Shelter for collective dreaming / Adăpost pentru vremuri incerte
Saturday, 11 October
11:00 – 18:00
Spring Entrance Community from Siliștea Snagovului:
• The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
• ASK (Amaranth Seed Kollective)
• Fundația Trei frasini/Three Ashes
Fabiola Fiocco (Rome): Morphologies of Labour
11:00 – 13:00
More than twenty years after what has been described as the“social turn”, along with the waves of artistic and institutional experimentation and grassroots initiatives that followed, the context in which we operate has entered a renewed phase of intensified extraction and reorganisation of capital, and of the political paradigms that underpin it. Profound socio-economic and cultural shifts have reshaped the terrain of negotiation, while what were once marginal practices are repurposed to serve existing modes of production, consumption, and sociality. In this landscape, inherited binaries and conceptual frameworks from past movements, even the most recent, appear increasingly inadequate to address the complexities of labour, creativity, and collective struggle.
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Shelter for collective dreaming / Adăpost pentru vremuri incerte
Saturday, 27 September
12:00 – 19:00
Spring Entrance Community from Siliștea Snagovului:
• The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
• ASK (Amaranth Seed Kollective)
• Fundația Trei frasini/Three Ashes
Mihai Mihalcea (București): We walk, We breathe
12:00 – 14:00
We reclaim duration as common space, and we allow the air to circulate beyond the logics of productivity. This is not an exercise of mindfulness, but a form of micropolitical sabotage. I breathe, so I oppose is not a metaphor, but a life politics: every inhale is an act of refusal, every exhale a redistribution of the common space.
Lunch prepared by Diana Voicu
14:00 – 16:00
Ovidiu Țichindeleanu (Bucharest/Copenhagen) & Aldo Ramos (Mexico City/Amsterdam): A dream of water: a workshop feeling the territory
17:00 – 19:00
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Abundance. Resilience. Reconnection.
with Adina Moise at the Seeds House Garden
Saturday, September 20, 2025
Hourse 13:00 – 18:00
Intrarea Poianei 6, Domnești commune, Ilfov county
From spring to autumn, four different gardens located in close proximity to Bucharest engage in an exchange of practices and experiences in cultivating and relating, as part of the project Cultivators of Life. Starting with a spring session of exchanging seeds and documenting the sowing and growing processes, in summer and autumn each gardener opens their space to a public, invited to observe, learn and engage with the knowledge of plants and their network of relationality. Each event is choreographed following the gardens’ particular conditions and contexts, as well as each gardener’s own sensibility, expertise and experiences. The process and events are documented by three young harvesters through different media: writing (Irina Bobei), illustration (Maria Doni), and video (Gabriela Cozma).
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INSTITUTION(ING)S: GLOSSARY - OPEN CALL
About the Glossary
What does it mean to restitute and repair through the usage of languages, long excluded within institutional spaces, but are today sometimes over-represented? They are present in the museum, the gallery, the format of the exhibition, the performances, the conferences, among others.
Today, the creation of a glossary is an exercise to complement and continue to build from the work of writers, linguists, cultural workers in understanding how the politics of language is deeply inscribed in the ways we work, live with one another and define culture(s).
Languages, here, are described beyond words. They are not only verbal communication but also all the practices in which self and collective expression continues to visibilise, archive and evidence people, cultures and communities through the material, sonic, visual, cultural and bodily practices, inside and outside of the institution.
The glossary is a digital platform that will continue to reflect and think through the coexistence of contemporary cultures with the ones that are either lost, erased, endangered as they continue to be persecuted and ought to be revived — what are the languages we want to dismantle within our diverse vocabularies, or those we want to be loudly shared and acknowledged?
1. About the Open Call
For us, languages don't just mean words but relate to social and cultural practices, conviviality, collective, plural and fluid identities, emancipation, liberation and resistance. Often, they are things that cannot be translated into words — they are experiences to be lived.
The open call invites languages to be submitted to create a compilation of words /practices/actions/experiences that populate our lives. Therefore, they are sometimes dissonant or cannot be inside institutional walls. The submissions can be of both existent and new terms/practices/actions/experiences. We are creating an online resource that will be in dialogue with the broader Institution(ing)s project.
We are looking for materials that contain a multiplicity of meanings that a language cannot always encompass. The online glossary aims to be a platform that will host a plurality of these languages.
The submission can include but is not limited to: an image (such as a photograph; an archival document); an object; a song; a video; a choreography; a dish; a symbol; a drawing.
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Shelter for collective dreaming / Adăpost pentru vremuri incerte
Saturday, 13 September
13:00 – 20:00
Spring Entrance Community from Siliștea Snagovului:
• The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
• ASK (Amaranth Seed Kollective)
• Fundația Trei frasini/Three Ashes
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The Reclaimed Anthology of Flowers
E X H I B I T I O N
Carina Burghelea, Maria Chirilă, Mălina Moncea, Cristina Ostafi, Ioana Rusu, and Claudia Ungureanu
Co-curator: Mălina Moncea
Co-curator: Cristina Ostafi
Opening: Friday, 12th of September, 2025,
Time: 18:00
tranzit.ro/ Iasi,
Address: Str. Sf. Atanasie nr. 25, Iași
“The Reclaimed Anthology of Flowers brings together six artists: Carina Burghelea, Maria Chirilă, Mălina Moncea, Cristina Ostafi, Ioana Rusu, and Claudia Ungureanu, united by the desire to reconfigure the ways in which female presence is perceived, embodied, and integrated within the exhibition space. Under the curatorial guidance of Mălina Moncea and Cristina Ostafi, the project initiates a process of reflection on how institutions, curatorial discourses, and historical frameworks have sought to define and constrain women’s artistic experiences. Situated within a context in which female artists have repeatedly been positioned under the male gaze, their subjects and relevance dictated accordingly, the collective interventions of this exhibition articulate a counter-narrative: a gesture of reclamation and reappropriation of the exhibition space.
