IMMINENT DETOUR

Imminent Detour / Andreea Samoilă (1996,RO) is a visual artist interested in objects, words and tools after they depart from the "manual" version of themselves.

She works under the name Imminent Detour to give a nod to memory palaces, and because she is in no rush to get to the point.


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IMMINENT DETOUR

Andreea Samoilă (1996,RO) is a visual artist, and an independent editor & art director of printed matter. She is interested in objects, words and tools after they depart from the "manual" version of themselves.

She makes objects, books and actions focussing on witty uses of objects, unexpected associations and word-play. Andreea works under the name Imminent Detour, giving a nod to memory palaces, imaginary spaces and times in which to anchor new information.

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Launch in 2024 All Things Measured, ISSUE 01 Length.

Curate an exhibition about navigation. Detours, mind maps, click crawlers and the like, an exhibition space exclusively made to be navigated. Publication of the exhibition also to be a space to walk through with the eyes.

Curate for a day the flowers in a flower shop. In order to encrypt a riddle in their positioning.

Do a pop-up radio show during a design/architecture festival. Question mundane-ness through object / artwork interviews (not people interviews, booooring), live commentary of the festival like a football match, closeups on the walking design of the festival. Sponsored by the puddle on the sidewalk not dried yet from the rain two days ago.

Design & edit more books for other artists.

Waiting for the right time

Be the editor and graphic designer for the monograph of Mircea Nicolae’s works.

Publish Language Safari. A book (currently in writing) exploring where and how we use names of animals in non-animal settings.

Make a book about a Romanian archive of objects. Looking for a contact from a cultural institution with an archive they want to reveal to the public in book form.

Go to Iceland on a summer residency. To observe, question and make rocks, a rock-book and a book rocks. look at this project if it doesn’t make sense.

Find someone that has a package to send on a long route. So I can design the packaging for it.

Make a board-game about landscapes. Design all those surfaces and folds of a packed board game turn into a majestic, scale questioning, pawn trailing, pun blazing, landscape inquisitive game.

Mass collaborative project of taking flowers for a walk. In the rain to water them well at the same time.

A haircut made by candle. Searching for someone willing. Based on past experience of my grandmother falling asleep during Easter mass, leaning frontwards and giving me an impromptu candle-made haircut.

Radio Hour Special about the history of the podcast voice. I didn’t grow up listening to NPR, and I am not from the US. So it is very hard to pinpoint why I find this SNL sketch funny, particularly how do I somewhat recognise some tropes going on with how they use their voice? Combine this with the changing pitch of podcast hosts while they get comfortable with the mic throughout seasons, and this delicious history of radio-ads made by Clive Desmond. Let’s make one comprehensive radio-hour special about the history of the podcast voice. (is it too obvious that I am also looking for my own podcast voice?)

Make a rug sing Make an app that uses the process of slitscanning to make and/or translate surfaces of rugs and other motifs into music. Idea came during a dream, where my subconscious combined the 99pi episode about the optophone with Vera van der Seyp’s hacked knitting machines. Hey, maybe we collab:)

New designs of waiting room. The waiting room has been waiting long enough for a revamp of what people can do inside of it. But no rush, it will wait some more if its time hasn’t come yet.

Make a series of socks with rug patterns. So that you always have a rug under your feet. You too could be fancy like Aziz.



** friends, if you need an actual wishlist of stuff I want, here it is