Silent Spring
We build, we repair, we plant, we talk. /
21, 28 March,
4, 25 April 2026
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
Int. Primaverii 10, Silistea Snagovului village
In 1962, environmentalist Rachel Carson was publishing her book, Silent Spring, which was thoroughly documenting and denouncing the devastating effects of DDT and other chemicals used intensively as pesticides after WWII. The book raised the awareness on how synthetic pesticides kill indiscriminately insects, birds, soil, and eventually people, while only making stronger the pests against which they are designed to work, and became fundamental for the environmental movement in the United States and worldwide.
Since then, some small victories were obtained, in phasing out chemicals such DDT, or in preventing big polluting projects from being implemented, and yet, the losses were much more substantial and we continue to count them, as toxic chemical agents return in force on the agricultural field and to the field of strategic weapons in current wars.
We can still hear the birds at the Station, and in the past five years, we brought back insects unseen anywhere on the nearby lands of monocultures. While they are still there, we invite you to listen to them and to each other, during a series of spring gatherings, with seasonal work, with collective cooking, and with discussions about whichever future we might have left.
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Merve Bedir: Scaffolds for the Common
Living Thought series /
Thursday, 29 January
17:00 - 19:00
The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant (Sala Noua Galerie)
Entrance from Str. Monetăriei 3
The conversations in the Living Thought series continues througout January to May 2026, part of the programme Cultivators of Life organized by tranzit.ro/Bucharest.
Coordinated by Ovidiu Tichindeleanu, the conversations in Living Thought aim to introduce contemporary scholars and artists who are working in the emerging field of knowledge and practices relating to land, to indigenous/ancestral knowledges and eco-social realities, and who are proposing not only reviews of problems, but visionary alternative paths. Continuing of the ongoing work of the Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life, the intellectual conversations in Living Thought are tools of conviviality aiming to spark the radical imagination needed to change our relations to culture, to re-orient our sense of the world, and to regain an ethical life outside the ongoing war on life.
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Morana Miljanović: The Ship Community and the World to Come
Friday, 23 January
17:00 - 19:00
The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant (Sala Noua Galerie)
Entrance from Str. Monetăriei 3
The conversations in the Living Thought series continues througout January to May 2026, part of the programme Cultivators of Life (2025-2026) organized by tranzit.ro/Bucharest.
Coordinated by Ovidiu Tichindeleanu, the conversations in Living Thought aim to introduce contemporary scholars and artists who are working in the emerging field of knowledge and practices relating to land, to indigenous/ancestral knowledges and eco-social realities, and who are proposing not only reviews of problems, but visionary alternative paths. Continuing of the ongoing work of the Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life, the intellectual conversations in Living Thought are tools of conviviality aiming to spark the radical imagination needed to change our relations to culture, to re-orient our sense of the world, and to regain an ethical life outside the ongoing war on life.
Morana Miljanović: The Ship Community and the World to Come.
Drawing on her double background as human rights lawyer and ship captain/skipper, including on refugee search and rescue missions as well as the Sumud Flotila, Morana Miljanović shares her reflections on the daily lived solidarity as a source of political reinvention. Could the ship community be a prefiguration of the possible world to come, beyond the violences of empires and nation-states? What spaces could still host a politics based on promises made by the people to the people, and what projects of organization are able to rely on joy as a political category? What are the current challenges and what was achieved in the counter-pedagogy of the Global Sumud Flotila?
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Andrei Arion: Rehearsal of Usefulness
tranzit.ro/București and The Last Archive present:
Andrei Arion: Rehearsal of Usefulness
21 December 2025, 1-4 p.m.
A temporary intervention at the Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
Int. Primaverii no. 10, Silistea Snagovului village
GPS Coordinates
While we build the infrastructure at the Station, we also reflect on what expressions and moods of art we want to present on the place. We still keep a contact with the artistic scene in Bucharest, an important part of it focused on studio-based practices, and we try to challenge the artists to see what is the potential of their works when taken out from the (comfortable) framework of the city and its gallery spaces. Outside the sphere of Arte Útil, community engaged or socially engaged forms of art, and even with land art only as a far-away reference, in a context where producing objects is still very much the scope of visual artists, how can you make a work of art useful, without instrumentalizing it and without forcing on the artist an exit from their practice in an abrupt way? We proposed to Andrei Arion to imagine a work for the Station, which can function as a lightning protector. Most structures on the place are multi-functional, can we give an art work that possibility too? What the artist responded with is for sure an art work – yet the function of usability is something to be tested, rehearsed.
