Biography
Ode de Kort‘s artistic practice can be seen as an ongoing exercise with different characters in a poetic and performative investigation of the interrelationships between body and language. This process translates into installation, performance, text, photography, video and sound.
In many of her works, the O is a kind of central axis through and around which other works and characters emerge. This practice leads to an extended vocabulary, namely a language that arises through, and interacts with, its context. She works with both the material, (typo)graphic, poetic and performative qualities of these characters and they are engaged as transformative forms in the most diverse contexts. By zooming in and out, repeating and shifting, she is in search of rhythms and in-between spaces that allow us to (re)make sense of them.
In residentie BBBB IT(E)S OF OOTS
27.11.2025 – 28.11.2025
BBBB IT(E)S OF OOTS is a performance in which a black rubber work boot plays the leading role as a typographic performer and language-producing engine. The boot searches for an absurd in-between space between that which is flat, empty or full and acquires different forms as a result.
How do abstractions acquire animated and lived meaning, only to ‘fall flat’ again into a sign? How can language gestate itself in movement? And can the fragmentation of that same movement serve as a poetic and humorous language decomposition?
With the boot as the main character, ‘episodes’ are developed in which this form begins to express itself in a grammar of cutting, repeating, stuttering, falling …