gheorghe, V. Leac, Bogdan Lypkhan, Nita Mocanu, Cosmina Moroșan, Germán Sierra, Marius Stoica, Vlad Levente Viski, designed by Mihai Șovăială and published by Editura Fractalia. All the original contributions further question issues developed … Continued
It’s been a long and fruitful year in which ODD put forward its first fully curated program – PRIVATELY – focusing on notions of contemporary privacy. For our anniversary event, we are launching our first publication, edited by Cristina Bogdan, with contributions by Anca Bucur, Florian Cramer, Adriana Gheorghe, V. Leac, Bogdan Lypkhan, Nita Mocanu, … Continued
For its anniversary event, ODD is launching its first publication, edited by Cristina Bogdan, with contributions by Anca Bucur, Florian Cramer, Adriana Gheorghe, V. Leac, Bogdan Lypkhan, Nita Mocanu, Cosmina Moroșan, Germán Sierra, Marius Stoica, Vlad Levente Viski, designed by Mihai Șovăială and published by Editura Fractalia. All the original contributions further question issues developed … Continued
In 2017, ODD begins to publish accounts of its adventures. Never exhibition catalogues, always unexpected mixes and projections. All books are devised in collaboration with Fractalia.
three years ODD 20.12.2017 20:00 It’s been a long and fruitful year in which ODD put forward its first fully curated program – PRIVATELY – focusing on notions of contemporary privacy. For our anniversary event, we are launching our first publication, edited by Cristina Bogdan, with contributions by Anca Bucur, Florian Cramer, … Continued
QUIET ODD #15 _ In the Event of Amnesia 5.12.2017 20:00 For the last QUIET ODD session in collaboration with n.b.k., Video Forum curator Silke Wittig selected four videos by Niklas Goldbach, Denis Beaubois, Mwangi Hutter and Yael Bartana, exposing different reflections on privacy in public space. Niklas Goldbach, Habitat C3B, 2008, 7:36 … Continued
For the last QUIET ODD session in collaboration with n.b.k., Video Forum curator Silke Wittig selected four videos by Niklas Goldbach, Denis Beaubois, Mwangi Hutter and Yael Bartana, exposing different reflections on privacy in public space. Niklas Goldbach, Habitat C3B, 2008, 7:36 min Since 2005, Niklas Goldbach (* 1973 in Witten, lives in Berlin) works … Continued
Introspective #1 _ Somnoroase Păsărele 24.11.2017 21.00 Somnoroase Păsărele is an abstract electronics project by Gili Mocanu. The name (Sleepy Birds) comes from a bed time poem written by Mihai Eminescu, national poet of Romania. He’s had fascinating recordings released on Tymbal Tapes, Baba Vanga, Czaszka, and Magical Garage Taste. His style is distinctive, utilizing atypical … Continued
Introspective is an audition series that provides a public context for the kind and multitude of music which is otherwise listened to in private spaces: from the microcosm of headphones to at-home intimate gatherings. The pushed to be peculiar, the ‘abnormal’, is brought out with the intention to shed light onto experiment, the beauty of … Continued
EIN OKTOPUS HAT 3 HERZEN 17.11.2017 19:00 An Octopus has eight arms. Each their own personality. One for everybody and all for all. They communicate with each other without referencing the brain. Quirky moves consisting of multiple authorships. That’s why people say octopodes can eat themselves. A body, a field of distensible skin and taste … Continued
Somnoroase Păsărele is an abstract electronics project by Gili Mocanu. The name (Sleepy Birds) comes from a bed time poem written by Mihai Eminescu, national poet of Romania. He’s had fascinating recordings released on Tymbal Tapes, Baba Vanga, Czaszka, and Magical Garage Taste. His style is distinctive, utilizing atypical synth sounds and asymmetrical or no rhythmic elements. … Continued
ODD NIGHT #18 _ Max Eilbacher Talk & performance 3.11.2017 18:30 Our next ODD NIGHT fabulous guest is Baltimore native and synth wunderkind Max Eilabcher. He’s the kind of person that would easily fly under your radar, although his CV would put many electronic music veterans to shame. Before 27 he has already released … Continued
Our next ODD NIGHT fabulous guest is Baltimore native and synth wunderkind Max Eilbacher. He’s the kind of person that would easily fly under your radar, although his CV would put many electronic music veterans to shame. Before 27 he has already released the excellent Red Anxiety Tracers on Editions Mego, did a residency at … Continued
ODD NIGHT #17 poemproducer 4.10.2017 20:00 We are super honoured to have German producer and female:pressure ambassador Antye Greie aka AGF play our next ODD NIGHT. Antye (or Agee, as friends call her) grew up in East Berlin and witnessed first hand the fall of the Wall and the rise of techno culture. As a … Continued
We are super honoured to have German producer and female:pressure ambassador Antye Greie aka AGF play our next ODD NIGHT. Antye (or Agee, as friends call her) grew up in East Berlin and witnessed first hand the fall of the Wall and the rise of techno culture. As a teen, she experienced the down break of the … Continued
The only language that is not subject to interpretation is mathematics. Our language was designed thousands of years ago, therefore it is inadequate and subject to interpretation. As long as there is a language that is subject to interpretation, there is going to be conflict. The purpose of this research is Ovidiu Hulubei’s attempt to describe the insufficiencies … Continued
It might be a performative lecture with deviational strategies to produce constant displacement & wistfulness of perspective and language – a poetic and human masquerade, not so different from concepts like the higher space or generator of singularities. Let us call it a séance. And, also, a reflection on the voices we use and hear in … Continued
ODD NIGHTS proudly presents an unusual event with Makunouchi Bento and Selfmademusic live-performing the music of Bodrog. Bodrog is a work in progress DIY no-budget almost-horror mokumentary set in the sinister village of Bodrogu Vechi (Old Bodrog). The movie follows a group of washed-out artists joining an art residency in Bodrogu Vechi, only to discover something hidden … Continued
ODD THEORY #9 About the Higher Space or, A Masquerade Adriana Gheorghe 19.9.2017 19:00 It might be a performative lecture with deviational strategies to produce constant displacement & wistfulness of perspective and language – a poetic and human masquerade, not so different from concepts like the higher space or generator of singularities. Let … Continued
ODD NIGHT #16 Makunouchi Bento x Selfmademusic The Music of Bodrog 16.9.2017 20:00 ODD NIGHTS proudly presents an unusual event with Makunouchi Bento and Selfmademusic live-performing the music of Bodrog. Bodrog is a work in progress DIY no-budget almost-horror mokumentary set in the sinister village of Bodrogu Vechi (Old Bodrog). The movie … Continued
Ovidiu Hulubei (born 1984, Romania), studied at the University of Art and Design, Cluj Napoca (RO), and currently lives and works in London. His works and performance were presented in a number of solo and group exhibitions in Europe, among them: Train the muscle not the movement, Placentia Arte 2016 (solo); The Ballad of Peckham Rye, London, UK (2015); Performance no. 1, Clapham Orangery, … Continued
Mental Arithmetics Ovidiu Hulubei 21.9. – 17.11.2017 The only language that is not subject to interpretation is mathematics. Our language was designed thousands of years ago, therefore it is inadequate and subject to interpretation. As long as there is a language that is subject to interpretation, there is going to be conflict. The purpose of this research … Continued
Camping Marina Albu 17-18.3.2017 18:00 – 13:00 (next day) We are camping for one night at ODD! Bring or don’t bring your own tent, neoprene, sleeping bag, blankets, supplies, water, candles, small portable stove, morning coffee, pjs or anything else you need for sleeping or the rituals that precede and follow it! If you … Continued
International curatorial residencies ARC Bucharest June – November 2017 ARC Bucharest is a research residency program designed for curators working and living outside Romania to explore the effervescent art scene in Bucharest. It aims to spark new opportunities and exciting exchanges both for artists based in Bucharest (and beyond in Romania) and arts professionals from … Continued
Post-humanist ecologies and commons are hotly debated in contemporary arts and philosophy. Free/Libre/Open Source software – from the GNU project and Linux to Wikipedia – could be considered the first tested practice of a working global commons. On top of that, it stands for an ecology that has left behind traditional notions of subject, authorship and property. What can be … Continued
ODD NGHT #15 _ PHIL MINTON _ FERAL CHOIR WORKSHOP 10, 11 & 12. 07. 2017 19-21 PERFORMANCE 12. 07. 2017 21:30 Location: Salonul de Proiecte Universul Printing House Building B, 1st floor 23-25 Ion Brezoianu We are delighted to kick off the new ODD NIGHTS series with a very special … Continued
We are delighted to kick off the new ODD NIGHTS series with a very special event – Phil Minton’s Feral Choir. The revered improviser has a spectacular career spanning over four decades, whose collaborations include Audrey Chen, Tom Cora, Radu Malfatti and Mike Westbrook and a vocal improv quintet, Five Men Who Sing, with Jaap … Continued
Artist Talk Nita Mocanu & Marius Stoica 5.7.2017 19:30 Our guests will speak about relevant projects related to their artistic interests, about their training and development to this day. Other topics addressed will be the motivation for and the ideas that animate their artistic projects, as well as the choice of a particular technique or … Continued
Nita Mocanu (born 1977) is a visual artist whose works are a combination of video art, video performance, text, photography. Her works are constructed around the way in which people take action in various situations (from small gestures to large-scale actions to doing nothing), being influenced by language, the perception of the self and the … Continued
The Interstitial Space Nita Mocanu & Marius Stoica Opening 1.7.2017 19:00 Exhibition 3. 7. – 15.9. 2017 The work tries to represent space taking into account the proximity of things, the way in which the subject is lost in the network/assemblage of objects and it is transformed in turn, together with the … Continued
Getting Closer Marina Albu invites artists, people interested in art or passers-by to take part in actions that make them be close to one another, that offer them attention and openness and close interaction. Sleeping and eating together, exercising and trying with each other, the games and the eye gazing, the offered and given advice, all … Continued
The Staring Game Marina Albu 23.6.2017 19:00 We invite you. To take part. We meet for two hours of closure. Of closure and game, of intimacy and total silence. In this sepulchral stillness, we gaze one to another, eye in eye, in couples. As one blinks, one is out of the game. From the outgoers … Continued
The work tries to represent space taking into account the proximity of things, the way in which the subject is lost in the network/assemblage of objects and it is transformed in turn, together with the network/assemblage it is contained in. Hence, the notion of privacy itself takes a new meaning: putting aside the privacy defined … Continued
ODD THEORY #8 _ Open Source as a test case of a post-humanist commons Florian Cramer & Underbelly 27.6.2017 19:30 Post-humanist ecologies and commons are hotly debated in contemporary arts and philosophy. Free/Libre/Open Source software – from the GNU project and Linux to Wikipedia – could be considered the first tested practice of a working global commons. On top of that, it stands for … Continued
We invite you. To take part. We meet for two hours of closure. Of closure and game, of intimacy and total silence. In this sepulchral stillness, we gaze one to another, eye in eye, in couples. As one blinks, one is out of the game. From the outgoers on the side new players duets arise. … Continued
There is an infinity of worming spillages at work within every single one of us—writes Adam Lovasz in the introduction to Mark Horvath’s Darkening Places—. Heterogeneity and homogeneity, far from contradicting one another actually compose a single chaosmotic series. In this chaosmotic series, or through a series of topologically-interacting stacked levels of reality, the traditional binary opposition between ‘public’ … Continued
ODD THEORY #7 _ Obfuscation aesthetics in contemporary fiction Germán Sierra 15.6.2017 19:30 There is an infinity of worming spillages at work within every single one of us—writes Adam Lovasz in the introduction to Mark Horvath’s Darkening Places—. Heterogeneity and homogeneity, far from contradicting one another actually compose a single chaosmotic series. In this … Continued
QUIET ODD #14 _ Holiday Story Haegue Yang & Makita 28.5.2017 20:00 This screening session is built around the themes in Feed your friends, the current project at ODD in which the four curators invited their friends to exhibit into a sort of extended living room, in the middle of a roaring city centre. Haegue Yang, Holiday … Continued
This screening session is built around the themes in Feed your friends, the current project at ODD in which the four curators invited their friends to exhibit into a sort of extended living room, in the middle of a roaring city centre. Haegue Yang, Holiday Story, 2007 (13:11 min, color, sound) Haegue Yang (b. … Continued
With the early onset of a postspectacle mood in Bucharest in the years when the National Dance Center was still in the building of the National Theater, dance and performance have been locally pushed out of their medium limitation. There is something of this attitude visible now, when dance and performance are carrying the theater’s … Continued
FloppyPoppyWidy MATTER is a conceptual, pluridisciplinary and evolving publishing project. Outside of predefined fields, a singular reflection is created in the junctions. FloppyPoppyWidy MATTER attempts to follow these lines of thought. Through an interrogation of imminence and the multitude, combination or chance, the project provokes encounters, allowing for new conceptual links. The connections of ideas are not controlled, different each … Continued
ODD is proud to host the launch of a new issue of Revista ARTA, its main publication, featuring a compelling collection of texts on the issue of hybridity, curated by the magazine’s online editor Cristina Bogdan.
