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.
Working from a multidisciplinary orientation of moving image, sound, text and live performance (informed by biosemiotics, materialist philosophy and queer studies), artist & writer Lou Lou Sainsbury and writer & curator Georgiana Cojocaru consider recent birth of two cloned monkeys Zhong Zhong & Hua Hua.
The Nü Sensitivity project traces connections between narrativity, subjectivity, identity, and the world.
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 purpose of this research is Ovidiu Hulubei’s attempt to describe the insufficiencies of language and to explore plausible solutions to it.
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.
Friendship & flatness from Geneva-based collectives Gum! and Editions Clinamen.
From state to private. From private to occulted. During communism, private life in Romania was enjoying a closeted state, being almost a tabu subject.
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.
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.
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.