Forever – is composed of Nows –
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life, Siliștea Snagovului
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In this present in which the future is almost cancelled, #solarpunk imagines a way to be together based on other options than denial or despair. In this speculative imaginary, manifested as sci-fi literary and artistic forms, and rapidly expanding in multiple forms of popular culture, the solar, understood as renewable energy, meets punk as form of self-organisation, thus representing a trend in discontinuity with genres like cyberpunk, dieselpunk or steampunk.
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Zero Point Summer School – Turning points, spaces and utopias
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION /
6-11th of August 2023,
Vármező/Câmpu Cetăţii, Mureş county, Romania
How do we imagine the collapse of our familiar world, the zero-point of social and personal life? What do we think about the built environment and power systems that seem unbreakable? What learned and inherited stereotypes is our social and creative imagination captive to? The idea for the Zero Point Summer School was born out of a critique of two radical endpoints - apathy and blind trust - with the stated ambition that participants in the program would formulate new responses, or even utopias, by examining the built environment and urban planning practices in the context of social crisis situations.
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ANTIDOXA – Reading group GMT
5th May 2023, 6 pm.
tranzit.ro/Cluj, Napoca,
str, no 16, 1st floor, Cluj Napoca
"The desirable goal of politics can be defined in philosophical terms by reflecting on what is Evil, the root cause of human suffering." (New Eastern European Left)
There are many opinions about the thinking of Gáspár Miklós Tamás. Is there a political truth to be gleaned from his writings that goes beyond opinions? Once a month, we read a text from Gáspár Miklós Tamás' book “Antitézis” together, interpret it, discuss and debate it.
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ABC project – Mapping Session
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life, Siliștea Snagovului
May – July 2023
With Iuliana Dumitru and Adelina Ivan
The Experimental Station is slowly growing – with more than 80 species planted in the Cosmos Garden; with Demeter, a bread oven made by poet and gardener V. Leac using found and gifted local bricks; with raised beds of vegetables and medicinal plants; and with an invasion of turnips. Despite unpredictable weather conditions, our frequency to commute between the city and the project site increased, together with a familiarity of the surroundings and closeness with our (non)human neighbors.
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Demetra, the bread oven
Built for the Station by V. Leac /
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life, Siliștea Snagovului
A traditional oven in the garden is a place to celebrate the harvest, the beginning and end of seasons (as unpredictable as they have become), to gather people around its fire and fresh smell of baking bread, to provide food, stories and shelter.
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Reading Group: Ways of Organisation
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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Working again with Jens Haaning
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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Questo Anonimato E’ Sovversivo/ (This Anonymity is subversive) - performance
– a project by Ruben Montini /
04th of April, 2023 – 6-8 pm.
05th of April, 2023 – 10-12 am.
tranzit. ro/Cluj, Napoca Street, no. 16, 1st. floor,
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Questo Anonimato E’ Sovversivo (This Anonymity is subversive) is the project of Italian artist Ruben Montini. It consisted of a journey through countries of the European Union that the artist carried out together with photographer Ela Bialkowska. In Romania the project was hosted by tranzit. ro/Cluj.
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Lady Demeter, giver of splendid gifts*
Practical workshop for the building of a traditional oven, with V. Leac /
Saturday, 1 April 2023, 11 am – 6 pm
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life, Siliștea Snagovului
Coordonates
Access: by car via DN1 or A3; by bus, 446 line, departure from Piața Presei Libere, get off at Pescari stop.
A traditional oven in the garden is a place to celebrate the harvest, the beginning and end of seasons (as unpredictable as they have become), to gather people around its fire and fresh smell of baking bread, to provide food, stories and shelter.
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SZEMinárium – workshops organised by új szem magazine
31st of March 2023, 4-8 pm.
21st of April 2023, 4-8 pm.
tranzit.ro/Cluj, Napoca Street, no. 16, 1st. floor
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Starting with March 2023, tranzit.ro/Cluj hosts SZEMinárium, the self-improvement group of új szem magazine for students in Cluj Napoca.
új szem is a social, cultural and critical platform, an online magazine that continues the work of szem magazine (2015-2021).
More information: https://ujszem.org/
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The appeal of hitting rock bottom: International Relations and the notion of a point zero
Lecture by Gergely Romsics /
Thursday, 30 March 2023, 7 PM.
Moderator: Tibor Toró
Thinking about various “point zero” moments in international history is rooted in a venerable and long-standing tradition. The traditional assumption, according to which a global point zero would constitute a return to the „state of nature”, a moment of anarchical self-help and violence, has been superseded in the 20th century by theorizing about the potential of such a point zero to overcome difficult legacies of power politics, opening a new vista for constructing an international utopia, a Cosmopolis or “world city” of universal rights and security. Such legacies and hopes clashed in 1918-1919, as World War I drew to a close and the Paris Peace Conference was preparing to convene, and again from 1943 onwards as planning began about a new Europe and a new world after the elimination of the Nazi, fascist and imperial Japanese threats. 1989 brought about a return to utopian thinking about „overcoming” anarchy and insecurity in the international system, a process conceptualized in surprisingly similar terms to patterns of thought familiar from 1918-1919.
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A space just for her/ Un spațiu doar al ei
Exhibition organised by Tampons and pads for all / Absorbante pentru toate / /
8 - 31 March 2023
tranzit. ro/ Iași
Adress: GreenHouse, Street. Sf. Atanasie no. 25, Iasi
Artists:
Ilinca Popescu, Tanasă Andreea, Ioana Rusu, Mihaela Lungu, Amalia Vornicu, Ana Stoica, Olga Măciuca, Diana Pavel, Catinca Sofrone, Mia Talpău
A space just for her is an exhibition organized by the Absorbante pentru toate / Tampons and pads for all collective in the tranzit. ro/ Iași space, as part of the Women's Solidarity Festival in Iasi from March 8-12. The exhibition can be visited until March 31.
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Zero Point Summer School – Turning points, spaces and utopias
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION /
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