smooth and even; without marked lumps or indentations without hills calm and without waves. not sloping having a broad level surface but little height or depth; shallow without heels or with very low heels having an arch that is lower than usual having small breasts lacking interest or emotion; dull and lifeless without energy; dispirited … Continued
Mélanie Borès (Clinamen) (born in the USA in 1987) studied medieval and comparative literature in Geneva. She then graduated from the Critical Curatorial Cybermedia Research Master program at HEAD, Geneva. From 2012 to 2014, she worked for PIMPA (Politiques et Initiatives Mémorielles et Pratiques Artistiques) with Pierre Hazan, funded by FNS. She integrated the Atelier Interdisciplinaire … Continued
Launch of FloppyPoppyWidy MATTER by éditions Clinamen + day party by PRDZ SNDSSTM + food by Chloé Bovet 19.5.2017 17:00 – 23:00 FloppyPoppyWidy MATTER is a conceptual, pluridisciplinary and evolving publishing project. Outside of predefined fields, a singular reflection is created in the junctions. FloppyPoppyWidy MATTER attempts to follow these lines of thought. Through an interrogation of imminence … Continued
Feed Your Friends A project by Roxane Bovet, Lucas Cantori, Yoan Mudry & Camilla Paolino Opening 18-20.5.17 Exhibition 22.5 – 23.6.2017 smooth and even; without marked lumps or indentations without hills calm and without waves. not sloping having a broad level surface but little height or depth; shallow without heels or with very low … Continued
If you wanna be toxic, you gotta get the toxic. The supreme toxic is rawly, anonymously and trans-logically working on the psyche through Romanian pop music of the ’70 or ’80, dub rounds, generated by the confetti of an eternally refreshed sensuous system. They will dislocate, propelling the idea of a spontaneous and hardcore interconnectivity, … Continued
Trippy Seeing / Is this how ecstasy was built von blaremberg 28.04 – 12.05.2017 Starting with images’ distribution principle from Mnemosyne Atlas (Aby Warburg) the postartist summarises a deposit of typographic images prepared in the ‘80s in order to fill the panels from the fabrics and schools with illustrations through which an (a)ddressable common sense … Continued
The Work Turbine lypkhan, val chimic, Ana UZURA, Morfolina 5.5.2017 20.00 If you wanna be toxic, you gotta get the toxic. The supreme toxic is rawly, anonymously and trans-logically working on the psyche through Romanian pop music of the ’70 or ’80, dub rounds, generated by the confetti of an eternally refreshed sensuous system. … Continued
Starting with images’ distribution principle from Mnemosyne Atlas (Aby Warburg) the postartist summarises a deposit of typographic images prepared in the ‘80s in order to fill the panels from the fabrics and schools with illustrations through which an (a)ddressable common sense of the exemplary-citizen has been educated: from the heavy Romanian industry accomplishments to sprays, … Continued
Second Artworld & ODD present POSTDANCE book launch Lecture by Mårten Spångberg Questions and interventions by Alina Popa 21.5.2017 17h – 19h With the early onset of a postspectacle mood in Bucharest in the years when the National Dance Center was still in the building of the National Theater, dance and performance have been locally … Continued
Mums & Sons George Enache 18 – 26.4.2017 Mums&Sons per-trans-inspects through portraiture/ family photography the nebulous connexions and the psychic, unconscious, general flux generated by this kind of problematic relationships. In this case, the photographic medium would like to become the captor of subjects auras’ invisible movements, sweeping away everything from the psychoanalytic fixation’s spectrum … Continued
Mums&Sons per-trans-inspects through portraiture/ family photography the nebulous connexions and the psychic, unconscious, general flux generated by this kind of problematic relationships. In this case, the photographic medium would like to become the captor of subjects auras’ invisible movements, sweeping away everything from the psychoanalytic fixation’s spectrum to affection. The ambient medium’s objectal layers offers us … Continued
QUIET ODD #13 _ Calodemonic madeleines Rabih Mroué & Vlad Cristea 9.4.2017 20:00 The second QUIET ODD session organized in collaboration with n.b.k. runs during bogdan lypkhan’s Calodemonic Explanations and questions lived memory, as well as the heritage of old regimes and traditions in the everyday of the contemporary youth. The films have an autobiographic character to … Continued
The second QUIET ODD session organized in collaboration with n.b.k. runs during bogdan lypkhan’s Calodemonic Explanations and questions lived memory, as well as the heritage of old regimes and traditions in the everyday of the contemporary youth. The films have an autobiographic character to their narrative, as well as a certain generational feel. Rabih Mroué, Face A / … Continued
Ustensil Ana Barbu Uzura 31.3. – 13.4.2017 Ana Barbu Uzura describes objects and abandoned junk, segments of some daily rituals mysteriously recalibrated through a breeze of decomposing beauty. The supreme sign: a papal sceptre with a thistle on top, announcing the emaciation of everything once existed. The ones belonging sometime to … Continued
Calodemonic Explanations Privately, reprived, de-prived Bogdan Lypkhan 31.3. – 12.5.2017 From state to private. From private to occulted. During communism, private life in Romania was enjoying a closeted state, being almost a tabu subject. A few books of sexual education, a few movies about high-aimed, socialist, cast and revolutionary love stories. … Continued
Claire Tolan _ SHUSH Choir 15.9.2017 workshop 18:30-20:30 (limited to 10 participants) public performance 20:30-21:00 part of Rokolectiv 2017 ASMR, Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, describes a tingling sensation in the scalp and the spine, a physiological response provoked by soft sounds, such as whispering, nail tapping, and hair brushing. In recent years, a massive … Continued
ODD THEORY #5 Systems Theory vs. Art 18.3.2017 Florin’s interests lay with discussing issues more closely related to art, so he proposed we read an extract of “The Work of Art and the Self-Reproduction of Art”, a 1985 article by systems theory thinker Niklas Luhmann. A famous book by Luhmann on the art world … Continued
Ana Barbu Uzura describes objects and abandoned junk, segments of some daily rituals mysteriously recalibrated through a breeze of decomposing beauty. The supreme sign: a papal sceptre with a thistle on top, announcing the emaciation of everything once existed. The ones belonging sometime to man: invested, used, left, objects which are still marked by human … Continued
From state to private. From private to occulted. During communism, private life in Romania was enjoying a closeted state, being almost a tabu subject. A few books of sexual education, a few movies about high-aimed, socialist, cast and revolutionary love stories. Life was somewhere else, in life. The turbulent fantasy replaced by confinement. On the … Continued
Marina Albu invites artists, people interested in art or passers-by to take part in actions that make them be close to one another, that offer them attention and openness and close interaction. Sleeping and eating together, exercising and trying with each other, the games and the eye gazing, the offered and given advice, all these introduce … Continued
ODD NIGHT #14 _ Their POP Majesties Dialogue + party-performance Morfolina feat. Vagenta 17.3.2017 20.00 Is there any pop-feminism? (we probe an authentically and non-resentful conceptualisation of a “becoming woman” through Romanian contemporary poetry: from Elena Vlădăreanu, Ruxandra Novac, Gabi Eftimie to Val Chimic — autistic, androgynous and asexual voices linked to the theorisations of Serres, … Continued
Is there any pop-feminism? (we probe an authentically and non-resentful conceptualisation of a “becoming woman” through Romanian contemporary poetry: from Elena Vlădăreanu, Ruxandra Novac, Gabi Eftimie to Val Chimic — autistic, androgynous and asexual voices linked to the theorisations of Serres, Harraway or Rosi Brandotti — who refuse even the etiquette of being a “subject”). Can … Continued
We are camping for one night at ODD! Bring or don’t bring your own tent, neoprene, sleeping bag, blankets, supplies, water, candles, small portable stove, morning coffee, pjs or anything else you need for sleeping or the rituals that precede and follow it! If you have a tent, best to bring it in case we … Continued
A reading room, an attempt to display a personal archive so that it is visible – usable -, a slight re-ordering of information, an immersion onto (mostly secret) gay life in the 90s… All photos by Petre Fall.
