Summer school: GREEN LINE: decentralisation, decoupling, degrowth
CALL for PARTICIPATION
open until the 30th of June 2024.
The summer school take place in the period:
29 July - 4 August 2024
hypha_etc, Câmpu Cetății, Mures county
The Green Line Summer School is aimed at students interested in the video essay as a form of argumentation and communication on the one hand, and the green transition as a subject on the other. The school is open to students regardless of field of study and previous experience.
We expect students from both STEM and socio-humanities backgrounds, as well as high school seniors, to attend the school. There is no registration fee. We offer free accommodation in 4-6 bedded rooms, up to a maximum of 24 beds, plus free camping space. Travel expenses (train or bus) can be covered up to 130 RON.
Those wishing to participate are asked to send a letter of motivation by 30 June to telefonulfarafir2023@gmail.com.
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Quiet Food Sovereignity in Eaestern Europe
Lecture /
With Natalia Momonova (Ukraine/Norway)
respondent: Valer Simion Cosma (Romania)
Friday, 19th 2024, 6-8 p.m
at The National Museum of Romania Peasant (Sala Acvariu entrance from the restaurant)
Cover credits: watercolor painting by Natalia Mamonova
Feeding a growing world population with sustainably produced food has been a challenge and it became critically important in the wake of covid-19, climate change, the wars in ukraine and gaza, and the rise of the far right in europe. while politicians debate how to make our food systems more innovative and resilient, there is a solution that has been available and practised in eastern europe for decades. smallholder farming and local food networks are widespread in many post-socialist countries, but are not typically seen as sustainable alternatives to globalised industrial agriculture. meanwhile, as the example of ukraine has shown, these practices are not only environmentally friendly and sustainable, but also capable of feeding the country’s population with healthy food in peace and wartime.
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Discussion around the book Bright Ecologies with Caretto/Spagna
Saturday, 6th of July.2024, at 2. p.m
A meeting at The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
GPS Coordinates
The Italian artistic duo Caretto/Spagna will present their first monograph entitled "Bright Ecologies. Caretto/Spagna: experiences, forms, materials" which extensively traces and documents more than 20 years of their artistic research structured on research involving care, the transformation of matter and experiments in form, materialized in sculptures, site-specific installations, laboratories, residencies, actions, and collective projects based on encounter, process, gift, participation, and co-authorship. The result of a close dialogue between artists, curators, and the publisher, the publication blends a documentary approach, critical and theoretical interpretation, and a rich body of descriptions and images.
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Summer Kitchen in progress
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life,
Intrarea Primaverii no. 10, Silistea Snagovului village, north of Bucharest, Romania
GPS coordinates
Inspired by multi-functional annexes in the post-Ottoman tradition of rural Romania, Atelier Ad Hoc designed a building that is part of a core infrastructure for the Station. Part kitchen, part storage-space, including functions such as pergola for climbing plants and time indicator through an incorporated sundial, the construction is complementary to a series of eco-prototypes that serve each other to represent both tools of conviviality and ways of coexisting with the environment in a less damaging way. Thus, the kitchen will provide the space and storage for preparing food, which is to be cooked using the oven Demeter, built in 2023 from recycled bricks and clay from the area by poet V. Leac, and also the space for washing the dishes, with the grey water circulated through a phytoremediation system designed by atelier d'architecture autogérée and implemented at the Station in 2023-2024.
With the collaboration of Andrei Savonea, the kitchen structure installed this summer will receive its inside shells and outside walls this November.
If you are an architecture or design student, a carpenter, or simply someone who dreamt about assembling a kitchen without IKEA type of instructions, you are welcome to join one of the sessions in which we bring this structure closer to its final shape.
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Acting with others: collaborative practices across architecture, design, and radical pedagogies
A series of presentations followed by a discussion and dinner in the garden
With:
Floating (Berlin) / Kristin Lazarova and Jöran Mandik
El Warcha (Tunis) / Aziz Aissaoui, Radhouane Boudhraa, and Marlène Halguevache
Atelier Adhoc Community (Bucharest) / George Marinescu and Daria Oancea
Wednesday, 26 June 2024, 17:00 – 21:00
At The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
Organised under the frame of the Creative Europe project Architecture, Biodiversity, Culture [ABC]. Building ecological institutions for culture, the event brings together three self-organised practices of civic action that operate at the intersection of different disciplines through collaborative work and ways of coming together that respond to the specific conditions of each site. Driven by an interest and desire to cultivate collaborations, taking care of neighbourhood connections, building temporary urban furniture and installations with local inhabitants, or by developing potential living scenarios for marginalised urban communities, all three projects seek a new language of practice or new practices altogether for imagining and creating different forms of living.
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Residency and artistic intervention – Jaana Kokko
24 June – 3 July 2024
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
Siliștea Snagovului village
After a Gregorian calendar year, Helsinki-based artist Jaana Kokko returns to the village of Siliștea Snagovului. She is interested in gathering with the plants that are growing on the sides, taking the position of being not in the center. She asks: What are they revealing us with their hidden pigments and forms? And even more: What does it need from a garden to become a place/ space for emancipation, a place for political enlightenment?
