23-25 august 2023
10 am - 2 pm, daily
”Ways of Organisation” project is continuing with a three day reading group with students from the Mural Arts Department, Visual Art and Design Faculty, “George Enescu” National Art University, Iasi. Trying to identify together in which way artists are not any different than any other professional groups in the participation to the dynamics of economical and social relations, we embarked on a different kind of attempt within the reading group practices and decided to research the ways artists decide to organize economically. We will be reading several articles from Art Work: A National Conversation About Art, Labor, & Economics, a magazine compiled by Temporary Services in 2009. Temporary Services made this newspaper in 2009 as a direct response to the financial collapse of 2008 and the devastating impact it had on the arts, artists, art museums, exhibitions spaces, curators and others working within the field of fine, community, or contemporary art. The magazine combines more theoretical texts and texts coming from a particular experience. You can download the newspaper here: https://halfletterpress.com/art-work-a-national-conversation-about-art-labor-economics-pdf/
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28th of April - 1st of May 2023
Friday, 3 - 7 pm CET
Saturday - Monday, 9 am - 1 pm CET
The group 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘛𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 invites all interested to join online sessions celebrating the 1st of May, on Georg Lukacs’ text 𝘛𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘢 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘥𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘖𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 (1923). This essay is part of Lukacs’ anthology 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴–𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘋𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 (1919-1923). The sessions will be held between 28th of April and 1st of May 2023, in the frame of the project 𝘞𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘖𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.
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2023 / 2024
(13th-17th of April 2023)
tranzit.ro/ Iași is happy to announce a new collaboration with the international artist Jens Haaning which will be materialised in 2024. Between 13th and the 17th of April we worked, walked, wondered in Iasi, while inquiring how to move forward. Ideas will unravel soon.
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4-7th of December 2022
Iasi, Romania
Str. Sf. Atanasie, nr. 25 (GreenHouse)
A project by ULUS - Artist Union from Serbia (Belgrade), Začin Social Center (Belgrade), 1+1 / tranzit.ro/ Iasi (Iasi) and Oberliht (Chisinău)
Guests: Vahida Ramujkic, Tijana Cvetković, Noa Treister, Maxim Polyakov, Vladimir Us, Arina Cazac, Ognjen Petrović, Nataša Bodrožić
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https://www.instagram.com/p/CWnHKDslXXj/
Cezar Lăzărescu’s online contribution consisted of a series of archival images documenting his artworks from the late 90s and early 2000s. These are only a small selection of his incommensurable artistic work in terms of importance, relevance and volume for the Romanian and Iași contemporary art scene.
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online contribution of Iasi series
https://www.instagram.com/p/CWfsPLOoWCe/
Long after having left the residency in Iasi, the Bucharest based artist – Eduard Constantin is still contributing to @tranzitiasi instagram page with new drawings from Iasi series.
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NoteBook 2022
December 2021
We are now waiting the Gift NoteBook 2022 resulted from the FUTURE COLLECTION exhibition realised in November 2021 at Aparte Gallery of the Iasi Art University – UNAGE with Iași only colleagues: Dan Acostioaei, Anticamera (Gloria Luca și Tudor Pătrașcu), Luminița Toma, Matei Bejenaru, Delia Bulgaru, Andreea Cioară, Florin Bobu, Lavinia German, Cezar Lăzărescu, Mălina Moncea, Sarah Muscalu, Dumitru Oboroc, Poe Orlando Emanuel, s.a.b.a (Silvia Amancei și Bogdan Armanu), Andrei Timofte, Aris Tureac, Smaranda Ursuleanu, Mihai Vereștiuc.
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https://www.instagram.com/p/CWahvukshhi/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CWc3WY1oJ0w/
Veda Popovici’s online contribution consisted in a poem and a series of drawings. One can still reflect on this really important contribution posted in two episodes on our instagram page.
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1+1 @Aparte Gallery, UNAGE, December 2021
Matei Bejenaru, Cezar Lăzărescu, Mihai Vereștiuc, Luminița Toma, Dumitru Oboroc, Lavinia German, Andrei Timofte, Smaranda Ursuleanu, Livia Pancu, Cristian Nae, Oana Maria Nae, Gloria Luca & Tudor Patrașcu (Anticamera), Bogdan Armanu & Silvia Amancei (s.a.b.a), Andreea Cioară, Delia Bulgaru, Dan Acostioaei, Cătălin Gheorghe, Cristina Moraru, Mălina Moncea, Sarah Muscalu.
