This week’s QUIET ODD is organized by residents Abraham Krtizman and Angels Miralda. Films have been chosen that reflect on the subject of the residency. Looking at contemporary modes of myth making and creating the timeless through a contemporary lens, each film responds to different social codes, geopolitical changes, and cultural references.
A visual diary of the residents’ trip to Northern Romania (Moldova and Bucovina).
What Weight will look at notions of lightness and heaviness to think differently about art and society. Free of preconceived histories, this subject allows for new intersectional thoughts. It forms a nomadic compendium of disciplines ranging from performance to printing techniques, psychological states, feminist research, philosophical enquiries and visual work among others.
ODD and Atelier 35 are pleased to present a final exhibition to conclude a month-long residency with Abraham Kritzman, Angels Miralda, and Marlene Steyn at ODD organized by Cristina Bogdan. The subject of research relates to the study and function of mythology in an imaginary contemporary society. Using the term mythology loosely and separately from its inconclusive multiple definitions, the project questions notions at the core of image making. Repetition, Interpretation, and Type are examined not only in the creation of characters and narrative, but also in how these are imprinted within the popular imaginary.
When everyone has drowned in the sand, come be swept away by a fresh breeze of sound in our cool concrete garden.
ROQ DOC and ODD present for the first time Paris Is Burning subtitled in Romanian, to celebrate its 25th anniversary, and as a shout from the past about the state of queer culture then, but also today. The screening of the film will be followed by a panel discussion hosted by A.N. Păun with the participation of queer activists Ștefan Iancu and Vlad Levente Viski, about contemporary queer culture in Romania and abroad.
Angels Miralda, currently an enrolled Ph.D. student at the Royal College of Ar London will conduct a 3-day session on the topic of contemporary installation. She will outline a problem with the usage of the word “installation” that begins to show the vague history and problematics of the word, then develop the political implications of the notion.
There are still modern myths that serve the same functions as those of the ancients. They are stories that everybody knows and exist in a multitude of variations but with a central model from which only deviations exist.
Summer is here and so are we. Join us for a new evening of sound and relaxation in our modern day den and urban garden.
This session of QUIET ODD begins with a work by ODD artist-in-resident Sonja Hornung, and then screens three videos she has selected as points of departure from her own work. The evening will conclude with a discussion.