The Octopus Programme presents a lecture performance by Egle Oddo in
conversation with Leonardo Caffo—as an iteration of the research-based project Performative
Habitats (12.11.2020-30.09.2021). The artist Egle Oddo and the philosopher Leonardo Caffo will stage a conversation
about the implications between artistic and philosophical research.
Lecture Performance: Egle Oddo in conversation with Leonardo
Caffo
Live VJ: Random Doctors
Photo archive and camera: Antti
Ahonen
Sound: Timo Tuhkanen
Performative Habitats includes
a series of exhibitions, actions, events, and lectures in Zagreb, Palermo, Rome, Vienna, Tunis, Mänttä and Helsinki, culminating
with an installation en plein air at the XXV Mänttä Festival of Visual Arts, held in Finland in June 2021.
The project
is curated by Lori Adragna and includes several creative moments which will be rendered as a monographic
publication produced in collaboration with postmediabooks publishing house, Milan. The project is supported by Italian Council
edition 8, the Arts Promotion Centre Finland, and the Finnish Cultural Foundation.
Performative
Habitats merges biology, botany, and natural sciences with the varied languages of artistic disciplines. At a historical moment
that sees climate change among our primary emergencies, the artist aims to convert everyday practices and establish new production
methods that are sustainable for the environment.
Octopus Programme is a guided, research-based
educational programme which encourages artistic research and production-based collaborations between academies, art institutions,
students and professionals and includes diverse presentation modes, processes of research and documentation taking form within
and from different geographies. By merging the viewpoints of academic entities and contemporary art institutions and utilizing
their facilities and activities, the programme aims to develop an autonomous and progressive educational methodology. It is
a unique partnership of
University of Applied Arts Vienna with 11 international
institutions from seven countries:
Kamel Lazaar Foundation,
Tunis;
Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm;
Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation;
The
University of Pretoria;
The Centre for The Less Good Idea, Johannesburg;
Birzeit University, the Palestinian Museum, Birzeit;
Khalil
Sakakini Cultural Center, Ramallah;
SAHA Association, Istanbul;
Publics,
Helsinki; and
Saastamoinen Foundation, Helsinki.
