QUIET ODD

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.

The selection of videos for QUIET ODD include compilations by VIDEO BATTLE spanning from 2004 until today and explore artistic elements of video making while enhancing an accentuated sense of humor and parody. Besides these short films, Yogyakarta based curator Adelina Luft makes a selection of artist films from Indonesia.

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.

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.

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.

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. Followed by a short video by kinema ikon coordinator reVoltaire. Part of P R I V A T E L Y.

This evening we look at projects that work with casting, rehearsals and improvisation as artistic strategies.

We welcome the heat this year with 2 features from hot chaotic cities, Bucharest and Beirut.

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.

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.