A country everyone wanted to escape. A generalized societal failure with an unbelievable media fervor, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. Cuponiada, Caritas, the miner movements, bribes worth hundreds of thousands of Deutsche Marks, facts and unveilings that held headlines for weeks on end, and an idle judicial system. Society as hoax, worth the country’s … Continued
The first video that will be screened at QUIET ODD as part of The NBK Series is Alejandro Cesarco’s Musings (2013, 15:35), which was co-produced by the n.b.k. Video-Forum. The work retells a series of anecdotes regarding premonitions, fate, dreams, and other types of messages that are the generative source for creative work. The selected stories also … Continued
ODD THEORY #4 THE SHEAF CONDITION 4.3.2017 14:00 – 17:00 Following the proposition by Ion D. during our first session in 2017, we read a complex & poetical text by mathematician-philosopher Fernando Zalamea on Wittgenstein’s Sheaves. It is recommended to read the text in advance, as it is structured in 2 parts … Continued
SAVAGED pINK A history of 90s gay media A project by Adrian Newell Păun, Adrian Schiop, Vlad Viski Curated by Cristina Bogdan Opening 28.2.2017 19.00 Exhibition 28.2 – 24.3.2017 part of LGBT History Month Using Adrian Newell Păun’s personal archive, the exhibition sheds light on different attempts to build a gay press in an … Continued
Using Adrian Newell Păun’s personal archive, the exhibition sheds light on different attempts to build a gay press in an era when homosexuality and “homosexual propaganda” were criminalized in the Penal Code. What were the main interests for gay people and how would they meet each other? What kind of public discourse developed around homosexuality? … Continued
ODD THEORY #3 _ Entombing Habit 18.2.2017 14:00 – 17:00 First session of the work group initiated by Cristina Bogdan and Mihai Pecingine, part of P R IV A T E L Y Text: Nicola Masciandaro, Come Cosa Che Cada: Habit and Cataclysm, or, Exploding Plasticity We want this to function as a prototype … Continued
QUIET ODD #12 _ Musings Alejandro Cesarco & Călin Man / reVoltaire with an introduction by n.b.k. Video Forum curator Silke Wittig 5.3.2017 19.00 The first video that will be screened at QUIET ODD as part of The NBK Series is Alejandro Cesarco’s Musings (2013, 15:35), which was co-produced by the n.b.k. Video-Forum. The … Continued
ENTER BANALITY Constantin Badea 14-24.2.2017 The opening of ODD’s annual program features a presentation of the unusual work of Constantin Badea. It functions as a prelude to a year-long unfolding of themes related to privacy and private life, tackling many of these from a very singular, almost idiosyncratic perspective. A self-taught artist living in … Continued
The opening of ODD’s annual program features a presentation of the unusual work of Constantin Badea. It functions as a prelude to a year-long unfolding of themes related to privacy and private life, tackling many of these from a very singular, almost idiosyncratic perspective. A self-taught artist living in a village in Argeș, Constantin dedicates … Continued
Improv night with broken word, solo soprano voice, a body in movement, non-verbal response to drone noise, and electronic synth. Foreground stare Middleground drops Background lack of curtains Foreground containers Middleground trees and blocks Background pink Reflective surfaces And blockage A narrow line of shallow And devastating air Gates and blinds Pins and straws Teaser … Continued
ODD NIGHT #13 _ Reply to all Katrina Damigos, Vivienne Griffin, Kaspars Groševs, Cian McConn 7.2.2017 20.00 Improv night with broken word, solo soprano voice, a body in movement, non-verbal response to drone noise, and electronic synth. Foreground stare Middleground drops Background lack of curtains Foreground containers Middleground trees and blocks Background pink Reflective surfaces … Continued
Peripheral feminisms Giulia Damiani 16 & 17. 9. 2015 18.30 – 20.30 National Dance Center | Centrul Național al Dansului This session will consider peripheral forms of feminism through Giulia’s research on the artist collective Le Nemesiache from Napoli, a nearly obliterated group which determined the cultural progress of the city between the 70s … Continued
#1 INSTALLATIONAL TERRITORIES Angels Miralda 5-7.8.2015 6-8pm Grădina Viitorului DAY 1 An Introduction to the Subject There’s a discrepancy of dates in the history of installation. In this session I will outline a problem with the usage of the word “installation” that begins to show the vague history and problematics of the word. I … Continued
P R I V A T E L Y In 2017, ODD makes its first attempt at a fully curated program. Exhibitions and performances, work groups and public debates – all gather under the banner of privacy, a term we set out to understand and re-signify. The proposal stems from the observation that contemporary … Continued
two years ODD 15.12.2016 19.30 No longer a cub, not yet a tiger. ODD turns 2 at the end of a year when it broke off its nomadic period and settled down in the old town. A year when it tried and tested many formats, worked with fresh local artists & curators, sparked the … Continued
This evening we look at projects that work with casting, rehearsals and improvisation as artistic strategies. Christian Jankowski, Casting Jesus, 2011, 60 minutes Using a talent show format, Christian Jankowski invites 13 professional actors to cast for the role of Jesus in a fictional production. A distinguished panel: Monseñor José Manuel del Rio Carrasco, Vatican Priest; … Continued
QUIET ODD #11 _ Casting Men Screenings: Casting Jesus, You Are Safe With Me, Art and Identity Politics in Bed Together Discussion moderated by Cristina Bogdan 11.12.2016 19.00 Czech Centre in Bucharest This evening we look at projects that work with casting, rehearsals and improvisation as artistic strategies. Christian Jankowski, Casting Jesus, 2011, … Continued
The disappearance of technology as camouflage in the ecosystem is the direction proposed by Nona Inescu in her work Where touch begins, we are. Veda Popovici leaves behind the idea of technology in its anthropological dimension and turns toward TV and the mechanisms through which it shapes human history in her work entitled The Anti-Memory … Continued
The Perils of iTunes Shuffle : the Digital and Actual Dichotomy of PostNorma Aaron McLaughlin 17.11.2016 19.30 This talk will analyze the experimental living and art project space PostNorma, showing ‘behind the scenes content’ of its raw reality in comparison to its aspirational digital facade. The space being devoid of basic living facilities such as electricity … Continued
Mihaela Drăgan (b. 1986) is an actress and playwright who lives and works in Bucharest. Her performances focus on the connection between theatre, Roma identity and social justice. In 2014, she founded Giuvlipen Theatre Company, together with other Roma actresses. She studied acting and collaborated over the years with Logos Theatre and Theatre for Few … Continued
The Disappearance of Technology Mihaela Drăgan, Nona Inescu, Veda Popovici Curator: Mircea Nicolae Organised by: Modulab Opening 12.11.2016 17.00 Exhibition 14.11 – 11.12. 2016 Mon-Fri 11-19 ODD hosts the third project in the Interactivity Series, an exhibition with 3 contemporary artists for which Modulab provided technical support and advice. … Continued
ODD hosts the third project in the Interactivity Series, an exhibition with 3 contemporary artists for which Modulab provided technical support and advice. The exhibition brings together three artistic positions about what technology is today and it also raises the question of its possible disappearance in the future. The first interpretation, proposed by Mihaela Drăgan, … Continued
The Return of Bas Jan Ader Short telepathic guide Lied ohne Worte. Found in a private photo album, the letter evokes a holiday rendez-vous on a melancholic tone. A gentleman writes to a married lady, recalling an image he would have liked to include in the album of the trip made in the old … Continued
ODD SPOT #2 _ Emilia Persu 19.10.2016 14.00 – 19.00 discussion from 19.00 onward A BITE OF GLASS or, painting using a “model”, be it a physical or a mental one. Any material support leads to mental movement and then to it being reproduced in shapes and forms which create an image. … Continued
The only contemporary Romanian artist of posthumous descent, embodied from the parliamentary spectres of the 19th C, von blaremberg, just like his master Eugen Sebastian Apostolache (from the Târgu Mureș sect), returns with an exercise in spiritism: The Return of Bas Jan Ader materializes shadows of objects ectoplasmically densified, collateral to an insignifiance du politique. Short … Continued
von blaremberg, aretinal artist, works with appropriation, objets trouvés, archives of images, anonymous photography, sound samples, cut-outs from photos or film which he re-edits in postphotographic image-sound landscapes. Video arts graduate, holds an MA from CESI (the Center of Excellency in Image Studies) with the research titled Photography of the new gaze (Neues Sehen) in the 1920s.