Exhibition design: ZoKraft (Andrei Pripasu & Ionuț Toma)
Curators: Florin Bobu și Smaranda Ursuleanu
Installation shots: Alexandru Paul
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July - August 2021
On adult education: Paulo Freire
Paulo Freire had a substantial influence on community and social engaged art, for instance in defining the artist as an educator. For him, literacy was not a technical impediment or a mode of self-improvement, but a limit to participation. Literacy is not only reading the alphabet but also a way of thinking about our mode of participation, the inclusion practices, and the gatekeeping practices of certain social groups. We will examine reading together as a method of inclusion.
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@tranzitiasi
July- September 2021
2020 and 2021 meant for tranzitiasi a new journey in which we had to set up and experiment new methods to talk to each other, if not in person. Thus, we realigned our projects in order to build a set of parallel platform for artistic contributions, mostly with guests artist based in Iasi using the - now banal - Instagram.
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Project /
May - November 2021
Participants: Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan, Baran Caginli, Dana Andrei & Sorin Popescu, Beatrice Anghelache, Cătălin Gheorghe, Maxim Polyakov, Mădălina Muscă, Bogdan Popa, Ovidiu Pop, Valentin Cernat, Smaranda Ursuleanu, Andrei Timofte, Ruxandra Simion, Delia Bulgaru
Through an in depth theoretical and artistic examination of the practice of reading together we will examine how art and culture are becoming an important factor in education and especially peer to peer and intergenerational informal education. As a result, the group exhibitions, the reading groups, the publications will raise awareness and build the capacity of artists and cultural operators to assume this role of educators.
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Always late and always with too much photo documentation that have never been published, burried in the digital grave, we have decided to weekly share with you our dearest moments starting with 2012.
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tranzit. ro/ Iasi started a new project during 2020 and 2021 and which will combine during 14 moths a series of 8 new online contemporary art productions, live presentations and a series of 16 interviews realized with former collaborators that are familiar with the Iasi artistic scene.
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During 2020 and 2021 a series of interviews related to the Contemporary Art History in Iasi have been conducted, transcribed, and translated to English. 3 to 4 weekly excerpts of this interviews will pe posted @tranzitiasi Instagram account, grouped in three sections: Contemporary Art, Biennials and Iasi.
Curated online by Smaranda Ursuleanu.
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19th of May – 19th of June 2020
Only online, on Instagram account: @tranzitiasi
“Limited to online formats of displaying art nowadays, @tranzitiasi becomes for the next 4 weeks a virtual diary exhibited through Instagram stories, posts and maybe lives from an authentic need to connect to each other. Instagram is a visual display of intimacy, mundane aspects and everyday activities, thoughts and ideas about past and future projects, memories, selfies, memes, short videos performed for ourselves, for our friends, family members, acquaintances, collaborators, and complete strangers.
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a new initiative on the cultural scene in Iasi. /
At the end of 2019, tranzit.ro/Iași is proud to announce publicly the support for Satellite Association, a new presence on the local and national scene. Initiated by our former colleague Delia Bulgaru, together with the artist Andrei Timofte, Satellite - in its NGO formula, has already organized its first project "Independent artistic initiatives: Presentations and debates in the public sphere of Iasi" in the second half of the year, having the public presentation between November 21 and 22, 2019 with guests from Romanian independent scene: Alexandru Muraru (Matca artspace, Cluj-Napoca), Miki Braniște (Colectiv A, Cluj-Napoca), Dana Andrei and Sorin Popescu (CORNER football + society, Bucharest) , Flaviu Rogojan (Here There Pop Up Gallery, Cluj-Napoca)
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28 December 2018, 7 pm
tranzit.ro/ Iași
Al. Lăpușneanu St, no. 7-9
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19 November 2018, 7 pm
tranzit.ro/ Iași
Al. Lăpușneanu St, no. 7-9
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A performative setting by Farid Fairuz /
Assistant performer: Maria Mora
Iaşi, 28 and 29 September 2018, 12 am and 4 pm
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Book launch, public reading and writing workshop with Ovid Pop and Simona Năstac /
This reading addresses the issue of literary migration or residency in a transnational space and how this transforms literary production.
tranzit.ro/ Iași
Str. Al. Lăpușneanu, nr. 7-9
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Screening and public discussion /
On Saturday, 15th of September, we invite you to the screening of History Does (Not) Repeat Itself, followed by a public discussion with the authors of the film, Veda Popovici and Mircea Nicolae.
tranzit.ro/ Iași
Str. Al. Lăpușneanu, nr. 7-9
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Minna Henriksson, Jens Haaning, Harun Farocki, Marius Babias, Sezgin Boynik /
TRECUT INCOMOD / INCONVENIENT PAST exerts the ability of contemporary art to offer deep understanding of the social present in close connection with local memory and the global artistic agenda.
