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.
The sites of Apaca and Tricodava, the largest clothing factories in the “Golden Age” of Communist-era Romania, continue to be the subject of various forms of speculation, both mythic and market-driven. Working with this double meaning of the term “speculation”, over a five-week period artists Larisa Crunțeanu and Sonja Hornung tease out their own speculations, documenting their process in the form of a visual diary.
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.
Xandra Popescu and Adrian Knuppertz are initiating a visual dialogue with gentlemen who work as defense and security agents. This will result in a series of moving image portraits and perhaps, if you behave, a pin-up calendar.
What I want to do as writer in residence at ODD is to dig deeper into my schizoid identity as a member of the world of the Center, where I don’t feel I belong, and a wannabe denizen of Ferentari, where I can’t really fit in.
The pathology of enthusiasm, the aporia of democracy its chance and risk, the renewal of philosophical nationalism, the necessary failure of communism, wherefore being-in-common?, the gallery space as theatre hall of history – these are the sorts of things we can talk about.