The Return of Bas Jan Ader von blaremberg 12.10 – 10.11.2016 The only contemporary Romanian artist of posthumous descent, embodied from the parliamentary spectres of the 19th C, von blaremberg, just like his master Eugen Sebastian Apostolache (from the Târgu Mureș sect), returns with an exercise in spiritism: The Return of Bas Jan Ader materializes shadows … Continued
EXPANDED SPACE 2016 / THE GREY AREA 12 – 30. 10. 2016 OPENING 12.10.2016 19:00 ODD Films by Florin Bobu, Simion Cernica, Grupul H.arta, Hans van Houwelingen, Vasile Leac Interventions in the public space by Dan Acostioaei, Mihai Balko, Radu Boeru, Elana Katz, Monotremu, Miklos Onucsan. The sixth edition of the Expanded Space project aims … Continued
ODD NIGHT #12 _ id m theft able 19.9.2016 19.00 id m theft able (born 2016 in cluj) is a queen, sting, and santana whose interdisciplinary and highly personal work seeks to explore the intersections between cats and vacuum cleaners and potatoes and stars while demonstrating a deep sense of guilt, an almost desperate yearning for love, a … Continued
ODD SPOT #1 _ Carmen Rasovszky 20.9.2016 14.00 – 22.00 Discussion from 19.00 onward Carmen Rasovsky (b. 1952), is a Romanian artist working both with film and costumes & set design. She has worked on numerous theatre projects and has exhibited her drawings & photographs, then her films, in local galleries since the 90s. Together … Continued
Coming out of the blue 15.9.2016 18.00 Are artists involved in riots? What did really happen in Paris? Is the fight compatible with the absence of risk? Do the CRS cry at night on their way home? Are we too fond of beer and heating? Are all the bosses of the CAC 40 doing … Continued
id m theft able (born 2016 in cluj) is a queen, sting, and santana whose interdisciplinary and highly personal work seeks to explore the intersections between cats and vacuum cleaners and potatoes and stars while demonstrating a deep sense of guilt, an almost desperate yearning for love, a rich understanding of metaphysics, and a complete disregard for … Continued
Working with VR & POV Maria Guță lecture/ presentation Part of Rokolectiv x SHAPE 16.9.2016 19.00 I have always been attracted by identity related topics and have often tried to explore in my work our capacity of building alter egos, walking the line between role playing and virtual identities. Self-representation has been a recurring theme … Continued
Are artists involved in riots? What did really happen in Paris? Is the fight compatible with the absence of risk? Do the CRS cry at night on their way home? Are we too fond of beer and heating? Are all the bosses of the CAC 40 doing well? Can a robot inhale tear gas? What … Continued
How To Become A Lesbian Poetry workshop by sabrina soyer 10.9.2016 18.00 “I guess I wanted to write this introduction in English because it reminds me of a moment in my life where realising I was a deep dyke coincided with the fact that I became an English addict (…) I recently discovered Inferno and … Continued
“I guess I wanted to write this introduction in English because it reminds me of a moment in my life where realising I was a deep dyke coincided with the fact that I became an English addict (…) I recently discovered Inferno and it was heaven. I’ve never read Dante, but instead Inferno – I … Continued
ODD NIGHT #11 _ GLASS NEST 6.9.2016 19.00 Manasia Hub Who told you mixing water and electronics was a bad idea? In a visually unsettling performance, Berlin based sound artist Régis Lemberthe builds up hybrid installations through which water, ice and steam generate sounds quickly amplified and distorted into synthetic drone tunes, endlessly oscillating … Continued
Who told you mixing water and electronics was a bad idea? In a visually unsettling performance, Berlin based sound artist Régis Lemberthe builds up hybrid installations through which water, ice and steam generate sounds quickly amplified and distorted into synthetic drone tunes, endlessly oscillating between subtle ambiences and dense walls of noise. The project has … Continued
Délie-moi 3.9.2016 18.00 Jérémie Gaulin and sabrina soyer invite you to a cross-presentation of their works under the concept of Pharmakon. Pharmakon is a Greek word meaning both poison and remedy. It is used by Derrida in “Plato’s pharmacy” to highlight a relationship between drugs and writing, how the substance of writing leads us to an … Continued
Give concrete a try Jérémie Gaulin & sabrina soyer 29.8 – 10.10.2016 Jérémie Gaulin and sabrina soyer met each other in Bordeaux, a city also know as an ecological niche for mad travelers. As natives of this city, they became themselves travel addicts. The residency they are doing in ODD is their first collaboration. … Continued
Jérémie Gaulin and sabrina soyer invite you to a cross-presentation of their works under the concept of Pharmakon. Pharmakon is a Greek word meaning both poison and remedy. It is used by Derrida in “Plato’s pharmacy” to highlight a relationship between drugs and writing, how the substance of writing leads us to an experience of the simulacrum and … Continued
Jérémie Gaulin and sabrina soyer met in Bordeaux, a city also know as an ecological niche for mad travellers. As natives of this city, they became themselves travel addicts. The residency they are doing in ODD is their first collaboration. For a full month they will work together, doing walks in suburban parts of Bucarest … Continued
From the end of July to the beginning of September, we roam the streets of Bucharest to find out straight from its residents what the city is about. A bit against the recent trend of showing it as a gloomy and hopeless place in art cinema made for Cannes, we want to show the city … Continued
A huge football field surrounded by steel fences. Blue tin tribunes, ragged by the years. Sunburn grass. This setting has been chosen by the intergalactic council as meeting point for the congress taking place in 2021 in Bucharest. On the other side of the fence, some tin statues which sometimes act as swings – … Continued
A huge football field surrounded by steel fences. Blue tin tribunes, ragged by the years. Sunburn grass. This setting has been chosen by the intergalactic council as meeting point for the congress taking place in 2021 in Bucharest. On the other side of the fence, some tin statues which sometimes act as swings – or … Continued
Hot Streets Launch of the film 10.10.2016 20.00 “Hot Streets” is the project of a trip in time, both personal and objective, through the streets of Bucharest in the summer, a filmed piece which includes performance, interviews, monologues, storytelling and actions of the city’s various characters. ”Hot Streets” was conceived as a hommage to Bucharest, undescribable … Continued
Born and bred in Bucharest, educated in Paris, hardened in London. Cristina Bogdan is online editor of Revista ARTA and runs ODD since 2014. She lectured in Art Theory in London between 2012-2015 and is currently a PhD student in Aesthetics at the Sorbonne. Mihnea Mihalache-Fiastru worked in journalism and is the creator of the … Continued
Hot Streets Cristina Bogdan + Mihnea Mihalache-Fiastru 25.7 – 30.9.2016 The project is based on the complementary approaches of curator Cristina Bogdan, who since 2014 leads ODD, and Mihnea Mihalache-Fiastru, author of the web series of docu-fiction and urban storytelling Şuşanele. Together, we want to lay the foundations of artistic and educational initiatives outside … Continued
The project is based on the complementary approaches of curator Cristina Bogdan, who since 2014 leads ODD, and Mihnea Mihalache-Fiastru, author of the web series of docu-fiction and urban storytelling Şuşanele. Together, they want to lay the foundations of artistic and educational initiatives outside the limited space of the gallery through which to test live, in urban … Continued
The sixth edition of Expanded Space, curated by Cristina Bogdan and Judit Balko, aims to explore the grey area. Through this theme we intended to question the methods of separating the public space from the private one, concerning both its physical dimension and the one pertaining to the public sphere; to explore the limits of gestures, actions and discourses in the public space; to inquire the process of establishing and legitimizing the frames of public interventions, as well as the extent to which these allow the participation of different groups and individuals. The theme intends to provoke a series of acute responses to the specificity of Romanian public space, which is now in a moment of tension and formation.
To accompany the intervention on the opening night, of which you can see some images at the bottom of the page, the artist stages an exhibition comprising new video works, accompanied by an installation made up of elements accumulated during the 3 weeks of residency. The stakes: using precarious means of production; the kindness of … Continued
Simion Cernica was born in Bucharest, Romania. In 2011 he re-located to Los Angeles, where he currently lives and works. As an artist who purposely avoided the conservative and stagnant reality of attending art school in Romania in the 90s, he created his own personal method of studying contemporary art and the related phenomena. Initially … Continued
Exchange Agent Simion Cernica 21. 6 – 30. 8. 2016 The artist as agent of cultural exchange. The artist as agent of social change. The artist as mediator of a transaction in the public or private space. The artist as freelancer forced to survive financially. The artist as producer of plus-value (with or without … Continued
Iulian Mereuță (b. 1943, Bălți – d. 2015, Paris), was a visual artist who experimented with almost all major forms of contemporary art: conceptual art, performance, installation, photography, experimental film, video. Between 1957 and 1960 he studies in Galați, with Lola Schmieter-Roth, André Derrain’s former student. He continues to attend, between 1960 and 1966, the Art … Continued
The artist as agent of cultural exchange. The artist as agent of social change. The artist as mediator of a transaction in the public or private space. The artist as freelancer forced to survive financially. The artist as producer of plus-value (with or without commercial success). The artist from whom one expects more than the … Continued
Between/beyond the interstices of psychic pain (working at paintings made from randomly founded thread; never accepting a new spool – as a way of protecting the feeling of constant freshness?), they were the (almost involuntary) instigators(–patients) of the 50-70s; utterly suicidal, swimming in the negative’s illusion, but swimming/ surviving – on a crazy utilitarian love! Their ESFORTZ-gadget – that urgency of perseverance. On a … Continued
Screening of films about the clinic of La Borde, followed by a debate led by Cosmina Moroșan. Ce gamin, là (Fernand Deligny, 1976) Over 20, owning a diploma that would have made him a teacher of philosophy, Fernand Deligny seemed very preoccupied with the idea that he must become a writer. For this great figure … Continued
Utilitarian readings #3 Bertold Brecht’s aesthetics / Estetica lui Bertold Brecht Sessions led by / Sesiuni conduse de Florin Poenaru 13 & 27.6. 2016 18.30 Session 1, 13 June: The fragments selected from Brecht bring forth 2 important dimensions of his art and political engagement: on the one hand, the critique of … Continued
Screening of the film Did You Used to be R.D. Laing ? The life and philosophy of psychiatrist Dr R.D. Laing, followed by a debate led by Cristina Bogdan. Frequently drawing on stories from his own life, and from his patients’ experiences, Laing presents his insight into the art of therapy, the lies we tell each other … Continued
The social and cultural revolutions of the 1960s were spearheaded by the charismatic, guru-like figure of Glasgow born psychiatrist R.D. Laing. In his now classic text The Politics of Experience (1967) Laing argued that normality entailed adjusting ourselves to the mystification of an alienating and depersonalizing world. Thus, those society labels as ‘mentally ill’ are … Continued
KNOTS #7 Prison for 1 Presentation of the work of Iulian Mereuță Decebal Scriba and Magda Radu 23.6.2016 19.00 Iulian Mereuță (b. 1943, Bălți – d. 2015, Paris), was a visual artist who experimented with almost all major forms of contemporary art: conceptual art, performance, installation, photography, experimental film, video. Between 1957 and 1960 he … Continued
KNOTS #6 ESFORTZ, conference-performance Cosmina Moroșan 16.6.2016 19.00 Between/beyond the interstices of psychic pain (working at paintings made from randomly founded thread; never accepting a new spool – as a way of protecting the feeling of constant freshness?), they were the (almost involuntary) instigators(–patients) of the ’50—’70s; utterly suicidal, swimming in the … Continued
KNOTS #5 Screening of films about the clinic of La Borde, followed by a debate led by Cosmina Moroșan 15.6.2016 19.00 Ce gamin, là (Fernand Deligny, 1976) Over 20, owning a diploma that would have made him a teacher of philosophy, Fernand Deligny seemed very preoccupied with the idea that he must become … Continued
KNOTS #4 Screening of Did You Used to Be R.D. Laing? Tom Shandel 7.6.2016 19.00 Screening of the film Did You Used to be R.D. Laing ? The life and philosophy of psychiatrist Dr R.D. Laing, followed by a debate led by Cristina Bogdan. Frequently drawing on stories from his own life, … Continued
KNOTS #3 All Divided Selves Screening of the film by Luke Fowler 6.6.2016 19.00 [via LUX | artists’ moving image] The social and cultural revolutions of the 1960s were spearheaded by the charismatic, guru-like figure of Glasgow born psychiatrist R.D. Laing. In his now classic text “The Politics of Experience” (1967) Laing argued that normality entailed … Continued
KNOTS #2 ‘R.D. Laing: Psychiatry, Experience, Politics’ 29.5.2016 19.00 Talk by Vlad Morariu on R.D. Laing’s philosophical-phenomenological influences, his clinical-political practice, and his collaboration with experimental film maker Peter Robinson. This will be followed by a screening of Asylum (1972, dir. Peter Robinson). Ronald David Laing trained and qualified as a doctor, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He was … Continued
