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The Oddstages pressed the play button: rock fans making devil horns, beat junkies and indie kids hanging around in the Oddstream

festival, built around the inspiring cultural factory in the industrial area of Nijmegen. Beside the excellent choice of music, exhibitions in the contain-ers and installations all around give the festival atmosphere and Nijmegen city a pleasant vibe. Luckily, the weather is also on Oddstream’s side.

“It is pacman with the ultimate freedom, divine in our consumerist society”, Jan van der Asdonk, one of the artists, sums up. Everyone knows pacman, the game with the yellow character eating its way through little dots, while colourful ghosts are chasing it. It can be nerve-wrecking, annoying, challeng-ing. Now, imagine a pacman with the opportunity to eat non-stop, without enemies, without a limited amount of food...

“It all began with two broken arcade cabinets. We came up with the idea of adapting the popular pac-man game. That is how Freeman was born.” Insert any coin you want, be it five cents or one Norwegian Kroner and you enter the heaven of limitless freedom and resources. “At first glance, the word ‘Free-man’ has an extremely positive connotation”, Jan agrees, “but you are basically caught in the chains of infinite consumption.”

“The only way to ever end the game is suicide. You either just stop moving and therefore stop eating, or you find your way into the cave of the ghost.” Your movements are not leaving any trace, you wan-der around realising the futility and make your decision to pull the trigger yourself, forcing a quit.Is there a better metaphor?

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Text: Laura Reti // Photo: Karim Shalaby

Text: Melek Senturk // Photo: Cirila Zorenc

Creating an imaginary world by an interactive setting with projections, live animation and drawings as well as an ordinary item which was recognizable for everyone, paper, she encouraged the audience to get involved into the show.When I was passing by the Oddstage, the immediate traffic to Chop Wood (NL), the solo project of Odilo Grod from Coparck, caught my eye. Without any guitar rhythms, his acoustic sound mixed with eclectic electronic tunes, multilayered vocals of insomniatic lyrics, gave the listeners a calm feeling.

After Chop Wood, I ran to the Vasim stage to have a look at another hip band from the Netherlands, Lola Kite. With the help of the promos of their new album, they created a nice vibe of concert atmosphere.

The festival kicked off in early afternoon with local bands and DJ’s both on the Concretestage (Liquid Snow, NL) and on the Streamstage (Sick of Silence, NL), getting considerable attention from the audience. One of the highlights of the first day was Nina Boas (NL), the celebrated per-formance artist from Rotterdam, who employs imagination and alienation.

Unquestionably, the biggest hit of the day was the Young Gods (CH). Hypnotic and heavy, melodic and noisy, familiar yet utterly unique, the Young Gods were young again.

Later in the Club Oddstream the DJ’s like Richard Devine (US), Coco Bryce (NL) and Ceephax (UK) totally hit the roof with sharp beats and sent the audience to the camp area with awe.Tonight the headlines are the all-Dutch line up of the Death Letters, Emperors, zZz and Krause, while Club Oddstream promises a party with Alec Empire (DE) and T.Raumschmiere (DE), which should not be missed. Interviews with artists and more on “http://www.oddstream.org/” www.oddstream.org.

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You’ve been warned not to enter, you’ve been instructed to let your imagination surrender. Didn’t listen. Thought you’re an ODD-STREAMist? Not yet: until you’ve educated yourself you are just an extremist.So dig: you are the closest thing you have to a voice of reason. Dig it? Then dig deeper: you are in search for the thing that inspires mind and soul. Welcome to the digging ground - this is your second day in the ODD-STREAM compound. Do not be afraid to stand out - the inspired one doesn’t hide behind the crowd. Look around: you are a part of 3D inspirational surround! There is no need to hold your breath, let yourself drown in the art and sound. Open your senses - there is new in you to be found.Stereotypes, phobias, prejudices - you know there is no way to get it up if you do not let them go. If this is the case, why do you still resist the stream of odd mind flow? Is it difficult to get rid of the mainstream shackles issued to keep you going slow?

Dare to surprise yourself and get inspired. This is ODDSTREAM and you are among your own.

Photo of the dayby Karim

Shalaby

Text: Janina Gutermann // Photo: Karim Shalaby

We all have knowledge which will be helpful for more people than the ones we know. Knowl-edge that will help people to achieve their individual dreams. Durf te Vragen/Dare to Ask wants to bring those people together. Durf te Vragen is a project run by Juul Martin and Niels Roemen. We met Juul in one of the containers, where he was sitting on a bright green pillow. Two years ago, the two guys felt inspired by an Estonian grassroots movement to start this project where people worked together to solve questions you can`t answer by yourself. Questions you don`t want to ask your peers because they don`t want to be judged on that. People can meet and work with each other at De Waarmakerij which is the office of Durf te Vragen. Through their website waarmakerij.nl they can arrange meetings. Durf te Vragen is a win-win situation. Not only does every participant get closer to his or her own dreams but also start to help other people.

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Did you know? Did you know?

Did you know?

The 360 degrees me-dia lab sometimes turn into a ‘gezellig’ futuris-tic cocktail party (with no booze though). Richard Devine was

pretty intrigued by the plplpl.pl installation.

Children love Chroma. Once they start play-ing with the plexi-glassy drops they re-quire ice cream candy to call it quits.

Oddstream morally supports a counter counter-cultural fest: the Contrastream.

Text : Flaminia Klla, Photo: Cirila Zorenc

Text : Flaminia Klla

Hello lovely Oddstreamists, ready for a new saucy update?

Here. You will be delighted to know that our mascotte, the woody dong, fi-

nally’s got his missus: a sinuous wooden vulva. Cyrille was shaping it with

his mighty chainsaw when he aknowledged my presence and promptly asked

“Ok?”

“Approved!” I said.

I mean, you should see it, you surely can’t get it wrong.

I’m afraid I won’t be as revelatory as promised ‘cause Gid, my ally from the

lavatories, was nowhere to be found. He put his groupies at the wc gates and

presumably pimped out the toilets’ fee so he could go and enjoy the shows.

By the way, rumour has it that Carach Angren caused their share of funk, scar-

ing people shitless with their Chtulhu-ish make up. The backstage bar ladies

got really upset and thought those apparently normal guys of five minutes

before had suddenly underwent their mutation into Ghostface.

BUT THE BEST HAPPENED AFTER THE YOUNG GOD’S GIG. I met this very nice german woman

who’s following the band since ‘85 and guess what? She told me she also was

in Montreaux years ago, when they performed with Mike Patton.

Ok, so what? I cried when I saw that on the interwebz.

That’s all for today dear oddies. See you here.

I j ust l ove th is bui l ding, its so myster ious. When

you are here it fee l s l ike w e are enter ing another

w or l d! w e are enter ing another w or l d!

II came her a l ot, because I w ork here at a pr int -ing office. Th is is my first t ime here w hen there is a fest iva l or a par ty,I rea l l y l ove it ! A rea l l y good p l ace for th is kind of fest iva l !

I have been to th is p l ace a l ot before, I he l ped to bui l d th is, to make th is a very beaut ifu l p l ace.I am rea l l y happy to be here no w .

I rea l l y l ike the l ocat ion, I've never been here be -

fore, it is rea l l y nice. It is a l so very suitab l e for th is

fest iva l , because it is not mainst ream at a l l , j ust l ike

the fest iva l .

Petra, 22, student digital art & culture

Marc, 21, art designer

Jino, 19, student social works and service

Lae, 30, art designer

Text: Laura Reti, Photo: Laura Reti, Cirila Zorenc

02.06.2011 Issue:2

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