Interregnum Here & Now: Post-Communist Collapse, Planetary Crisis, and Emancipatory Resolve
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Interregnum Here & Now: Post-Communist Collapse, Planetary Crisis, and Emancipatory Resolve
April 16–18, 2026, Cluj- Napoca
Deadline for applications: February 8, 2026
Following the 2024 „Polycrisis across Divides” conference, the next edition of the Historical Materialism Cluj/Kolozsvár conference has released its call for participation.
„Interregnum Here & Now: Post-Communist Collapse, Planetary Crisis, and Emancipatory Resolve” will take place in Cluj-Napoca between April 16–18, 2026.
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Silent Spring
We build, we repair, we plant, we talk. /
21, 28 March,
4, 25 April 2026
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
Int. Primaverii 10, Silistea Snagovului village
In 1962, environmentalist Rachel Carson was publishing her book, Silent Spring, which was thoroughly documenting and denouncing the devastating effects of DDT and other chemicals used intensively as pesticides after WWII. The book raised the awareness on how synthetic pesticides kill indiscriminately insects, birds, soil, and eventually people, while only making stronger the pests against which they are designed to work, and became fundamental for the environmental movement in the United States and worldwide.
Since then, some small victories were obtained, in phasing out chemicals such DDT, or in preventing big polluting projects from being implemented, and yet, the losses were much more substantial and we continue to count them, as toxic chemical agents return in force on the agricultural field and to the field of strategic weapons in current wars.
We can still hear the birds at the Station, and in the past five years, we brought back insects unseen anywhere on the nearby lands of monocultures. While they are still there, we invite you to listen to them and to each other, during a series of spring gatherings, with seasonal work, with collective cooking, and with discussions about whichever future we might have left.
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Fellowships for Curators and Artists at Salzburg Summer Academy 2026
CALL for APPLICATIONS now open until March 15 /
The Fellowships for Curators and Artists at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg are part of ERSTE Foundation’s educational program and its long-term endeavour to support and strengthen contemporary art especially in the region of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. The fellowship program is realized together with ERSTE Foundation’s long-time cooperation partners from tranzit, Igor Zabel Association and Kontakt Collection. Kontakt Collection collaborates with the Zagreb based WHW Akademija.
ERSTE Foundation offers fourteen fellowships for young artists and emerging curators from Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine to take part in a two-week course of their choice at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg 2026.
Every summer some 300 students from more than 50 countries participate in around 20 classes at the Salzburg Summer Academy. Well-known artists, curators and critics from all over the world offer courses focusing on topical questions of art production, as well as curatorial practice and writing about art.
Participants may choose a one- or two-week course from the Academy’s rich programme, taking place between 20 July and 29 August 2026.
More information about the courses for curators and artists (online from 11 February 2026): https://summeracademy.at/en/courses/.
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Merve Bedir: Scaffolds for the Common
Living Thought series /
Thursday, 29 January
17:00 - 19:00
The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant (Sala Noua Galerie)
Entrance from Str. Monetăriei 3
The conversations in the Living Thought series continues througout January to May 2026, part of the programme Cultivators of Life organized by tranzit.ro/Bucharest.
Coordinated by Ovidiu Tichindeleanu, the conversations in Living Thought aim to introduce contemporary scholars and artists who are working in the emerging field of knowledge and practices relating to land, to indigenous/ancestral knowledges and eco-social realities, and who are proposing not only reviews of problems, but visionary alternative paths. Continuing of the ongoing work of the Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life, the intellectual conversations in Living Thought are tools of conviviality aiming to spark the radical imagination needed to change our relations to culture, to re-orient our sense of the world, and to regain an ethical life outside the ongoing war on life.