KNOTS #1 Education as Struggle, Struggle as Education A talk by Jakob Jakobsen Image source: Jakob Jakobsen’s Antihistory | Antiuniversity research project 28.5.2016 19.00 Jakob Jakobsen will talk about self-organised education in the past and in the present, focusing on the London Anti-University (1968) & the Copenhagen Free University (2001-2007). He is also interested in … Continued
Talk by Vlad Morariu on R.D. Laing’s philosophical-phenomenological influences, his clinical-political practice, and his collaboration with experimental film maker Peter Robinson. This will be followed by a screening of Asylum (1972, dir. Peter Robinson). Ronald David Laing trained and qualified as a doctor, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He was a gifted musician having been elected a Licentiate of the Royal Academy … Continued
Jakob Jakobsen will talk about self-organised education in the past and in the present, focusing on the London Anti-University (1968) & the Copenhagen Free University (2001-2007). He is also interested in learning about self organised educational initiatives, past and present, which have developed in Romania. The Antiuniversity of London was a shortlived and intense experiment … Continued
Knots (1970) is, perhaps, British psychiatrist R.D. Laing’s most mysterious and unorthodox written work. Whereas previous texts such as The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness (1960), The Self and Others (1961), and The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise (1967) proposed an articulated phenomenological and clinical understanding of psychosis and schizophrenia as … Continued
Here are some links to various knowledge tools connected to the topics developed in this project: schizo-culture, the counter-cultural movements of the 60s and 70s, the Eastern (specifically Romanian) scene in the same period, alternative and radical education, radical artistic initiatives. MayDay Rooms The Antihistory project Big Flame East London … Continued
Jakob Jakobsen is a visual artist and political organiser. He ran the Copenhagen Free University (2001-07), cofounded the artist-run TV station tv-tv in 2004, and was involved in setting up the artist’s union UKK in Copenhagen in 2002. With a main interest in education, his practice comes out of struggles of autonomy and self-organisation. He … Continued
Friday 27 May 19.00 Opening Saturday 28 May 19.00 ‘Education as Struggle, Struggle as Education’, talk by Jakob Jakobsen, followed by discussion Sunday 29 May 19.00 ‘R.D. Laing: Psychiatry, Experience, Politics’, talk by Vlad Morariu, followed by a screening of Asylum (1972, dir. Peter Robinson) Monday 6 June 19.00 Screening of All Divided Selves (2011, dir. Luke … Continued
KNOTS (Schizo)Culture, (Counter)Education, (Anti)Psychiatry 27.5 – 26.6. 2016 ‘Knots’ (1970) is, perhaps, British psychiatrist R.D. Laing’s most mysterious and unorthodox written work. Whereas previous texts such as ‘The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness’ (1960), ‘The Self and Others’ (1961), and ‘The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise’ (1967) … Continued
Utilitarian readings #2 selection from Jaques Rancière, Aisthesis. Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art, 2013 Session led by / sesiune condusă de Marius-Bogdan Tudor 25.5.2016 18.00 Please read and download here the second to last “scene” of the 14 which make up Aisthesis: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art by Jacques … Continued
QUIET ODD #10 _ Summer in the city 15.5.2016 19.00 We welcome the heat this year with 2 features from hot chaotic cities. Ștrăndooț (‘little urban pool’) is a collection of short films shot last summer by Mihnea Mihalache-Fiastru with Mircea Topoleanu & the Black Horse Mansion crew in Bucharest’s main public pools. It … Continued
Political room in film Screening & talk with Asli Özarslan 10.5.2016 19.30 What does it mean to create a political room in a film without a political topic? Film is visual art and each film has its own rules regarding visuality, dramatic and editing. Jean-Luc Godard said: Do not make political films, but films … Continued
We welcome the heat this year with 2 features from hot chaotic cities. Ștrăndooț (‘little urban pool’) is a collection of short films shot last summer by Mihnea Mihalache-Fiastru with Mircea Topoleanu & the Black Horse Mansion crew in Bucharest’s main public pools. It reveals the ways in which the locals spend their leisure time and move … Continued
Video & installation: Adelina Ivan. Image credits: Vlad Brăteanu.
An Austrio-Belgian-Serbian psychedelic caravan is coming to town! Prepare to have some colourful visions courtesy of the power trio of Bart de Paepe (Sloow Tapes new age guru), Uli Rois (the Austrian banjo wizard of Bird People fame) and Ignace de Bruyn (who runs the most out-there looking tape label), joined by two other friends … Continued
Island 36 Asli Özarslan 28.4.2016 19.00 What is the process of making a documentary film? Especially when you try to get in a society which is hard to enter? Should that be visible in a film? And how can you integrate this problem in your film? Let´s talk about this topic after we watched … Continued
Asli Özarslan (born 19.07.1986 in Berlin) studied theater and media studies at University Bayreuth, as well as philosophy and sociology at Université Sorbonne IV in Paris. This was followed by editorial activities for public television – ZDF and ARD. She makes documentaries and video art as well. Since 2012 she is studying documentary film at … Continued
Political Room Asli Özarslan 16. 4 – 15.5. 2016 I am here together with my Romanian editor Ana Branea to edit my diploma film for my film school in Germany. The film is about the youngest female mayor in East Turkey in a town where mostly Kurdish people live. Her goal is to rebuild … Continued
ODD NIGHT #10 Nema Tog Podruma’s Karawaan Glavobolje 3.5.2016 20.00 An Austrio-Belgian-Serbian psychedelic caravan is coming to town! Prepare to have some colorful visions courtesy of the power trio of Bart de Paepe (Sloow Tapes new age guru), Uli Rois (the Austrian banjo wizzard of Bird People fame) and Ignace de Bruyn ( who … Continued
Weekendul Galeriilor / Galleries Weekend #3 23-24.4.2016 12.00 – 21.00 The exhibition Atena adjusting her sandal will be open to the public both Saturday and Sunday from midday to 9pm. In the back room, ODD together with P U N C H and Revista ARTA are putting together a contemporary art pop-up bookshop. … Continued
*The Lace Adelina Ivan’s installation at ODD delimits an immersive démarche into a universe of feminine dreams, school uniforms and girlhood pathos. Though her girl characters are trapped in a world on the verge of collapse, entrapped in social restrictions, they nonetheless try to put aside their fair share of triumph. One of them … Continued
Caustic glamour #1 Passion and compassion 21.4.2016 19.00 An open and analytical dialogue about passion and compassion in contemporary poetic language, and about the type of emotion such texts carry. Is the emotional a new way of being tested in poetry? On the risks that a poet assumes when they choose to approach a … Continued
As we start a new trip straight in the historical town of Bucharest, we invite you all to cin-cin for hope and perseveration. Under this pretext, we want to thank all our friends for their generous moral and financial support during our nomad times, so join us for a sangria made with love and some … Continued
As part of Like CNDB, ODD proposes a meeting with French artist Jimmy Robert, who will screen and discuss a 30-minute documentation of A clean line that starts from the shoulder, his latest solo show at M Museum, Leuven, followed by a Q & A session open to the public. For this project, Robert explores the different … Continued
ODD NIGHT #22 _ Wilted Woman _ Admina Control Club 6.7.2018 23:00 For our first collaboration with Control Club, we’re bringing two mighty techno goddesses to share their gloomy dancefloor experiments. _ QUIET ODD #17_Video Battle II Kinema Ikon 6.7.18 18.30 – 20.30 The second session of Video Battle at … Continued
ODD NIGHT # 9 Discombobulatrix *live* _ Amber Amber *dj set* 15.4.2016 20.00 As we start a new trip straight in the historical town of Bucharest, we invite you all to cin-cin for hope and perseveration. Under this pretext, we want to thank all our friends for their generous moral and financial support during our … Continued
Adelina Ivan’s installation at ODD delimits an immersive démarche into a universe of feminine dreams, school uniforms and girlhood pathos. Though her girl characters are trapped in a world on the verge of collapse and social restrictions they nonetheless try to put aside their fair share of triumph. One of them shows an insight into … Continued
Utilitarian readings #1 David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1989 Sessions led by / sesiuni conduse de Ștefan Guga 27.4 & 11.5.2016 18.00 The introductory session of our Leftist theory reading group addresses the notion of postmodernity, as it is discussed by David Harvey in his seminal book The Condition of Postmodernity … Continued
Adelina Ivan is a visual artist who works with light and memory through textiles, photography, installation and video. In her work she explores the overlap of time, space and memory, their winding and intimate interactions. Just like the fabrics used in her works, time space and memory fold and unfold into sleek silky surfaces and … Continued
Atena adjusting her sandal Adelina Ivan curated by Georgiana Cojocaru Opening 12.4.2016 19.00 Exhibition 14.4 – 8.5.2016 Opening hours Mon-Fri 11.00 – 19.00 Adelina Ivan’s installation at ODD delimits an immersive démarche into a universe of feminine dreams, school uniforms and girlhood pathos. Though her girl characters are trapped in a world on the … Continued
Monthly one-day displays and presentations of works from artists whose studios are located above our exhibition space in 13, Șelari St. Selection by Cristina Bogdan. The purpose of these presentations is to bridge the gap between generations of artists working in different paradigms, to question the relevance of specific local practices and understand their reception … Continued
Caustic glamour. Detective-style readings from contemporary Romanian poets, led by selected guests. The meetings follow potential connections between various poetical style from the past 20 years and visual art practices. Readings from poets with a conceptual démarche, whose texts feature clear intersections with the visual arts. Framework of dialogue and debate, with the aim of … Continued
Critical stake #1 _ Pure modernism 12.04.2016 18.00 26.04.2016 18.00 To understand what is at stake in contemporary art, in aesthetic as well as political terms, one must begin with the theories put forward by the pope of modernism, Clement Greenberg. His seminal book Art and Culture (1961) should be read in its … Continued
Utilitarian readings. Reading group focusing on themes relevant for the field of cultural production from the Leftist theoretical body. Sessions are moderated by a guest, and rely on group discussion of classical texts from various directions of this body of works, set against the backdrop of contemporary artistic production. The reading group aims to reconnect … Continued
QUIET ODD #9 _ A clean line Part of Like CNDB 14.4.2016 19.30 CNDB Bucharest As part of Like CNDB, ODD proposes a meeting with French artist Jimmy Robert, who will screen and discuss a 30-minute documentation of “A clean line that starts from the shoulder”, his latest solo show at M Museum, Leuven, … Continued
QUIET ODD #8 _ Beside the Bright Future 21.02.2016 17.00 Czech Centre In connection to Tatiana Fiodorova’s exhibition When a book becomes a message, part of the Future Museum program launched by the Czech Centre in Bucharest, ODD invites cultural critic Vasile Ernu to propose a screening revealing to the public, aspects of the … Continued
In connection to Tatiana Fiodorova’s exhibition When a book becomes a message, part of the Future Museum program launched by the Czech Centre in Bucharest, ODD invites cultural critic Vasile Ernu to propose a screening revealing to the public, aspects of the Soviet underground in the 80s and 90s. The 80s is home to the last … Continued
Ideally, we are someone new every second – but sometimes just being new every year is the best we can do. Not to forget, first attempt is never successful for Libras. In 2015, we called up on our international friends to visit us as residents. In 2016, we focused on the local scene. ODD makes … Continued
If 2015 was a first year of experiment, working with foreign guests and establishing connections to the local scene, in 2016 the focus shifts towards encouraging Romanian artists to work through their practice and propose interventions in the new space, a typical gallery one, in which the function and workings of art are questioned. The … Continued
The Romanian context is particularly interesting for someone questioning the role of education nowadays. Traditional institutions are well overwhelmed by contemporary exigencies, grassroots initiatives spring at every pace even though only very few people acknowledge them, there is a desire to align with a dreamed “Western world”, yet at the same time the most extreme … Continued
one year ODD 18.12.2015 20.00 Manasia Hub 21.00 Diana Miron + Bogdana Dima + Laurențiu Coțac (live) 22.30 Plurabelle (live) 00.00 Amber Amber (DJ set) + RMN (visuals) Exactly 1 year ago, ODD landed on the Bucharest art scene. With a sustained program of process-based artistic residencies and series of social gatherings, ODD became … Continued
ODD and the Czech Centre in Bucharest are happy to present a QUIET ODD session in which we reveal our love for the future now. Program as follows: 16.30 Doors open 17.00 Premiere of The Green Hell is the New Heaven, 28min, 2012, a film by Ștefan Tiron and Mihai Sălăjan 17.30 Discussion with Ștefan Tiron, Mihai … Continued
QUIET ODD #7 Green Hell / Creeping Garden Czech Centre in Bucharest 13.12.2015 17.00 ODD and the Czech Centre in Bucharest are happy to present a QUIET ODD session in which we reveal our love for the future now. Program as follows: 16.30 Doors open 17.00 Premiere of The Green Hell is the … Continued
On Nov 18th, Ariel held a presentation of his project at tranzit.ro. It featured many unexpected links and travels through various languages, surfaces and depths, including collective readings, translations and misunderstandings. Photo credits Adi Păun / ROQ DOC.
