ODD marks a ground where a set of interactions is encouraged – pertaining less to formal artistic activities and more to hybrid gestures, idiosyncratic reactions and self-reproducing curiosity.
Not constrained by an institutional frame, choices stem from the urgency of private encounters, taken as starting points for addressing the world.
ODD provides tools for action and resistance to all those seeking to craft and take pleasure in our world.
MEANDER International Platform is a web platform where members of four initiatives situated in different parts of the world come together to exchange ideas and questions regarding our relations to our environments and fellow life forms.
A project initiated by Swimming Pool at the time of lock-down due to the Covid-19 pandemics, that aims to enable an attentive interrelation between art organizations, in order to make concerns, politics and action, but most of all invention, sharable across different contexts and ecosystems.
Piotr Sikora in conversation with Kateřina Konvalinová and Matěj Pavlík, featuring works by Kateřina Konvalinová, Jiří Žák, Lucie Rosenfeldová, Matěj Pavlík.
The evening will touch upon alternative tools and approaches, from federated and community-owned social media platforms, and other types of infrastructures that Varia, a space in the South of Rotterdam (the Netherlands), is experimenting with.
Taking place during Liminal, this worksop by Bonjour Monde invites anyone working or not in computer related fields to discover the erratic and subversive logic of the virus and let their practices contaminated by it.
During the residency at MeetFactory in Prague, Czech Republic, 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.
London-based performance company There There expand Trigger Warning, a participatory installation which contests stereotypes about Eastern European immigrants.
Relaying on the concept of performative working/labor, Mara Genschel enacts during this 4-weeks FUR SESSIONS the repetition as a way to mark the event of difference and to amplify the sequence to sequence becomings of herself and her art.
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?
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.