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.
Ana Barbu Uzura describes objects and abandoned junk, segments of some daily rituals mysteriously recalibrated through a breeze of decomposing beauty.
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.
Is there any pop-feminism?
We celebrate female electro-hip hop through a (video) mix, a micro performance by Morfolina and DIY poetry Vagenta style.
We are camping for one night at ODD!
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.
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.
Improv night with broken word, solo soprano voice, a body in movement, non-verbal response to drone noise, and electronic synth.