Bosfor Dardanele Origin Marea Neagara Minoan eruption Biserica Ortodoxa Imperiul Otoman Imperiul Austriac Nicolae Ceausescu Istoria Uniunii Europene Alfabetul fenician Evrei Alfabetul grec Istoria Crestinismului Limba latina Romania Mare Pannotia Stingerea Omul de Neandertal Chalcolithic Traci Cultura si civilizatia dacica Bucuresti Marea Neagara Paleozoic Orogeny Carpatica Carpatii Meridionali Rodinia Delta Dunarii Black Sea Gumelnita-Karanovo Cucuteni-Tripilian … Continued
The Fountainhead is the iconic filmic representation of the modernist utopia, which brings together innovation, genius, capital – and architecture. The Ayn Rand story sets the tone for future representations of the American dream – inspired by and immediately overcoming European desire. The figure of the visionary architect, whose creation is discussed yet misunderstood in … Continued
Between 21.10 – 1.11, Cristina Bogdan proposes an intervention as part of Elena Cologni’s residency at Impington College related to the 75th anniversary of the only British building by Gropius.
Ariel Cusnir (b. 1981 Buenos Aires) studied art at the ENBA Pueyrredon in Buenos Aires and then followed different studio workshops led by Pablo Siquier, Ernesto Ballesteros and Leopoldo Estol. He holds a grant from the Center of Artistic Investigation created by Roberto Jacoby. His solo exhibitions were “Un Restaurante” (a restaurant), Oscar Cruz gallery. … Continued
Atlas Ariel Cusnir 22.10 – 20.11.2015 ODD + tranzit.ro My work involves different formats such as watercolor, painting, writing and video, the axis from which begins to develop is the watercolor, and since 2012 have been working on what I consider my best illustrated, large index of topics on the relationship between civilization and water … Continued
On War is a film by French director Bertrand Bonello, about whose work I have previously written under the tag New French Extremity. This clip is an ambiguous representation of contemporary methods of physical and mental liberation – ambiguous because it both refers to and criticizes the 60s obsession with awakening. After decades of wild … Continued
In the abstract space of the theatre, an acting company plays out the caricatured roles of those involved in formal education. It is interesting to observe now how the previously emphasized spaces of modernist architecture have remained ingrained in their bodily movements. Oppression occurs when the mind can no longer be set free by the … Continued
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZJWhSfXTWE After the playground and the corridors, the classroom is the other important space of formal education. This cinematic essay by a former teacher uses the aesthetics of films about 19th C closed houses (brothels) to suggest the claustrophobic and intense relationships that develop between teacher and students, students and students, within the set medium … Continued
Educational architecture is indeed mostly of modernist influence. Regular schools all over the Western world display geometric assemblages, large spaces where students can be observed, and rooms & corridors which shape their movements. Architecture is the first element of bodily standardisation – and thus the first step towards coercion. This clip shows a dramatic moment … Continued
Education between Modernist Walls An intervention by Cristina Bogdan, as part of Elena Cologni’s residency at Impington College 21.10 – 1.11.2015 Impington, UK The research is conducted as part of Elena Cologni’s residency at Impington College to contribute to the 75th anniversary of the only British building by Gropius, adopting an ‘art as interface … Continued
My work involves different formats such as watercolor, painting, writing and video, the axis from which begins to develop is the watercolor, and since 2012 have been working on what I consider my best illustrated, large index of topics on the relationship between civilization and water on the one hand, and the importance of the … Continued
Hidden in the mountains of Western North Carolina, Black Mountain College (1933–1957) was an influential experiment in education that inspired and shaped twentieth century American art. Created as an experiment of “education in a democracy,” the central idea was that the creative arts and practical responsibilities are equal in importance to the development of the … Continued
QUIET ODD #6 Fully Awake: Black Mountain College 18.10.2015 18.00 Czech Centre, Bucharest Hidden in the mountains of Western North Carolina, Black Mountain College (1933–1957) was an influential experiment in education that inspired and shaped twentieth century American art. Created as an experiment of “education in a democracy,” the central idea was that the creative … Continued
Mise en scène | Paper Room Karima Klasen and Michael Koch Curated by Denise Parizek 8.10.2015 18.00 ArtHalle (part of Galeria Tipografia) The project was intended as an installation in the former ODD space, which functioned at the threshold of private and public, thanks to its residency program. The Paper Room would be a new … Continued
Pinching the Earth, This Measuring Touch Giulia Damiani & Theodore Ereira-Guyer 27.9.2015 ALERT studio ODD and ALERT studio are proud to present Pinching the Earth, This Measuring Touch, an exhibition and a book featuring new works by artist Theodore Ereira-Guyer and writer Giulia Damiani. The title talks of the reflection on the notion of … Continued
Between 24.9 – 10.11, selected participants will benefit from 3 workshops to enhance their skills in processing.
Bucharest // Black Sea // Brasov // Magura // Mosorel // September 2015
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DAY 1 We will discuss if and how feminist practices from the past resonate with the present societal conditions and intellectual positions. Le Nemesiache’s peculiar artistic production will engender conversations on media such as poetry, cinema and performance; their separatist manifestos will interrogate us on the potential of marginality that wants to be such. What … Continued
This week’s QUIET ODD is organized by residents Abraham Krtizman and Angels Miralda. Films have been chosen that reflect on the subject of the residency. Looking at contemporary modes of myth making and creating the timeless through a contemporary lens, each film responds to different social codes, geopolitical changes, and cultural references. ESGS-272, by Swiss … Continued
Giulia Damiani is an award-winning writer and editor based in London whose practice investigates the peripheries of culture and the arts. She is regularly published in art and cultural magazines such as E.R.O.S Journal and Art Selector. In the last two years she contributed as writer and editor to 3 published books: As is the … Continued
What Weight Giulia Damiani and Theodore Ereira Guyer 27.8 – 1.10.2015 ODD & ALERT studio Melancholy. Weighty displaced beings. The weight of fat-free yogurt in schizophrenic times and the weight of pneuma, the human soul that existed in air for pre-Socratic Greeks. Lightness as visual abstraction or the flight of mythological heroes to leave … Continued
QUIET ODD #5 MNYITGHOHLOTGY 30.8.2015 19.00 This week’s QUIET ODD is organized by residents Abraham Krtizman and Angels Miralda. Films have been chosen that reflect on the subject of the residency. Looking at contemporary modes of myth making and creating the timeless through a contemporary lens, each film responds to different social codes, geopolitical … Continued
Trip to the North Golden Retriever . Abraham Kritzman, Angels Miralda, Marlene Steyn What makes a myth? Repetition Interpretation Cyclical time Episodic Introduction Images flashed past, waters overflew in numerous directions, and as if we had experienced the fall of Babel, we were dispersed throughout the world. Memory was erased in the most violent of … Continued
His Sprinkled Blood Served To Fructify Three Golden Apples Abraham Kritzman, Angels Miralda, Marlene Steyn ODD & Atelier 35 Opening 1.9.2015 19.00 Exhibition 2-12.9.2015 ODD and Atelier 35 are pleased to present a final exhibition to conclude a month-long residency with Abraham Kritzman, Angels Miralda, and Marlene Steyn at ODD organized by Cristina Bogdan. The subject … Continued
ODD and ALERT studio are proud to present Pinching the Earth, This Measuring Touch, an exhibition and a book featuring new works by artist Theodore Ereira-Guyer and writer Giulia Damiani. The title talks of the reflection on the notion of weight carried out in the one month residency in Bucharest titled What Weight. This subject has been chosen … Continued
ODD and Atelier 35 are pleased to present a final exhibition to conclude a month-long residency with Abraham Kritzman, Angels Miralda, and Marlene Steyn at ODD organized by Cristina Bogdan. The subject of research relates to the study and function of mythology in an imaginary contemporary society. Using the term mythology loosely and separately from its … Continued
When everyone has drowned in the sand, come be swept away by a fresh breeze of sound in our cool concrete garden. Logique Floue is a newly formed experimental music label based in Lyon with a penchant for DIY aesthetics and obsolete formats. Label co-founder Adrien Silvestre will be performing under his Double Sesame moniker. He will … Continued
In 1990, the world was offered a visual intro to the drag queen underground scene of the late ’80s – on how does a Drag Ball in Harlem, NY look like, and what that new dance called “vogueing” is – with the documentary Paris is burning by Jennie Livinston, winner of many prizes at International gay film … Continued
DAY 1 An Introduction to the Subject There’s a discrepancy of dates in the history of installation. In this session I will outline a problem with the usage of the word “installation” that begins to show the vague history and problematics of the word. I will introduce the notion of an undefined contemporary usage and … Continued
ODD NIGHT # 8 Double Sesame & Discombobulatrix *live* Pali Pali & Amber Amber *cassette-tape DJ set* 15.8.2015 22.00 When everyone has drowned in the sand, come be swept away by a fresh breeze of sound in our cool concrete garden. Logique Floue is a newly formed experimental music label based in Lyon with … Continued
QUIET ODD #4 ROQ DOQ presents PARIS IS BURNING 9.8.2014 19.00 In 1990, the world was offered a visual intro to the drag queen underground scene of the late ’80s – on how does a Drag Ball in Harlem, NY look like, and what that new dance called “vogueing” is – with the documentary Paris … Continued
Cristina Bogdan is this year’s winner of the Gabriela Tudor Foundation grant for young cultural managers.