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The Earth Does Not Understand English*
Food, memory, and collective futures in Gaza, Ukraine and Jersey
With Dana Olărescu and other guests at the Cosmos Garden
Saturday, 6 September 2025
Hours: 11:00 – 18:00
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
Intr. Primăverii 10, Siliștea Snagovului village, Gruiu commune, Ilfov county
What does it mean to cultivate life in times of genocide, occupation, and ongoing attempts to eradicate both human and more-than-human forms of existence?
On the 6th of September, the Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life will host a day of conversation, co-learning, and collective cooking led by socially engaged artist Dana Olărescu and guests.
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Baran Caginli: Baking Books
Artist Talk
Friday, 5th of September, 2025,
18:30- 20:30
@tranzitiasi,
Address: Str. Sf. Atanasie nr. 25, Iași
tranzitiași is pleased to welcome artist Baran Caginli for a lecture on his artistic research and practice.
He is exploring the intersections of materiality and memory through dissected monuments in Estonia, Lithuania, Albania, Armenia and Romania in his research project. His practice engages with temporary materials such as bread, to reflect on socio-political and cultural histories. Since 2023, He has been making edible bread sculptures and shares as a performative act in various locations as part of his research.
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A World in Common(s)
From Marxist Feminism to Solidarity Economy /
18–24 August 2025,
Vármező/Câmpu Cetății (Romania)
Deadline for applications: 30 June
The purpose of this summer school is, first, to introduce theoretical frameworks such as Marxist feminism, world-systems analysis, and global labour studies to show how social reproduction is subordinated to endless capital accumulation in the capitalist world system. Second, it aims to explore what alternatives exist to this, i.e., how it is possible to engage in economic activities directly aimed at satisfying human needs.
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Upcoming: The fifth edition of Ecologies of Emancipation – Imminent horizon: fascism or imperialism?
Organizational work of the fifth edition of the Ecologies of Emancipation summer school has begun. The school will take place at the hypha_etc campsite in Câmpu Cetății, between 10-16 August 2025.
The latest political and geopolitical developments, local and global, seem to confront us with a threatening double horizon: an accelerated slide towards fascism, or an equally precipitous retreat into imperialism - with all the overlaps, complicities and continuities between them. On the one side, then, a European democratic establishment that can only articulate its immediate future by renouncing the last remnants of a distributist state and democratic appearances, in a general arms race that promises nothing but authoritarianism and austerity at home, and devastating inter-imperialist conflicts on a global scale. On the other side, a populist insurgent bloc with deep roots and complicity in the very systems and apparatuses of Euro-Atlantic democracies, which is no longer shy in displaying its assumed fascism, and which promises, just as grimly, a harsh regime of austerity and authoritarianism at home, coupled with an equally provocative and bellicose attitude abroad, only in the name of a different set of values.
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Shelter for collective dreaming / Adăpost pentru vremuri incerte
August – November 2025
Spring Entrance Community in Siliștea Snagovului:
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
ASK (Amaranth Seed Kollective)
The Three Ashes
In August, tranzit.ro/Bucharest is launching a new project which coincides with the official inauguration of two distinct entities on the land parcels around the Experimental Station: ASK (Amaranth Seed Kollective), a group formed by sound artist Mihai Mitran, artists Dan Vezentan, Mihaela Moldovan, Eduard Constantin, cultural manager and performer Maria Mora, curators Raluca Voinea, Adelina Luft, and architects George Marinescu and Daria Oancea; and the Three Ashes Association established by curator Charles Esche.
Shelter for collective dreaming proposes the co-production of a modular and mobile shelter on the land parcels of the ASK members through collective conceptualization, participation, and activation.
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The links between art and the garden
with Delia Popa in Crețești Studio-Garden
Saturday, 26 July 2025
Hours: 14:00 – 21:00
Crețești village, Vidra commune, Ilfov county
From spring to autumn, four different gardens located in close proximity to Bucharest engage in an exchange of practices and experiences in cultivating and relating as part of the project Cultivators of Life. Starting with a spring session of exchanging seeds and documenting the sowing and growing processes, in summer and autumn each gardener opens their space to a public, invited to observe, learn and engage with the knowledge of plants and their network of relationality. Each event is choreographed following the gardens’ particular conditions and contexts, as well as each gardener’s own sensibility, expertise and experiences. The process and events are documented by three young harvesters through different media: writing (Irina Bobei), illustration (Maria Doni), and video (Gabriela Cozma.
The second event brings us together to the garden-studio of artist Delia Popa, located in Crețești village, Vidra commune. Used as a space for work and conceptualization, experimentation and interrogation of the existing links between artistic practice and gardening, Crețești Studio Garden is a place where the vegetable greenhouses, mixed herbs and the shrubbery in the garden, together with paper works in pencil and ink, video or objects produced in the studio, become part of the same endeavor to situate an artistic practice in the context of the topography of the village and to research the relationship between ecological awareness, gentrification and cultivating practices. The itinerary starts with a short visit at the artist’s solo exhibition „Place of action – Crețești” at Anca Poterașu Gallery (26, Popa Soare Str.) and next to the studio-garden in Crețești where participants will visit a few objectives that make the subject of the artist’s works (the bridge, the neighbor’s house and permaculture garden, the greenhouses in the village), followed by a presentation of the studio-garden, group discussions, a video screening, a planting session of shrubs, and a collective dinner.
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Interregnum Here & Now: Post-Communist Collapse, Planetary Crisis, and Emancipatory Resolve
CALL FOR CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION /
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