Her search in the fields around the Station is inspired by dear places of her past, and the emotional connection to Maitohorsma, Fireweed (Ebilobium angustifolium).
The plant is very common in Finland, and it appears especially when the forests are cut clear, which is unfortunately still very common practice. One hundred years Fireweed was still rare in Central Europe, but the burning ruins of both world wars gave space for it and it started to blossom on the lands emptied by fire. The leaves of Fireweed unveil a yellow light pigment. The color gives pleasure, when it appears, it feels like a small, uncovered secret.
After her research residency at the Station last year, Jaana focuses this time on a precise task, albeit one that shows the ephemerality of being in this world. Collecting flowers and seeds from the area, while paying attention these are plentiful, she extracts the pigments from them, using the organic colours afterwards for woodcut printing. At the same time, this offers the team of the Station an occasion to learn the skill of working with plants pigments in order to further challenge the community of artists around (as well as the children in the village) on the importance of materials used in art, and of accepting the limited time an art work may exist in the world.
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Flowing Streams Residency
at The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life /
15 June – 15 July 2024
Václav Šana (The Czech Republic) has been selected to join Flowing Streams, a multi-residency project in rural areas of Romania exploring local approaches to the cultural ecology of water, organized by EUNIC Romania in collaboration with curator Adelina Luft.
At The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life at Silistea Snagovului, Václav will document and evaluate pre-selected sites from the vicinity of The Station, including Lake Snagov and other sources of ground water. He will look at the scale, social, cultural and environmental aspects of the water sources to develop an analytical documentation of the water channels through diagrams and drawings.
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Residency and artistic intervention – Darya Tsymbalyuk
June – July 2024
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
Siliștea Snagovului village
“If, following rivers and rivulets, lagoons, meadows, plavni, and forests, you keep going down southwest from the south of Ukraine, you might eventually pass over the Stația experimentală de cercetare pentru artă și viață. Perhaps, then, looking up at the sky for a second, I will catch a glimpse of you, a greeting from places that have raised me.
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ANTIDOXA_7 – Reading group GMT
13 May2024, 6 p.m
tranzit. ro/Cluj, Napoca str, no 16, 1st floor, Cluj Napoca
[The event is held in Hungarian]
„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)
„Hippies, punks, antifas.
Feather merchants and shirkers.
Niggers. Lesbians. Anarchists. Jewish commies.” (Dawn contemplation on communism and more)
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.
On the 13th of May, we will discuss "On solidarity". This time the discussion is led by Erőss Réka.
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Oberliht Association & Drujba Collective
@tranzit.ro/ Iași – traveling exhibition /
Zpace / 3rd Space studio / Stalker Garden (The House of Zemstvo, 103, Al. Șciusev St., Chisinau)
May - June 2024
Oberliht Association & Drujba Collective
@tranzit.ro/Iași is an exhibition that resulted from a collaboration between tranzitiasi and Oberliht Association back in 2023. Initially presented in September, 2023 at tranzit.ro/ Iasi, in the frame of Ways of Organisation project, this year we have decided to exhibit the works that make it up in the spaces of the House of Zemstvo and thus make it accessible to the public in Chisinău.
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Gathering into the Maelstrom
17-20 April 2024
in Venice at Sale Docks is a four-day programme curated by Institute of Radical Imagination (IRI) and Sale Docks
'Gathering into the Maelstrom' – at Sale Docks Dorsoduro 265 in Venice – is an invitation to learn to inhabit the vortex of our contemporary moment, rooting artistic production in ecological struggles, and transforming the field of contemporary art into a political territory. To generate a Museum of the Commons we must both question the toxicity that permeates institutions and, at the same time, build non-capitalistic, non-colonial, non-patriarchal, and non-anthropocentric alliances.
tranzit.ro, as a partner organisation in the Museum of the Commons project, participate to two of the events at the gathering: the Climate
17-20 April 2024
Assembly (through the presence of Adelina Luft, Eduard Constantin, Delia Bulgaru, Livia Pancu, Ovidiu Tichindeleanu and Raluca Voinea), and the Art for Radical Ecologies Manifesto book launch and panel (through the participation of Ovidiu Tichindeleanu and Raluca Voinea), both on Friday, 19 April 2024.
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REVISITING STATE SOCIALISM VIII
Thursday, 11th of April, 2024, 7 p.m
"Lucian Blaga" University Library from Sibiu/ Str. Lucian Blaga, no. 2A
tranzit. ro/Cluj in partnership with Babes Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca and "Lucian Blaga" University Library from Sibiu invites you to a lecture and discussion within the project
"Philosophy in Late Socialist Europe: Theoretical Practices in the Face of Polycrisis" on the topic of the polycrisis of the 1970s -1980 with the title
„Reframing Sovereign Power in Late Socialist Romania: Crisis, Militarism and the Nationalist Turn”.
The meeting is moderated by Ștefan Baghiu.
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ERSTE Foundation is main partner of tranzit:
