Odete: On Werewolfs

Adopting the format of a musical conference, Odete explores the performative and queer dimensions of werewolves throughout their history. Although it follows a thread of rational thinking, the “conference” plays out amid snorts, melodies and transformations, with the audience being invited to follow the artist’s mysterious trains of thought. Is it possible to run a conference without speaking? And what might monsters make us feel in today’s world? Odete is the alias of Lévi Gabriel, whose practice moves between performance, text, visual arts and music. Their work reveals an obsession with historiographic writing, and uses erotica and paranoia as two embodied forms of relating to archive material.

Photography: Levi © Renato Chorão