August-December 2018
tranzit.ro/ Iaşi
Str. Al. Lăpuşneanu, nr. 7-9
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July-November 2018
Iași-Gherla-Bonțida-Scornicești-Lupeni-București-Vienna
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Saturday, 16th of June, 8 pm
tranzit.ro/ Iaşi
Al. Lăpuşneanu St. no. 7-9
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Discussion moderated by Georgiana Madin and Andrei Luca /
Saturday, 19th of May, 7 pm
tranzit.ro/ Iași
Al. Lăpușneanu St, no. 7-9
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March – August 2018
Noa Treister, Cristina David, Valentin Cernat & Mihai Șovăială, Vladimir Us, Mona Vătămanu & Florin Tudor, Ștefan Rusu, Jens Haaning, Ovidiu Gherasim Proca, Miki Branişte, David Schwartz, Ionuţ Tudor, Andrei Timofte, Marius Alexandru Dan, Alexandru Ţîrdea, Dan Acostioaei
tranzit.ro/ Iaşi
Al. Lăpuşneanu street, no. 7-9
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10 years of TEMPS D`IMAGES. Independence.Experiment.Production /
Book launch together with IULIA POPOVICI and MIKI BRANIŞTE
Friday, 16 February, 7 pm
tranzit.ro/ Iaşi
Al. Lăpuşneanu street, no. 7-9
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31st of December 2017 – 15th of March 2018
tranzit.ro/ Iaşi
Al. Lăpuşneanu street, no. 7-9
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31st of December 2017 – 15th of March 2018
tranzit.ro/ Iaşi
Al. Lăpuşneanu street, no. 7-9
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Film Screening /
20th of October 2017, 7 pm
tranzit.ro/ Iaşi
Al. Lăpuşneanu street, no. 7-9
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Film Screening /
13th of October, 2017, 7 pm
tranzit.ro/ Iaşi
Al. Lăpuşneanu street, no. 7-9
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Tuesday, 26th of September 2017, 6 pm
ZPAŢIU, Casa Zemstvei Guberniale
Al. Șciusev Street, no. 103, Chișinău
Republic of Moldova
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With Alex NIKOLIC and Mohamed MOUAZ /
Wednesday, the 13th of September, 12 pm – 6 pm
Thursday, the 14th of September, 4 pm – 8 pm
tranzit.ro/ Iaşi
Al. Lăpuşneanu Street
No. 7-9
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Short time residency /
15 – 25th of July 2017
tranzit.ro/ Iași
Al. Lăpușneanu St. 7-9
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July – November 2017
tranzit.ro/ Iaşi
Al. Lăpuşneanu street, no. 7-9
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Friday, 23rd of June 2017
MERU Gallery
Curator: Livia Pancu
The exhibition is open between May 28 and June 23, 2017.
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Book launch /
Friday, 9th of June, 7 pm
tranzit.ro/ Iași
Al. Lăpușneanu St. 7-9
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2 June - 15 November 2017
tranzit.ro/ Iași
Al. Lăpușneanu St. 7-9
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31st of May 2017, 3 – 5 pm
Historiska Museet, Narvavägen 13–17
Stockholm
Konstfack, CuratorLab 2016-2017
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Friday, 5th of May 2017, 6 pm
apARTe Gallery in Iași
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Friday, the 17th of March and Saturday, the 18th of March 2017
tranzit.ro/ Iași
Al. Lăpușneanu St. 7-9
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Tuesday, 7 March 2017, 6 pm
tranzit.ro/ Iași
Str. Al. Lăpușneanu 7-9
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Tuesday, the 14th of February 2017, 7 pm
tranzit.ro/ Iași
Al. Lăpușneanu St. 7-9
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Saturday, the 7th of January 2017, 7:15 - 9 pm
tranzit.ro/ Iași
Al. Lăpușneanu St. 7-9
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tranzit.ro/ Iași
Str. Al. Lăpușneanu 7-9
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Simona & Ramona /
Sunday, 13th of November 2016
tranzit.ro/ Iași
Al. Lăpușneanu St. 7-9
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tranzit.ro/ Iași
Al. Lăpușneanu St. 7-9
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Public presentation and working table / Nebojsa Milikic /
Saturday, 15th of October, 2016
tranzit.ro/ Iași
Al. Lăpușneanu St. 7-9
The second particle of the Depository of the Initiative for the Petite Bourgeois Party in Iași will be publically discussed at tranzit.ro/ Iași together with Nebojša Milikić on Saturday, 15th of October 2016.
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with Adi Dohotaru /
Saturday, 8th of October 2016, 8 pm
tranzit.ro/ Iași
Al. Lăpușneanu St. 7-9
Saturday, the 8th of October we invite you to the Pata book Launch, a publication about the activism related to the Pata Rât ghetto from Cluj, alongside with one of its editors, Adi Dohotaru.
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September - October 2016 /
Participants: Dan Acostioaei, Silvia Amancei, Bogdan Armanu, Cristina Bogdan, Marius Alexandru Dan, Cristina David, Adi Dohotaru, Cătălina Hirean, Diana Mărgărit, Ovidiu Pop, Andrei Pripasu, Andrei Timofte, Alexandru Țîrdea
Concept and coordination: Florin Bobu, Ovidiu Gherasim-Proca and Livia Pancu
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Saturday, 24 September 2016, 7:30 pm
tranzit.ro/ Iași
Al. Lăpușneanu St. 7-9
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Monday, 15th of August 2016, 9:30 pm
tranzit.ro / Iași
Al. Lapusneanu St., 7-9
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Documentary film: screening and discussion with Keno Verseck, Florin Bobu and Ovidiu Gherasim-Proca /
Saturday, 11th June 2016, 8 pm
tranzit.ro/ Iași
Al. Lăpușneanu St. 7-9
tranzit.ro/ Iași invites you on Saturday, 11th of June 2016 at 8 pm to take part in the screening of the documentary film ”The Érpatak Model” by Benny Brunner & Keno Verseck (76 minutes, 2014).
The film screening will be followed by a discussion with one of the authors of the film, the journalist Keno Verseck, and with the political scientist Ovidiu Gherasim-Proca.
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Prosper Center AW 2016 exhibition: May 23 - June 16, 2016 /
Opening: Monday, May 23, 8 pm
Schedule: Tuesday - Sunday, 10 am - 4 pm
Guided tours: May 24 - 28, June 8 - 9, starting with 4 pm
tranzit.ro/ Iași
Al. Lăpușneanu St. 7-9
On the occasion of the International Festival of Education (FIE) 2016, tranzit.ro/ Iași organizes a series of events that aim to promote and popularize contemporary art from Iași: Prosper Center AW 2016 exhibition, guided tours/ propaganda walks, the map of venues dedicated to contemporary art.
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Launch of the new collection: Saturday, 16th of April 2016, 7:30 pm
Venue: Sala Judo a Sălii Polivente, Palat Street no. 2, Iași
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Februarie 2016
tranzit. ro/ Iași,
Str. Al. Lăpușneanu 7-9
Un nou proiect al artistului Andrei Dinu / Prosper Center va începe în cadrul unei rezidențe a acestuia desfășurată la tranzit. ro/ Iași.
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A project by: Nebojsa Milikic
February 2016 - January 2017
tranzit. ro/ Iași,
Al. Lăpușneanu St. 7-9
Depository of the Initiative for the Petite Bourgeois Party in Iași is a project by the Belgrade based cultural worker Nebojsa Milikic in collaboration with tranzit. ro/ Iași. For the duration of almost an year it will be explored the state and the manifestations of the petite bourgeois ideologies, politics and practice.
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tranzit. ro/ Iasi, România and Skaftfell, Seydisfjordur, Iceland /
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Concept space and single-series furniture set for the COROD CHESS CLUB /
Inauguration: Tuesday, 11 August 2015, 10:00 am
Corod Culture Club
Str. Ștefan cel Mare, Nr. 248
Corod Village, Galați County
tranzit.ro/ Iasi hereby announces the launch of young artist Ionuţ Toma, part of the first chess club opened in the rural environment in the region of Moldavia.
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Performance and video installation /
Simona Dumitriu & Ramona Dima
Performance and video installation
Sunday, July 19, 4 pm. – 8 pm.
Locations: tranzit.ro/ Iași (7-9, Al. Lăpușneanu Street) and Mircea cel Bătrân district, on the shore of the Nicolina river, close to its confluence with the Bahlui river.
tranzit.ro/ Iași invites you to join in a project by Simona Dumitriu and Ramona Dima, consisting of two superimposed components: a video screening at our space on Lăpușneanu Street and a long duration performance taking place at the same time on the shores of the Nicolina river, at its confluence with the river Bahlui.
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VIDEO-FORUM ǀ The video collection of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) in Iași /
REPUBLICA CINEMA, Iași
4 p.m.
10th of July 2015
„November” (2004)
„Lovely Andrea” (2007)
„In Free Fall” (2013)
Marius Babias, the director of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) will give us a brief note on the importance of this collection.
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January - February 2015 /
tranzit. ro/ Iași
Al. Lăpușneanu Street 7-9
2015 debuts with a new residency of Vancouver-based international Canadian curator Jesse Mckee. He will continue this chapter of tranzit. ro/ Iaşi regarding the residency program venture in our city.
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January – February 2015 /
tranzit. ro/ Iaşi,
7-9 Al. Lăpuşneanu Street
Over the past two years, tranzit. ro/ Iaşi managed to acquire a selection of books – which did not necessarily follow a precise concept – in order to create a small-scale public library related to contemporary art and curating...
Jesse McKee is invited to develop the new series in the frame of tranzit. ro/ Iași library program consisting in six reading groups sessions with the participants from Iaşi.
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A workshop with and for Andreas Fogarasi and Christian Mayer /
Together with: Luminița Apostu, Dan Acostioaei, Florin Bobu, Delia Bulgaru, Bogdan Chelariu, Cezar Lăzărescu, Sorana Lupu, Cristina Moraru, Cristian Nae, Andrei Pripasu, Alex Tănăuceanu and Ionuț Toma.
tranzit. ro/ Iași has organised for two days a marathon event, with a semi-public character, with no photographic documentation. Projection and memory were the main instruments used in order to design and later to reconstitute the 12 tours made in pairs, 1:1. The twelve "guides" (artists, curators, theorists, one architect and one translator from Iași) offered one tour each to one or the other of the two invited artists, the latter being accompanied, as a result on six personal propaganda walks.
Originally designed as a propaganda service that tranzit. ro/ Iaşi could offer its guests, this institutional practice takes one step further and becomes externalised, thus creating infinite possibilities of imagining an urban space, both for the hosts and the guests.
The propaganda walks were designed for the first time as an institutional practice by Livia Pancu, on the occasion of the ENPAP - European Network for Public Art Producers meeting organised by the Vector Association in Iaşi in 2011.
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April – May 2014 /
GUEST TEACHER is an informal service suited to enrich current academic curricula of art students and other young artists living and working in Iași. It encourages a horizontal approach on education that focuses on dialogue and peer-to-peer reviews together with contemporary art professionals.
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March – May 2014 /
A new project will start with the residency of Bucharest-based international Romanian artist Cristina David. She will inaugurate in March the newest chapter of tranzit. ro/ Iaşi regarding the residency program venture in our city. This invitation was sent after the encounter with her application for the AiR programme of tranzit and the ERSTE Foundation at MuseumsQuartier - 2014, a project that tranzit. ro/ Iaşi is very keen to produce in Iaşi. Cristina will collaborate for this project with the Danish writer Mikkel Rosengaard. Being interested a priori in the "democracy" of the "openness of calls" in the arts domain, tranzit. ro/ Iaşi is thus trying to question this issue both as its own practice, as well as the others' practice in the art world.
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*THEME OF THIS EDITION: MATTERS OF METHOD* /
SALON VIDEO and TRANZIT.RO/ IAȘI are launching an open call for video and sound works. These will be displayed in the frame of the fourth edition of salonvideo, which will take place in Iași, Romania in December 2013.
Guest curator: Luminița Apostu
Deadline for submitting works: *November 20th 2013*
*THEME OF THIS EDITION: MATTERS OF METHOD*
When speaking about any type of action, be it physical or mental, an immediate transcription makes us describe it as a method. There are goals to be attained (however frivolous or blurry they might be) and an initial situation to start from. The method always develops in between these two. But what happens when the steps to take are not so clear, when the goal is lacking clarity or it even seems to be irrelevant? What motivates the use of a method and what feeds it?
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New and old sounds: rec/mix/make and speak them all /
New and old sounds: rec/mix/make and speak them all
Noise and electronic music, an anthology
Guy Marc Hinant / Sub Rosa (BE), lecture & listening
Saturday May 25, 7.30 p.m. (duration : 60 min)
at tranzit.ro/ Iaşi
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An event conceived by Anamaria Pravicencu /
New and old sounds: rec/mix/make and speak them all with Sillyconductor
Saturday May18, 7 p.m.
at tranzit.ro/ Iași
Starting this month, tranzit.ro/ Iaşi invites you for a series of events conceived and coordinated by Anamaria Pravicencu. With this new series, tranzit.ro/ Iaşi is trying to connect to a variety of manifestations of contemporary culture.
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