Andrei Arion (born in 1996) works with sculpture, installations, and drawing. His inspirations range from games to daily observations of surroundings. These influences help create a unique atmosphere and shape his work. He started his artistic practice by converting boxes into wall pieces, distorting familiar objects into unusable ones.
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Living Thought Conversations
Yasmeen Al-Qaisi & Sujatro Ghosh: Nourishment, Kinship, and Hope /
Friday, 5 December 2025, 6-8 pm
The Legacy, Gazelei Str. 44, Bucharest
Sujatro Ghosh explores hunger not as absence but as political construction, tracing the afterlives of the Bengal Famine of 1943 in contemporary land struggles from India. Through the cultural significance of Annapurna, understood not as a distant goddess of nourishment but as a cultural framework, nourishment is seen as a right and as something political, spiritual, and relational, while rice as an archive and cosmological element. The result is a form of political theory connected to the global food sovereignty struggles, one that is inviting practices of learning from each other through land, care, community, and shared abundance. Yasmeen Al-Qaisi shares reflections, sounds and voices from a unique trajectory of finding and carefully relating to sources of nurturing and communion, by listening and learning from the wise grandmother from Teleorman and from night workers, from Ottoman and Arabic legacies, from peatlands in Lithuania, mines in Brazil, and the cohabitation with storks.
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Living Thought Conversations
Aldo Ramos: On Rooted Thought /
Wednesday, 3 December 2025, 6-8 pm
The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Sala Acvariu
Monetăriei Str. 3, Bucharest
The current existential and planetary crisis underscores the need to envision other ways of understanding what goes on in the world and the need to relate differently to Earth and the other. Aldo Ramos questions in his work, in conversation with indigenous thought: If our thoughts are threads on a larger weaving, a fabric that shapes our reality, then what is the fabric our thoughts are woven into? How can we root our thoughts in the fabric that sustains life and us?
Aldo Ramos (born 1986, Mexico). Aldo is using art as a platform to promote pluriversal rather than universal knowledge. His practice is a service, a retribution to Earth that is shaped by the experience of listening and encourages relational ways of being with the Earth as re-existence. His practice is directed towards social healing by facilitating spaces for the practice of ancestral knowledges. In his practice, relationality is more important than the work itself. Aldo has established a connection through his practice with other people who aspire to construct alternatives to the current system. He also co-founded Pluriversity Umunukunu (Pluriversity Weavers), together with the Iku (Arhuaco), who are considered living seeds of hope in other possible worlds. Aldo is a co-founder of the Weaving Realities collective, with which he organizes performances and workshops by thinking-feeling with living Earth. He currently lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Areej Ashhab: The Rain-making Flag (راية الاستسقاء)
Saturday, 29 November 2025
An intervention at the Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
Int. Primăverii 10, Siliștea Snagovului village, jud. Ilfov
The Rain-making Flag (راية الاستسقاء) is an offering from the land of Palestine to the desertifying land of the Station in Romania, inspired by traditional rain-making rituals, where seasonal flowers and traditional practices call for rain. Dyed with natural earth pigments, the flag transforms in the rain, one message fading as the other emerges.
The intervention takes place as part of the actions organized by the cultural workers of L’Internationale to mark International Day of Solidarity with the People of Palestine.
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Cultural Workers of L’Internationale mark International Day of Solidarity with the People of Palestine
On 28 and 29 November 2025, we the cultural workers of L’Internationale, a European confederation of museums, universities and arts organisations, are marking International Day of Solidarity with the People of Palestine with our friends and allies.
