Book launch and debate: 'The Klaus Iohannis Era?'
Tuesday,16 December – 6 pm.
tranzit. ro/Cluj, Napoca str, no 16, 1st floor, Cluj Napoca
On December 16, starting at 6 p.m. tranzit.ro/Cluj in collaboration with Tact Publishing House is organizing a public debate and the launch of the book "The Klaus Iohannis Era?"
However difficult and problematic it may be to choose a historical milestone that marks the beginning of the political crisis that led to the rise of the far right and the 2024 elections, we must admit that the chosen periodization influences the explanation. Given the title of this book, it is clear that in what follows we will focus on the question of whether or not there is a "Klaus Iohannis era." Therefore, we believe that there is a structural link between Iohannis's terms in office and the mismanagement of the multiple crises in Romania between 2014 and 2025. What defines the period in question? What are the effects of the resulting public uncertainty? And how can we think about these transformations beyond the limits of methodological nationalism, so that we can more flexibly frame them within the coordinates of the current international polycrisis?
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Reading Seminar
Alexandr Bogdanov’s Tektology /
Friday,12 December – 6 pm.
tranzit. ro/Cluj, Napoca str, no 16, 1st floor, Cluj Napoca
On December 12 from 6 pm. at tranzit.ro/Cluj we are holding a reading seminar on Alexandr Bogdanov’s Tektology. The seminar continues the project started with last year’s Reading Ilyenkov: a critical-philosophical examination of the origins and later developments of Eastern Marxism. A prolific and original thinker, Bogdanov opened multiple paths for critical inquiry—ranging from organizational theory and proto-cybernetics to science-fiction and Proletkult—while grounding his project in a distinctive, idealist rereading of Kant. Today, Bogdanov is experiencing a renewed international interest. The seminar will explore the reasons for this resurgence and critically examine his contributions. The December edition’s topic is the managerial views of Alexandr Bogdanov.
The conveners of the seminars are Siyaveș Azeri and Alex Cistelecan, and events will be held in English.
These seminars are part of the project "Philosophy in Late Socialist Europe: Theoretical Practices in the Face of Polycrisis" (PNRR-C9-I8-CF104/15.11.2022).
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Living Thought Conversations
Yasmeen Al-Qaisi & Sujatro Ghosh: Nourishment, Kinship, and Hope /
Friday, 5 December 2025, 6-8 pm
The Legacy, Gazelei Str. 44, Bucharest
Sujatro Ghosh explores hunger not as absence but as political construction, tracing the afterlives of the Bengal Famine of 1943 in contemporary land struggles from India. Through the cultural significance of Annapurna, understood not as a distant goddess of nourishment but as a cultural framework, nourishment is seen as a right and as something political, spiritual, and relational, while rice as an archive and cosmological element. The result is a form of political theory connected to the global food sovereignty struggles, one that is inviting practices of learning from each other through land, care, community, and shared abundance. Yasmeen Al-Qaisi shares reflections, sounds and voices from a unique trajectory of finding and carefully relating to sources of nurturing and communion, by listening and learning from the wise grandmother from Teleorman and from night workers, from Ottoman and Arabic legacies, from peatlands in Lithuania, mines in Brazil, and the cohabitation with storks.
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Living Thought Conversations
Aldo Ramos: On Rooted Thought /
Wednesday, 3 December 2025, 6-8 pm
The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Sala Acvariu
Monetăriei Str. 3, Bucharest
The current existential and planetary crisis underscores the need to envision other ways of understanding what goes on in the world and the need to relate differently to Earth and the other. Aldo Ramos questions in his work, in conversation with indigenous thought: If our thoughts are threads on a larger weaving, a fabric that shapes our reality, then what is the fabric our thoughts are woven into? How can we root our thoughts in the fabric that sustains life and us?
Aldo Ramos (born 1986, Mexico). Aldo is using art as a platform to promote pluriversal rather than universal knowledge. His practice is a service, a retribution to Earth that is shaped by the experience of listening and encourages relational ways of being with the Earth as re-existence. His practice is directed towards social healing by facilitating spaces for the practice of ancestral knowledges. In his practice, relationality is more important than the work itself. Aldo has established a connection through his practice with other people who aspire to construct alternatives to the current system. He also co-founded Pluriversity Umunukunu (Pluriversity Weavers), together with the Iku (Arhuaco), who are considered living seeds of hope in other possible worlds. Aldo is a co-founder of the Weaving Realities collective, with which he organizes performances and workshops by thinking-feeling with living Earth. He currently lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Areej Ashhab: The Rain-making Flag (راية الاستسقاء)
Saturday, 29 November 2025
An intervention at the Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
Int. Primăverii 10, Siliștea Snagovului village, jud. Ilfov
The Rain-making Flag (راية الاستسقاء) is an offering from the land of Palestine to the desertifying land of the Station in Romania, inspired by traditional rain-making rituals, where seasonal flowers and traditional practices call for rain. Dyed with natural earth pigments, the flag transforms in the rain, one message fading as the other emerges.
The intervention takes place as part of the actions organized by the cultural workers of L’Internationale to mark International Day of Solidarity with the People of Palestine.
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Cultural Workers of L’Internationale mark International Day of Solidarity with the People of Palestine
On 28 and 29 November 2025, we the cultural workers of L’Internationale, a European confederation of museums, universities and arts organisations, are marking International Day of Solidarity with the People of Palestine with our friends and allies.
