Odete @ Casa de Odeleite

A multidisciplinary artist, Odete (b. 1995, Porto) develops work in the fields of music, visual arts, performance and theatre. She completed the course of Performing Arts at the Academia Contemporânea do Espetáculo-Escola de Artes in Porto and has presented her creations in different spaces and contexts, such as Teatro Sao Luiz (Lisbon), Teatro Municipal Campo Alegre (Porto), malavoadora.porto (Porto), CasAzul (Barcelos), CAPC – Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra (Coimbra). ), Festival DDD – Dias da Dança (Porto), Festival Iminente (Lisbon), Rua das Gaivotas 6 (Lisbon). Odete recently won the ReXform award for the performing arts, presenting the project "On Revelations and Muddy Becomings" at MAAT and in collaboration with the biennial BoCA. She has brought to the world the following music releases : “Water Bender" (New Scenery, 2020), "To those who are paranoid broken bored" (Self-release, 2019), "Amarração" (Rotten:Fresh, 2019) and "Matrafona" (Naivety, 2018) ), made music for theatre : Raquel André's "Colection of Artists", Luara Learth Moreira's "Manguba", Dinis Machado's "Yellow Puzzle Horse” and soundtracks for several films including André Godinho's "Imaterial Girl" / Single Dog. or "Across the great Night" by Jota Mombasa. She collaborated with the collective knowbotiq on soundscapes for landscapes in Scotland and Guimarães. Odete is part of the "SHAPE platform" 2021-2022, a platform for innovative music financed by the European Union's "Creative Europe" program. She presented her first solo exhibition at O ​​Bardo and, more recently, the exhibition LYSIS, with Diana Policarpo in Quéréla (Lisbon). In 2022, unleashed her first book of poetry entitled "The Elder Femme and other Stone Writings" by Swamp Books. In her residency as part of the Particular Universal project, her work will center around themes concerning speculative fiction as a tool of questioning history. She will film sites in the Castro Marim municipality while developing a fictional narrative in dialogue and contrasting the materials collected during her residency as well as studies about the Portuguese inquisition and PIDE's documentation. All this to create connections with the geography and history of Castro Marim.