We are outraged and devastated by the relentless suffering, killing and dehumanisation of the Palestinian people, despite the so-called ceasefire. We see the complete destruction and looting of Gaza’s cultural infrastructure, including the annihilation of museums and cultural sites. As cultural workers, we struggle to continue our work in a time when basic rights and respect for life are ignored and constantly under attack.
We join the international call for solidarity with Palestinians. We must heed the call of Palestinians and raise our voices. We must keep the conversation alive, sustain the boycott, and pressure our governments to disinvest and impose sanctions. To the Palestinian people we say: You are not alone. The world is bearing witness.
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Living Thought Conversations
Areej Ashhab: On Material Losses and Returns /
Friday, 28 November 2025, 6-8 pm
Rezidența9, Ion Luca Caragiale 32, Bucharest
Across Palestine’s hills and valleys, plants, soil and stone hold memory both materially and intergenerationally: the prickly-pear hedges that redraw erased village boundaries, remnants of lime pits that once held fires for transforming stone into plaster, or the scattered earths of construction sites once kneaded and shaped into everyday objects. While these materials might fade into the background, they carry the imprints of loss as well as the capacities for return.
In this talk, Areej Ashhab reflects on how her work with land-based collectives and material practices cultivates ecologies of continuity—ways of working that persist through interruption, transmit knowledge across generations, and reorient our relation to place. Moving through walking-based research, arboreal histories, and recent inquiries into material archiving, she traces how engagement with the land can activate submerged histories, build communal infrastructures of care, and imagine futures in the midst of escalating settler colonial violence and dispossession.
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Rendezvous with the Spring Entrance Community
Wednesday, 26 November 2025, 6-8 pm
The Romanian Order of Architects
Pictor Arthur Verona 19, Bucharest
We invite you to the closing event of the project Shelter for collective dreaming / Adăpost pentru vremuri incerte, in which members of ASK (Amaranth Seed Kollektive) will present the activities of the community, the mobile shelters built within the project framework, and the connecting events organized over three months with local and international guests.
The scope of the rendezvous is to socialize the activities of the community to an urban audience and to open up a dialog on transdisciplinary practices that combine art with ecology, architecture, manual work, collaboration and translocal dialogue to shape an ethical and sustainable artistic community.
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Shelter for collective dreaming / Adăpost pentru vremuri incerte
Saturday, 8 November
11:30 – 17:30
Spring Entrance Community from Siliștea Snagovului:
-The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
- ASK (Amaranth Seed Kollective)
-Fundația Trei frasini/Three Ashes
Programme of the day:
11:30-12:30 – Introduction to the artistic interventions realised within the project, by ASK members: Dan Vezentan, Mihai Mitran, Mihaela Moldovan, Atelier Ad Hoc (Daria Oancea & George Marinescu), Eduard Constantin
12:30-14:30 – Presentations by Mădălina Brașoveanu, Dan Perjovschi, Szilard Miklos, followed by a discussion moderated by Raluca Voinea
14:30-15:30 – Lunch prepared by Diana Voicu
15:30-17:30 – Presentation and discussion with Ștefan Rusu
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Shelter for collective dreaming / Adăpost pentru vremuri incerte
Saturday, 25 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
Eugenia Morpurgo (Venice): Intentional Uncertainties. Biobased materials between caring and extractive practices.
12:00 – 14:00
The increasingly pressing ecological crisis requires design to question dominant production models, moving towards the use of biobased materials and the reorganisation of local and circular supply chains. With my work, I argue that such strategies, based on the principle of substitution, are not sufficient unless accompanied by a shift away from systems based on certainty in favour of approaches capable of embracing uncertainty as a necessary condition for embedding production within complex ecologies. Looking at plant and animal-based materials samples, we will critically discuss concepts such as regeneration, renewability, circularity, and bioregionalism, exploring how commoning practices allow us to embrace intentional uncertainties together.
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