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.