We are outraged and devastated by the relentless suffering, killing and dehumanisation of the Palestinian people, despite the so-called ceasefire. We see the complete destruction and looting of Gaza’s cultural infrastructure, including the annihilation of museums and cultural sites. As cultural workers, we struggle to continue our work in a time when basic rights and respect for life are ignored and constantly under attack.
We join the international call for solidarity with Palestinians. We must heed the call of Palestinians and raise our voices. We must keep the conversation alive, sustain the boycott, and pressure our governments to disinvest and impose sanctions. To the Palestinian people we say: You are not alone. The world is bearing witness.
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Living Thought Conversations
Areej Ashhab: On Material Losses and Returns /
Friday, 28 November 2025, 6-8 pm
Rezidența9, Ion Luca Caragiale 32, Bucharest
Across Palestine’s hills and valleys, plants, soil and stone hold memory both materially and intergenerationally: the prickly-pear hedges that redraw erased village boundaries, remnants of lime pits that once held fires for transforming stone into plaster, or the scattered earths of construction sites once kneaded and shaped into everyday objects. While these materials might fade into the background, they carry the imprints of loss as well as the capacities for return.
In this talk, Areej Ashhab reflects on how her work with land-based collectives and material practices cultivates ecologies of continuity—ways of working that persist through interruption, transmit knowledge across generations, and reorient our relation to place. Moving through walking-based research, arboreal histories, and recent inquiries into material archiving, she traces how engagement with the land can activate submerged histories, build communal infrastructures of care, and imagine futures in the midst of escalating settler colonial violence and dispossession.
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Theo Prodromidis, Alăgam frate, tu tuti părțâli (We're running, brother, in all directions)
new commission @tranzitiasi
Address: 25 Sf. Atanasie Street, Iași
Until January 30, 2026, @tranzitiasi will offer guided tours, upon request, about the production process of the new permanent work: Alăgam frate, tu tuti părțâli (We're running, brother, in all directions), by Theo Prodromidis.
For appointmets, please send us an email at: livia.pancu@tranzit.org
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Rendezvous with the Spring Entrance Community
Wednesday, 26 November 2025, 6-8 pm
The Romanian Order of Architects
Pictor Arthur Verona 19, Bucharest
We invite you to the closing event of the project Shelter for collective dreaming / Adăpost pentru vremuri incerte, in which members of ASK (Amaranth Seed Kollektive) will present the activities of the community, the mobile shelters built within the project framework, and the connecting events organized over three months with local and international guests.
The scope of the rendezvous is to socialize the activities of the community to an urban audience and to open up a dialog on transdisciplinary practices that combine art with ecology, architecture, manual work, collaboration and translocal dialogue to shape an ethical and sustainable artistic community.
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Aleksandr Bogdanov
Reading Seminar /
Friday, 21st of November – 6 pm.
tranzit. ro/Cluj, Napoca str, no 16, 1st floor, Cluj Napoca
On November 21st from 18:00 at tranzit.ro/Cluj we are starting a new series of reading seminars focusing on Aleksandr Bogdanov. The seminar continues the project started with last year’s Reading Ilyenkov: a critical-philosophical examination of the origins and later developments of Eastern Marxism. A prolific and original thinker, Bogdanov opened multiple paths for critical inquiry—ranging from organizational theory and proto-cybernetics to science-fiction and Proletkult—while grounding his project in a distinctive, idealist rereading of Kant. Today, Bogdanov is experiencing a renewed international interest. The seminar will explore the reasons for this resurgence and critically examine his contributions through a series of monthly reading sessions.
The conveners of the seminars are Siyaveș Azeri and Alex Cistelecan, and events will be held in English.
These seminars are part of the project "Philosophy in Late Socialist Europe: Theoretical Practices in the Face of Polycrisis" (PNRR-C9-I8-CF104/15.11.2022).
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Kicsi kozmosz by Zsuzsa Selyem
Reading workshop /
Wednesday, 19th of November 2025, 6 pm.
tranzit. ro/Cluj, Napoca str, no 16, 1st floor, Cluj Napoca
On November 19th from 18:00 at tranzit.ro/Cluj we are organizing in collaboration with Fecske Cooperative a literary reading workshop centred around Zsuzsa Selyem’s newly published Kicsi kozmosz (Little Cosmos), with the author present and moderation by Árpád Kulcsár. Fecske Cooperative is a youth initiative based on horizontality, aiming for the creation of a cultural space with democratic organizational spirit in a solidarity economy framework. The event will aim to go beyond traditional, frontal author/reader gatherings and through reading collectively fragments from the text will seek to put into discussion various aspects of our shared world, such as women’s experiences, their oppression and their many ways of resistance, how war shapes both human and non-human beings and in what ways we are connected to the non-human world in general.
The event will be held in Hungarian.
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Shelter for collective dreaming / Adăpost pentru vremuri incerte
Saturday, 8 November
11:30 – 17:30
Spring Entrance Community from Siliștea Snagovului:
-The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
- ASK (Amaranth Seed Kollective)
-Fundația Trei frasini/Three Ashes
Programme of the day:
11:30-12:30 – Introduction to the artistic interventions realised within the project, by ASK members: Dan Vezentan, Mihai Mitran, Mihaela Moldovan, Atelier Ad Hoc (Daria Oancea & George Marinescu), Eduard Constantin
12:30-14:30 – Presentations by Mădălina Brașoveanu, Dan Perjovschi, Szilard Miklos, followed by a discussion moderated by Raluca Voinea
14:30-15:30 – Lunch prepared by Diana Voicu
15:30-17:30 – Presentation and discussion with Ștefan Rusu
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