From Urban Utopias to Hand-made Urbanism
Workshop conceived and realized with Ștefan Rusu
July 17-20, 2023 @ tranzit.ro/ Iasi
Address: GreenHouse, Str. St. Athanasius no. 25, Iasi
Between July 17-20, we invite you to Iași to participate, in person, in an intensive workshop that will take place over the course of four whole days, a workshop designed and realized together with the artist Stefan Rusu. This is intended to be a formula through which the practice we know as "paper architecture" can be updated.
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“Telephone: Communication Technology & Communicating Technology” – Summer School
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
14-20th of September 2023
Câmpu Cetăţii, Mureş County
The school is intended for a mixed group of students from both STEM fields and the humanities who share an interest in the critical study of technology and in understanding how technology works. Our goal is to bring together different perspectives from these two spheres of intellectual life, usually separated by an artificial divide, viewing the technology through a philosophical, social, and cultural lens while maintaining a rigorous understanding of its workings.
To sign up, please send your letter of intent to telefonulfarafir@gmail.com until the 14th of August.
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Collaborative and Engaging Activism in Contemporary Indian Art: Notes on Agrarian Distress
Public presentation /
Public presentation: Collaborative and Engaging Activism in Contemporary Indian Art: Notes on Agrarian Distress
By PREETI KATHURIA, PhD Researcher, Department of Art History, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
15th of July 2023, 7.00 p.m.
tranzit.ro/ Iasi
Adress: GreenHouse, Str. Sf. Atanasie nr. 25, Iași
”Contemporary art offers an infinite anthology on issues of significance. Artists represent diverse voices and perspectives, which not only define their niche art practices but may also have social underpinnings. Artistic practices that combine creativity with strategic planning, that aim at spreading awareness to create an impact and/or bring about a change are considered activist in nature. One very popular example is the Guerrilla Girls who choose art as a medium to fight against gender bias and racism that persists within the art world. In New York, 1985, the masked group of women created posters and public letters questioning the existing norms and brought a new awareness on discrimination. Another globally recognised artist-activist from China is Ai Wei Wei, whose art is a reflection of his absolute distrust in the manipulative and corrupt political system of his country.
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Carrier Bag Walks III: Snagov Forest
with Aslıhan Demirtaş, KHORA
Saturday, 8 July 2023, 11 to 5 p.m.
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life, Siliștea Snagovului
GPS Coordinates
Gathering has been and still is a steady and peaceful act which makes the world go round. In gathering, one practices the “arts of noticing” (Anna Tsing). It involves the noticing of seeds, roots, growth, transformations, decay, cycles, beginnings and ends, differences and diversity. A container, a bag, a vessel is made to hold everything together – entangled, assembled and collected.
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ANTIDOXA_3 – Reading Group GMT
Friday, 7th of July, 2023, 6 pm.
tranzit.ro/Cluj, Napoca str, no 16, 1st floor, Cluj Napoca
On the third edition of ANTIDOXA, where each month we read a text from Gáspár Miklós Tamás’ book “Antitézis” together, we discussed the text “Postfascism, postscript: preliminary theses for a system of fear”. This time the discussion was led by Botond Szilágyi. The language of these events is Hungarian.
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Now the impulse is to live! Timișoara Edition
An exhibition organised in the frame of the project C4R (Cultures for Resilience), by tranzit.ro, in collaboration with Atelier d'Architecture Autogérée (FR), Casco Art Institute (NL), Nethood (CH), in partnership with Minitremu Association (RO) and supported by the Creative Europe Program of the European Commission.
2 – 15 July 2023
Riverside Pavilion / Children’s Park Ion Creangă, Timișoara
A research exhibition comprising documentation produced in the C4R activities, as well as artworks and documents related to a localised understanding of resilience. The first edition of the exhibition took place in July 2022 in Bucharest, moving to Sofia in September 2022 in an adapted version and with some works presented in premiere. The third edition in Timișoara shows a selection of works from the previous two editions, alongside new contributions that respond to the context of the project and to Minitremu Art Camp #8 intended for high-school students.
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Jaana Kokko – artist in residency in Bucharest and at the Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life, Siliștea Snagovului
26 June – 5 July 2023
As part of the ABC project, tranzit.ro/București hosts the residency of Jaana Kokko.
Jaana Kokko is an artist, filmmaker and educator based in Helsinki, having her background in arts and economics. In her practice she is now in the search of the common: the emergent need for the change that is starting from our practices of art making, learning and being together.
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Earth Architecture Workshop
Participatory workshop on traditional building materials, presentation and observational walks of local architecture.
Facilitated by Jelica Jovanović (architect)
Saturday, 17 June 2023, 12 to 6 p.m.
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life, Siliștea Snagovului
GPS Coordinates
The earth architecture workshop is organized in the framework of ABC project to facilitate an exchange of knowledge and skills related to the possibilities of using traditional building materials and techniques and local material resources through a sustainable and ethical practice. With hands-on activities of preparing, mixing and testing earth materials (mud plasters, mortars, adobe and hybrid construction techniques), along with discussions and walks in the nearby area, the workshop is intended to create a space for sharing technical knowledge, experiences, and working possibilities, drawing from the work of The Summer School of Architecture in Rogljevo and the plan of building the Experimental Station. The Summer School is an informal alternative educational platform developed in 2010 by Jelica Jovanović and the Group of Architects (GA) to restore and preserve cultural assets (wine cellars) in Serbia together with the involvement of a group of students and with the active cooperation of the local community.
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GMT / The Other Pole / The End of the World I.
– Book Release /
14.06.2023, 6 pm.
tranzit.ro/Cluj, Napoca str, no 16, 1st floor, Cluj Napoca
tranzit.ro/Cluj is organizing a roundtable discussion on the occasion of the release of two new collected volumes by Gáspár Miklós Tamás. The books are published by Kijárat and Kalligram, and edited by Balázs Sipos.
Roundtable participants:
Árpád Kulcsár, bycicle messenger;
Boróka Parászka, journalist, Radio Târgu Mureş, HVG;
Attila Szigeti, philosopher, Hungarian Institute of Philosophy, UBB;
Botond Szilágyi, doctoral candidate, Hungarian Institute of Philosophy, UBB.
Moderator: Balázs Sipos, scholar, translator.
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Field trip and workshop with the POST MA Programme from the Latvian Art Academy
13 June 2023
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
Siliștea Snagovului
tranzit.ro/Bucuresti is welcoming a group of students and their tutors, from one of the most experimental MAs in the Baltic countries, the POST programme at the Latvian Art Academy in Riga. During their trip to Romania, facilitated by curator and tutor Corina Apostol, they will spend one day at the Station, exploring the surroundings and discussing topics formulated by the Station’s context, such as water scarcity, biodiversity preservation, migration of plant and animal species, sustainable food systems, as well as models of collective ownership and self-management. The Cosmos Garden at the Station will serve as a case study for some of these topics.
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Forever – is composed of Nows –
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life, Siliștea Snagovului
GPS Coordinates
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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ANTIDOXA_2 – Reading group GMT
09.06.2023, 6 pm.
tranzit.ro/Cluj, Napoca str, no 16, 1st floor, Cluj Napoca
On the second edition of ANTIDOXA, where each month we read a text from Gáspár Miklós Tamás’ book “Antitézis” together, we discussed the text “Dawn contemplation on communism and more”. This time the discussion was led by András Borbély. The language of these events is Hungarian.
The reading circle is a collaboration between tranzit.ro/Cluj, ujszem.org and Critical Theory and Multicultural Studies Master’s Program (UBB).
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