I found this title months ago when I was Google searching for popular myths and Romanian folklore. I was attracted to this sentence, it conjured images both misty and dusty, rubble and the confounding of matter and space. And don’t we have apocalyptic tales of our own? As if myth-making were a thing of the … Continued
UNIVERSITY: Dogma 2005: A Prison without Walls Workshop with Rogério Nuno Costa 20-24.7.2015 16.00-19.00 The research project developed under this title by the Portuguese artist, curator and theoretician Rogério Nuno Costa will include an intensive workshop aimed for art practitioners and/or theorists who have already developed some work in the fields of performing and/or … Continued
Trip to the North Golden Retriever . Abraham Kritzman, Angels Miralda, Marlene Steyn What makes a myth? Repetition Interpretation Cyclical time Episodic Introduction Images flashed past, waters overflew in numerous directions, and as if we had experienced the fall of Babel, we were dispersed throughout the world. Memory was erased in the … Continued
Abraham Kritzman is a visual artist working with painting, sculpture, and installation. He is currently a tutor at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem and at the School of Visual Art in Kaye College, Beersheva. Angels Miralda is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Royal College of Art in London where she writes on … Continued
Waters Overflowing, Mountains Collapsing, and the Crumbling of the World Pillars Abraham Kritzman, Angels Miralda, and Marlene Steyn 27.7. – 7.9.2015 I found this title months ago when I was Google searching for popular myths and Romanian folklore. I was attracted to this sentence, it conjured images both misty and dusty, rubble and the … Continued
ODD THEORY. A series of public meetings around a set of theoretical notions. Sessions are conducted over 1 to 3 days by one or several guests, sometimes in connection with the residency program at ODD. Guests choose their subject, based upon personal interest and knowledge, and are also asked to reflect upon the method of … Continued
ODD NIGHT #7 AMUR *live* 3.7.2015 22.00 Summer is here and so are we. Join us for a new evening of sound and relaxation in our modern day den and urban garden. AMUR is fresh solo project, an instrumental endeavor that surprises through its full and flowing sound. Ovidiu Chihaia, the man behind the name, … Continued
Summer is here and so are we. Join us for a new evening of sound and relaxation in our modern day den and urban garden. AMUR is a fresh solo project, an instrumental endeavor that surprises through its full and flowing sound. Ovidiu Chihaia, the man behind the name, is also part of the cheeky Mes … Continued
QUIET ODD #3 Sonja Hornung: Introduced and Introducing 28.6.2015 18.30 This week’s QUIET ODD begins with a work by ODD artist-in-resident Sonja Hornung, and then screens three videos she has selected as points of departure from her own work. The evening will conclude with a discussion. Each video work rehearses a process of disintegration. … Continued
SÂMBĂTA SONORĂ Live streaming with Fierbințeanu and Sillyconductor, as part of Radio ENSBA, Paris. Organised by Jumătatea Plină. 18.6.2015 19.45 – 21.00
QUIET ODD #2 Looking at you looking at me Ivana Mladenovic vs. Xandra Popescu 21.6.2015 Our second afternoon of screenings follows the lead of #1: filmmaker Ivana Mladenovic will adapt for the screen Adrian Schiop’s latest novel, whilst guest moderator and flavors curator Xandra Popescu currently shares wall space with artist Simion Cernica at … Continued
This week’s QUIET ODD begins with a work by ODD artist-in-resident Sonja Hornung, and then screens three videos she has selected as points of departure from her own work. The evening will conclude with a discussion. Each video work rehearses a process of disintegration. Sonja Hornung’s Pulver documents an act of erasure. All the options are removed, … Continued
Our second afternoon of screenings follows the lead of #1: filmmaker Ivana Mladenovic will adapt for the screen Adrian Schiop’s latest novel, whilst guest moderator and flavors curator Xandra Popescu currently shares wall space with artist Simion Cernica at MNAC for the exhibition Never Alone. So join us for the opportunity to watch 3 of Ivana’s … Continued
“Unleashed femininity!” (Cătălin Măruță, March 2008) We extend an invitation to investigate a legendary episode in the history of the APACA textile factory. Together we will look through our archive of media remnants and try to make sense of them. As agents of speculation, our mission will be to create a narrative that we will … Continued
QUIET ODD #1 Meat pies and videotapes Simion Cernica vs. Adrian Schiop 14.6.2015 18.00 For our first of lazy Sunday afternoons, we invite artist Simion Cernica to screen a selection of his films and writer / former resident Adrian Schiop to do what he does best – cook. Simion has an amazing range … Continued
QUIET ODD. Sunday afternoon gatherings for idle Southerners. One guest brings in the flicks, another the bites. We provide the floor space and fuel the discussions. Key interests: artists films, radical / experimental education, alternative communities, shaping of collective imaginaries, politics & aesthetics, the ‘social turn’, the ‘speculative turn’. Showcasing local directors alongside international stars, … Continued
For our first of lazy Sunday afternoons, we invite artist Simion Cernica to screen a selection of his films and writer / former resident Adrian Schiop to do what he does best – cook. Simion has an amazing range of extremely subtle video and film works, dealing with absurd and problematic issues from the Romanian post-communist … Continued
ODD NIGHT #6 SĂRITURI ÎN PLIN Grosu /Micleuşanu & Somnoroase Păsărele 29.5.2015 21.30 Say ta-ta to spring with an exercise of sound, visuals and poetry. We invited Mugur Grosu, Somnoroase Păsărele and Micleuşanu Mitoş to play around. Here is the out-of-this-world result.
Agents of Speculation 16.6.2015 15.00-19:00 “Unleashed femininity!” (Cătălin Măruță, March 2008) We extend an invitation to investigate a legendary episode in the history of the APACA textile factory. Together we will look through our archive of media remnants and try to make sense of them. As agents of speculation, our mission will be to … Continued
Sonja Hornung is a visual artist. Working with installation, drawing and writing, she investigates dilemmas generated by the (un)bordered nature of space. She is currently studying Art in Public Space (MA Raumstrategien) at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art. Larisa Crunțeanu works with performance, video and sound. She is a PhD student in the National Arts … Continued
C – Femina Subtetrix Sonja Hornung and Larisa Crunțeanu 26.5 – 30.6.2015 Ox blood, cooked banana, egg, guava, horse hair, sticky rice, milk. Long before the invention of chemical admixtures, concrete was strengthened with these elements, warding off cracking and bolstering its weather resilience. But bridges and factories, pantheons and pentagons are still held together … Continued
Ox blood, cooked banana, egg, guava, horse hair, sticky rice, milk. Long before the invention of chemical admixtures, concrete was strengthened with these elements, warding off cracking and bolstering its weather resilience. But bridges and factories, pantheons and pentagons are still held together with an unseen, once-living glue. This brings to mind a myth: A … Continued
Say ta-ta to spring with an exercise of sound, visuals and poetry. We invited Mugur Grosu, Somnoroase Păsărele and Micleuşanu Mitoş to play around.
Pascale Project Opening act: Fierbințeanu 23.5.2015 21.00 Pascale Mercier (22), aka Pascale Project of Montreal is on a European tour including France, Germany, the Netherlands and Poland. Mercier recently launched Super Natural from the Just Feel Good For a Moment album, which will be released this summer. Fierbințeanu, the charming duo of Gabriela and … Continued
Prologue to a fiction of a space that does not yet exist is an exhibition embedded in a fictional text written by the curator. The premise is the projection of an imaginary space, not necessarily bound by physical laws. This might have something to do with compulsive reading of Proust, conflicted domestic semiotics and a … Continued
TRUE BAN TAM techno noise operatic comes to ODD for a loud gig. Inspired by Radio Vi-Fon’s (North Korea’s last illegal and independent radio station) sound research, the four-piece will deliver an operatic techno noise improvisation. Their creative output is linked – in a manner which is apparently involuntary and humourless – to the discovery of … Continued
Published texts (in Romanian) after Adrian Schiop’s writing workshop. Baba Dica și protoparcagiii Bucureştiului de Cătălin Nae Jocul cu marele creier de Mădălina Botoran Liniștea de pe Berthelot de Andrei Constantinescu Transhumanță urbană de Denisa Vișineanu
Everything falls faster than an anvil Program of animation films by Diego Marcon 30.4.2015 16.00 – 22.00 Everything falls faster than an anvil is a 4 hours screening of cartoons and animated films, from early animations to US studio classics, passing by avant-garde European and Asian animation. The screening is conceived for a wide public – … Continued
Sometimes we host or support events proposed by friends, which are not part of our residency program or of any of our series.
NOAPTEA ALBĂ A GALERIILOR | GALLERY NIGHT 2015 PARADAIZ TAPE MAȘINA Mixed media presentation 19.30 Beginning of the 90s, on the background of the fall of the communist regime and the start of an obsessive transition, a new music scene exploded in Romania. One that was completely neglected and even rejected by the … Continued
TRUE BAN TAM techno noise operatic 22.5.2015 20.00 Michiu – filters, oscillators Lungu – radio, percussion, electronic circuits Tincea aka Fernalia – keys, processed voice Fierbinteanu – sound bites, percussion, bass, vocals Inspired by Radio Vi-Fon’s (North Korea’s last illegal and independent radio station) sound research, the four-piece will deliver an operatic techno … Continued
For the 4th odd night we invite you deep into the rainforest, in the middle of the concrete city, for a night of unearthly celebrations with a festive dash of a b-day party. 4142 and Kyohei come in peace, yet plan to unleash all party creatures out there (literally, so animal print dress code is … Continued
29.4. 2015 19.00 Opening 20.00 Solo Solutions, performance by Adva Zakai A series of short solo performances, which invites the viewer to look at the human body through non-human perspectives. It sets up a play between text and movement through which unpredictable logics pop up: My body … Continued
Julie Béna (b.1982, France) works on environments that draw inspiration from the world of literature, film, theater and popular culture. Her works deal with the threshold between one perception and another; between being a player or a spoilsport, participation or abstinence. Béna studied at the Villa Arson in Nice and attended the Gerrit Rietveld Academie … Continued
Prologue to a fiction of a space that does not yet exist Opening 29.4.2015 19.00 30.4. – 31.5.2015 Julie Béna Marie-Michelle Deschamps Beatrice Gibson João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva François Lancien-Guilberteau Alexandre Léger Diego Marcon Julien Tiberi France Valliccioni Adva Zakai Curated by Barbara Sirieix Prologue to a fiction of a space that … Continued
ODD NIGHT # 4 KYOHEI ABE *live* _ 4142 *DJ set* 17.4.2015 22.00 For the 4th odd night we invite you deep into the rainforest, in the middle of the concrete city, for a night of unearthly celebrations with a festive dash of a b-day party. 4142 and Kyohei come in peace, yet plan … Continued
For the third odd night we welcome the fantastic NAKAZANYE joel grip – double bass antonin gerbal – percussion daichi yoshikawa – electronics part of Umlaut Record Label. Watch them improvise at the dentist’s in Cluj. Upon the invitation from modulab, Monica Vlad proposes an enhanced experience through geometric visuals.
ODD NIGHT # 3 NAKAZANYE *live* 31.3.2015 21.00 For the third odd night we welcome the fantastic NAKAZANYE joel grip – double bass antonin gerbal – percussion daichi yoshikawa – electronics Nakazanye is an extended percussive trio composed by three open minded players. Acoustic phenomena produced by the band draw a map without borders … Continued
Cabinet Portret Colectiva Vagenta 14 & 15.2.2015 13.00 -19.00 VAGENTA took part in the LGBT History Month 2015 with Cabinet Portret, an experiment that attempted to blur the conventional delimitation of gender. We explored the concept of androgyny in an open photo shooting, addressed to anyone interested in playing with its own image and … Continued
Xandra Popescu and Adrian Knuppertz talk about their work in progress You Are Safe With Me. During the month of March 2015, Xandra Popescu and Adrian Knuppertz initiated a visual dialogue with gentlemen who work as defense and security agents. In the following months this will result in a pin up calendar. During the talk … Continued
First days of shooting with Larisa Crunteanu, Adrian K, Alex Dan and the men in uniforms.
About the Immateriality of Photography or, the Spirit without a Body A text by Xandra Popescu and Adrian Knuppertz Adrian Knuppertz As contemporary artistic practice, we might have to stop taking analog pictures, I´m afraid. Still, as the common use of instagram remarkably demonstrates, there appears to be a … Continued
Xandra Popescu works as a writer, filmmaker and artist. She studied Dramatic Writing at the National Theatre and Film University in Bucharest and has a background in Political Science. She sometimes works under the name Soyons Impossible together with artist and performer Larisa Crunteanu.Together, they power Atelier35 – a project space in Bucharest. Adrian Knuppertz … Continued
You Are Safe With Me A project initiated by Xandra Popescu in collaboration with Adrian Knuppertz, produced by Larisa Crunțeanu 10 – 26.3.2015 You Are Safe With Me works with the tension between moving and still image. Between 10-26 March, Xandra Popescu and Adrian Knuppertz are initiating a visual dialogue with gentlemen who work as … Continued
You Are Safe With Me works with the tension between moving and still image. Between 10-26 March, Xandra Popescu and Adrian Knuppertz are initiating a visual dialogue with gentlemen who work as defence and security agents. This will result in a series of moving image portraits and perhaps, if you behave, a pin-up calendar. During … Continued
Artist Talk Ilan Manouach 20.2.2015 19.00 Talk held by Greek artist Ilan Manouach about his projects at the verge of comics and contemporary art, as well as his political engagement. An event organized by Jumătatea plină and followed by a concert held by the artist, together with Jonas Kocher, in Question Mark bar in Bucharest. … Continued
For the second ODD NIGHT of handpicked performers, we welcomed the precious to the ear Kyohei Abe, and his fellow jittering glare, ikhonoklasm. The relatively unknown pair of dudes don’t often feel the need to reveal their work for a big crowd, but we’ve managed to get them out of the shell for the first … Continued
ODD NIGHT # 2 KYOHEI ABE *live* IKHONOKLASM *video art* 26.2.2015 For the second ODD NIGHT of handpicked performers, we welcomed the precious to the ear Kyohei Abe, and his fellow jittering glare, ikhonoklasm. The relatively unknown pair of dudes don’t often feel the need to reveal their work for a big crowd, but we’ve managed … Continued
ODD NIGHT # 1 COUGHY *live* followed by the astral couple LEA RASOVSZKY & GLUE EYES *DJ set* 29.1.2015 The concept of Coughy was to be an exact opposite of clinging to one particular sound or a tedious rehearsal of prior established songs. Improvisation, spontaneity, obscure cultural influences and a complete and reciprocal trust were … Continued
Adrian Schiop hosts a creative writing workshop, free of charge in the limit of the available space, consisting of a few different approaches. The workshops are at the crossroad between fiction and narrative journalism, between storytelling and journal, closely following recent trends in quasi-documentary style literature (non-fiction, autofiction and so on). By the end of the … Continued
Controversial writer Adrian Schiop, who in his latest novel dealt with the underworld of Ferentari neighbourhood in Bucharest, manele and ex-convicts, keeps an art criticism blog, as a neophyte, in which he comments on shows he visits and more generally on his attempts to reconnect to the world of creative types in the center of … Continued
My real name is Adrian-Ion Schiop, but I go by the pen name Adrian Schiop, which is also the name of the main character in my novels. I was born in Porumbacu de Jos, a village in Sibiu county, at the bottom of the Făgărași mountains, by the river Olt, where I first went to … Continued
Single Man Looking Adrian Schiop 20.1.2015 – 10.4.2015 After my second novel was published I abandoned the social scene in the center of the city and I dedicated myself to the study of manele and to the Ferentari neighbourhood ghetto culture, where I had relocated the year before. From there, it didn’t seem that Ferentari, … Continued
ODD NIGHTS. Experimental social gatherings for your pleasure. Musical attempts at making the world a better place. No strings attached. In 2015 and 2016, ODD NIGHTS was co-curated by Cristiana Tăutu and Cristina Bogdan, and between 2016-18, by Cristiana Tăutu and Andra Chițimuș, with Laurențiu Coțac as sound wizard and … Continued
There is a certain pleasure that comes from repetition which never brings about sameness. To say something once is audacious, to repeat it is courageous. Continuity is resistance. We regularly stage opportunities for all those who want to talk and think with us and our guests, for those who are after a unique sound experience, … Continued
Coughy live followed by the astral couple Lea Rasovzsky & Glue Eyes DJ set. The concept of Coughy was to be an exact opposite of clinging to one particular sound or a tedious rehearsal of prior established songs. Improvisation, spontaneity, obscure cultural influences and a complete and reciprocal trust were to be the principles of this project. … Continued
Adrian Schiop hosts a creative writing workshop, free of charge in the limit of the available space, consisting of a few different approaches. The workshops are at the crossroad between fiction and narrative journalism, between storytelling and journal, closely following recent trends in quasi-documentary style literature (non-fiction, autofiction and so on). By the end of the … Continued
After my second novel was published I abandoned the social scene in the center of the city and I dedicated myself to the study of manele and to the Ferentari neighbourhood ghetto culture, where I had relocated the year before. From there, it didn’t seem that Ferentari, with its destitute poor and junkies, is the ghetto, but the Center, … Continued
Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield currently has work showing in Dispositions in Time and Space at the New Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC) Bucharest, four sections of his book ‘to come’ The Swerve of Freedom after Spinoza. He was selected for the first Mobile Biennale last summer in Oltenia, Romania. The Spinoza project has involved giving a … Continued
The gallery space will be open from midday to midnight every day between 25 December 2014 and 7 January 2015. Films will be screened at 8pm. Informal discussions will follow. Each afternoon Jonathan will host seminars discussing various aspects of his project and show footage. December 2014 SAT 27th SCREENING: Dziga Vertov, Enthusiasm: … Continued
The Fall of Enthusiasm Readings All the texts below can be downloaded for free. Agamben – Art, Inactivity, Politics Agamben – Introductory note on concept of democracy Badiou – The democratic emblem Badiou – Democracy, politics, philosophy: an obscure knot Badiou – Does the notion of activist art still have a meaning? Derrida – Politics … Continued
The Fall of Enthusiasm Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield 25.12.2014 – 7.1.2015 OPEN LETTER To Romanians and other enthusiasts of democracy Get out of Europe! ..Only joking. 25 years ago I joined your revolution. As a student I came to Bucharest to make a film in the name of enthusiasm. I commenced it whilst Ceausescu … Continued
ODD was founded in 2014 in Bucharest, grounded in the Romanian imaginary and looking to act upon the world. A space for theoretical discussion and social gatherings of all kinds, it welcomes artists, writers, researchers, philosophers, scientists who initiate discussions, workshops, reading groups, or become engaged with one of the long-term series: ODD THEORY, ODD … Continued
In 2015, our main interest lied in proposing a framework for international artists, curators, writers, theoreticians to develop a project that requires a longer period of research and the intervention of others. Guests benefited from guidance and sustained contact with local actors, with the aim of creating durable networks of knowledge and resistance. We believe … Continued
OPEN LETTER To Romanians and other enthusiasts of democracy Get out of Europe! ..Only joking. 25 years ago I joined your revolution. As a student I came to Bucharest to make a film in the name of enthusiasm. I commenced it whilst Ceausescu was still in power, shooting clandestinely all over Romania. I have returned … Continued