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Reading Seminar: Marxist Takes on Science
24 January 2026, 5 pm
Address: 51 Bogdan Petriceicu Hașdeu Street, Room H1, Cluj -Napoca
Following the reading seminars on Evald Ilyenkov and Aleksandr Bogdanov, the conveners of those seminars, Siyaves Azeri and Alex Cistelecan, will begin a new series with a first reading seminar on January 24, to be held at 51 Bogdan Petriceicu Hașdeu Street, Room H1, in Cluj-Napoca. The Reading Seminar: Marxist Takes on Science aims to provoke a discussion around the following questions:
„What distinguishes scientific knowledge-production from other forms of knowledge-production? How are scientific theories—often presented as products of individual cognition—rooted in material practices, social relations, and historically specific problem-situations? How do scientific concepts and explanations relate to real structures and mechanisms in the world? Is scientific knowledge trans-historical, or does it bear the imprint of particular social formations? How do changes in economic organization, labor processes, and technological practices shape the development of scientific knowledge?”
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Morana Miljanović: The Ship Community and the World to Come
Friday, 23 January
17:00 - 19:00
The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant (Sala Noua Galerie)
Entrance from Str. Monetăriei 3
The conversations in the Living Thought series continues througout January to May 2026, part of the programme Cultivators of Life (2025-2026) organized by tranzit.ro/Bucharest.
Coordinated by Ovidiu Tichindeleanu, the conversations in Living Thought aim to introduce contemporary scholars and artists who are working in the emerging field of knowledge and practices relating to land, to indigenous/ancestral knowledges and eco-social realities, and who are proposing not only reviews of problems, but visionary alternative paths. Continuing of the ongoing work of the Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life, the intellectual conversations in Living Thought are tools of conviviality aiming to spark the radical imagination needed to change our relations to culture, to re-orient our sense of the world, and to regain an ethical life outside the ongoing war on life.
Morana Miljanović: The Ship Community and the World to Come.
Drawing on her double background as human rights lawyer and ship captain/skipper, including on refugee search and rescue missions as well as the Sumud Flotila, Morana Miljanović shares her reflections on the daily lived solidarity as a source of political reinvention. Could the ship community be a prefiguration of the possible world to come, beyond the violences of empires and nation-states? What spaces could still host a politics based on promises made by the people to the people, and what projects of organization are able to rely on joy as a political category? What are the current challenges and what was achieved in the counter-pedagogy of the Global Sumud Flotila?
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Andrei Arion: Rehearsal of Usefulness
tranzit.ro/București and The Last Archive present:
Andrei Arion: Rehearsal of Usefulness
21 December 2025, 1-4 p.m.
A temporary intervention at the Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
Int. Primaverii no. 10, Silistea Snagovului village
GPS Coordinates
While we build the infrastructure at the Station, we also reflect on what expressions and moods of art we want to present on the place. We still keep a contact with the artistic scene in Bucharest, an important part of it focused on studio-based practices, and we try to challenge the artists to see what is the potential of their works when taken out from the (comfortable) framework of the city and its gallery spaces. Outside the sphere of Arte Útil, community engaged or socially engaged forms of art, and even with land art only as a far-away reference, in a context where producing objects is still very much the scope of visual artists, how can you make a work of art useful, without instrumentalizing it and without forcing on the artist an exit from their practice in an abrupt way? We proposed to Andrei Arion to imagine a work for the Station, which can function as a lightning protector. Most structures on the place are multi-functional, can we give an art work that possibility too? What the artist responded with is for sure an art work – yet the function of usability is something to be tested, rehearsed.
Andrei Arion (born in 1996) works with sculpture, installations, and drawing. His inspirations range from games to daily observations of surroundings. These influences help create a unique atmosphere and shape his work. He started his artistic practice by converting boxes into wall pieces, distorting familiar objects into unusable ones.
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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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Fellowships for Curators and Artists at Salzburg Summer Academy 2026
CALL for APPLICATIONS now open until March 15 /
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Interregnum Here & Now: Post-Communist Collapse, Planetary Crisis, and Emancipatory Resolve
CALL FOR CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION /
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