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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Mimosa Pudica. On Plants Memory
Artist Valentina Vetturi in conversation with horticultural engineer Maria Raicu /
Mimosa Pudica is an ongoing performative research by artist Valentina Vetturi and various collaborators, dedicated to the study of memory across vegetal and digital ecologies.
The main research question is how studying alongside plants about their memory could inform principles of digital ecologies.
Saturday, 18 October 2025, The Botanical Garden in Bucharest
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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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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 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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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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Slow practices of autonomy and regeneration
with Ana Barbu in Uzura Garden /
Saturday, 21 June 2025
Hours 15:00 – 20:00
Manasia commune, Ialomița county
From spring to autumn, four different gardens located in close proximity to Bucharest engage in an exchange of seeds, practices and experiences in cultivating and relating as part of the project Cultivators of Life. Starting with a spring session of exchanging seeds and further documenting the growing processes, throughout 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 each garden’s 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 first open garden event begins with Ana Barbu, who for ten years has been growing, in a slow process of learning and unlearning, a garden of biodiversity in a 600 sq m land located in Manasia commune, approximately 60 km north-east of Bucharest. For the event, Ana Barbu will invite participants to read together a reflective essay about the garden, followed by walks guided by texts, questions and sensorial and imaginative exercises to connect to plants and the soil that grounds them.
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To Give a House the Form of an Event
Launch of the eco-prototypes built in the frame of the project
Architecture, Biodiversity, Culture
Saturday, 14th of June, 2025, 12-8 pm
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
Intr. Primaverii no. 10, Silistea Snagovului
Eco-prototypes
Cosmos Garden: Georgiana Strat
The Eastern Glasshouse: Ștefan Gorie, Vlad Nicolae
The Oven Demeter: V. Leac
The Summer Kitchen Acaret 44°N 26°E: Atelier AdHoc Arhitectură
The phyto-epuration system: atelier d’architecture autogérée
Garden furniture
Relaxation bench: Adrian Filip, Edi Constantin, Oana Radu
Community table: Andrei Ștefan Păsărică, Larisa Danciu, Medeea Sandu, Miruna Roșu, Timea Cristea
Hosts
Adelina Luft
Edi Constantin
Raluca Voinea
Contributions
Adelina Ivan & Mihai Mitran, Alexandra Pirici & Andrei Dinu, Alina Ușurelu, Ana Kun, Anamaria Pravicencu, Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan, Anna Smolak, Athena Dumitriu, Cătălina Frâncu & Teodor Călinoiu, Charles Esche, Dan Vezentan, Dimitrie Grigorescu, Elena Vlădăreanu, Iuliana Dumitru, Konrad Petrovszky, Liliana Basarab, Livia Pancu, Maria Mora, Mihaela Moldovan, Octavia Anghel, Olivia Mihălțianu & Stoyan Dechev, Ovidiu Țichindeleanu, Raluca Popa, V. Leac, Vlad Basalici, Yasmeen Al-Qaisi, Yujin Lee
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