Situations and commitments
Specific Aspects of the Pedagogical Turn of the 1970s in Hungary / The work of Péter Forgács, István Sinkó & István Rév and the educational films of the Balázs Béla Studio
08 December 2023-14 January 2024
Opening: 7th of December 23, 7pm.
Curator: Virag Lődi
The exhibition focuses on specific creative engagements within public education by intellectuals of the late Kádár-era in Hungary, introducing democratic and critical attitudes and methods. The exploration of media artist Péter Forgács's complex experiment in aesthetic education between 1974 and 78 constitutes the axis of the exhibited material, but another semi-illegal school workshop led by economic historian István Rév and painter István Sinkó is also evoked. The political and social contexts of these pedagogical experiments are given more depth by the inclusion of a series of educational films made at the time in the Balázs Béla Studio, also highlighting the importance and educational aspects of the studio’s social film distribution program. The exhibition treats the above cultural practices within the intersection of pedagogy and art.
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ANTIDOXA_4 – Reading group GMT
Monday, 6th of November 2023, 6 p.m
Address: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.
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Revisiting State Socialism (I)
A new series of conferences at tranzit.ro/Cluj partnered by Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj under the PNRR project Philosophy in Late Socialist Europe: Theoretical Practices in the Face of Polycrisis.
Thursday, October 26th, 2023, 6 p.m
Address: tranzit.ro/Cluj
Street.Napoca no 16, 1st floor, Cluj-Napoca
Jan Mervart, "Genealogy of Czechoslovak Stalinism"
Czechoslovak Stalinism represents a unique case within the countries of East Central Europe, because of its long duration based on the continuous legality of the Czechoslovak Communist Party. The author's focus is primarily on capturing the genealogy of Stalinism as a Gesamtkunstwerk based on the interconnectedness of individual conceptualizations, representations, and modes of communication. In doing so, he considers the central logos of Stalinism to be the dynamic that emerged from the tension between the constant fluidity of Stalinist policy and strategy, and the desire to formulate a unity of basic premises and binding rules.
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What fits into the Infinite Jest?
Conversation with Lili Kemény, writer, one of the translators of The Infinite Jest /
Moderated by Zsuzsa Selyem, writer, Associate Professor at UBB Cluj, Faculty of Letters.
Wednesday, 25.10.2023, 7 p.m.
Address: tranzit.ro/Cluj,
Napoca str, no 16, 1st floor, Cluj-Napoca
Even if it was written long time ago, David Foster Wallace's cult novel is about the now: the spectacle of politics, the destructive effects of competition, addictions, deadly entertainment, and everything that distracts us from reality. Radical realism is what the après-garde filmmaker of the roman calls a style with no silent extras: everyone's voice is heard.
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The “Telephone: Communication Technology & Communicating Technology” podcast series
The “Telephone: Communication Technology & Communicating Technology” summer school organised by tranzit.ro/Cluj took place between the 14th and 20th of September of this year in Câmpu Cetații. It was a fruitful place for dialogue between participants, guest speakers and curators. The concepts about technology and society that acted as the project's foundation were developed and refined, leading to new connections between the speakers’ topics of interest, some of which were very unexpected.
As part of the “Telephone” project, we will be releasing a podcast series, featuring the guest speakers discussing their topics with each other. The whole 6-episode series will be available by the middle of November, and the first 4 episodes are already available on the project’s Facebook page. or here.
In the 1st episode, Alin Răuțoiu interviews Irina Dumitru and Alexandru Evanghelidis, the summer school’s curators, about the project’s objectives, what the stakes of the interdisciplinary study of technology are, and what’s next for the project. The episode also takes a quick look at the topics covered by the rest of the series.
The 2nd episode features Alin Răuțoiu, Marina Oprea, and Beti Toma discussing how we read the internet, who teaches us to read it, and what internet literacy even means.
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“Cordless Telephone: Communication Technology & Communicating Technology” – Summer School at Câmpu Cetăţii
14 - 20 September 2023
Câmpu Cetăţii, Mureş County
Cordless Telephone Summer School is organized at Câmpu Cetăţii, Mureş County by tranzit.ro/Cluj in partnership with the National Institute for Research and Development in Materials Physics and Dezarticulat.
It 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.
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Ecologies of Emancipation 3rd edition: Bread, Land, Peace in Polycrisis
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
24–30.08.2023
Câmpu Cetăţii, Mureş County
Application Deadline: 23.07.2023
The third edition of the annual summer school Ecologies of Emancipation, organized by tranzit.ro/Cluj in Câmpu Cetății, Mures county, will take place between August 25 and 31 and will focus on basic human needs in the contemporary socio-political context and in the early 20th century.
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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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“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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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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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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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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