The anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, in his book La Pensée Sauvage, refers to art objects as miniature models through which the sensible world can be understood in its entirety. The processes of miniaturization and scale change raise countless questions not only about the perception of reality but also about survival strategies in conditions of oppression, irony as a political tool for subverting power, and the possibility of art stepping outside institutional boundaries, overcoming "the depressing idea of the irreparable divorce between action and dream" (Breton, 1932).

Focusing primarily on the lecture format and the materials required for its realization, the workshop Odds & Ends simultaneously connects theoretical and visual practices to transform lectures into true miniature exhibitions, i.e. artistic and theoretical experiments that take on anti-monumental, anti-institutional, secret, camouflaged, portable formats, reproducible and adaptable to multiple media.

Tomaso De Luca (1988) is a visual artist living and working in Berlin. His artistic practice—characterized by an interdisciplinary approach ranging from drawing to sculpture, video to writing—uses miniaturization as a technique to 'pervert' the rigid distinctions between media and to address the complex relationships between space, the unconscious, modernity, politics, and the imaginary.

The workshop consists of three days of activities with the following schedule:

February 5th from 2.30 PM to 6 PM, followed by the artist’s lecture-performance
February 6th-7th from 10 AM to 6 PM

The workshop is free of charge and is designed from a multidisciplinary perspective that aims in particular at artists, designers, architects, theorists, writers and curators. However, applications from people from any field are welcome.