Demetra, the bread oven
Built for the Station by V. Leac /
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life, Siliștea Snagovului
A traditional oven in the garden is a place to celebrate the harvest, the beginning and end of seasons (as unpredictable as they have become), to gather people around its fire and fresh smell of baking bread, to provide food, stories and shelter.
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Lady Demeter, giver of splendid gifts*
Practical workshop for the building of a traditional oven, with V. Leac /
Saturday, 1 April 2023, 11 am – 6 pm
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life, Siliștea Snagovului
Coordonates
Access: by car via DN1 or A3; by bus, 446 line, departure from Piața Presei Libere, get off at Pescari stop.
A traditional oven in the garden is a place to celebrate the harvest, the beginning and end of seasons (as unpredictable as they have become), to gather people around its fire and fresh smell of baking bread, to provide food, stories and shelter.
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L’Internationale presents Museum of the Commons
tranzit. ro is proud to join L’Internationale consortium as a new partner, for the project Museum of the Commons.
Over the coming four years, L’Internationale will implement Museum of the Commons (2023–2026), a project granted €2,000,000 by the EU Creative Europe programme. During this period, the confederation will comprise 14 institutions: Museo Reina Sofía (Spain), MACBA (Spain), M HKA (Belgium), MSN (Poland), Salt (Turkey), Van Abbemuseum (the Netherlands), MSU (Croatia), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Germany), HDK-Valand (Sweden), NCAD (Ireland), ZRC SAZU (Slovenia), the Institute for Radical Imagination (Italy), tranzit.ro (Romania), the Visual Culture Research Center (Ukraine), and two associate partners, IMMA (Ireland) and WIELS (Belgium), along with the L’Internationale Association.
L’Internationale, the confederation of major European museums, art institutions, research centres and think-tanks, takes its name from the workers’ anthem calling for an equitable democratic society, and references the historical labour movement. In learning from local and shared histories, L’Internationale focuses on what is to come, in imagining, developing and implementing new visions for a future that will be just, democratic and sustainable for everyone, planetwide.
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Kristin Wenzel: Mira
tranzit.ro/București and The Last Archive present:
Kristin Wenzel: Mira
21 December 2022, 2-5 p.m.
An installation at the Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life, in the village Siliștea Snagovului
Coordinates: https://goo.gl/maps/JQMtN2spqm3iiXMHA
Access: by car via DN1 or A3; by bus no. 446, departure from Piața Presei Libere, arrival at Pescari stop
The work draws a line between the Experimental Station and a semi-abandoned observatory in the remote city of Sonneberg, in Thuringia, in East Germany. The observatory in Sonneberg was famous for their research about variable stars. Variable stars are characterized by a slow change of light intensity, in a rhythm of 330 days. When it is bright, you can even see it with the eye, when it is faint, not even binoculars are enough to see it.
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Cosmos Garden – the pilot episode
Cosmos Garden – the pilot episode
Planting workshop and discussions on biodiversity, with Georgiana Strat and Sabin Coscovelnita
Planting of Jatiwangi art Factory Embassy, with Adelina Luft
Saturday, 29 October 2022, 11 am – 6 pm
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life, Siliștea Snagovului
https://goo.gl/maps/Qz6Smvgxr91N9PsB9
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Lectures on the Weather
Performance and fieldwork /
Contributors: Contributors: Sandra Muteteri Heremans, Klara Hobza, Marx Machines Inc. (Filip Herbert, Anna Olszewska) Goda Palekaitė, Delia Popa
Curator: Anna Smolak
30 September 2022, 13:30-20:00h
Where: Siliștea Snagovului and surroundings, Romania (various locations)
Just after the summer ends, around the Siliștea Snagovului village and the Snagov Lake, in an itinerary taking us to the Experimental Station for Research, where a group of friends created an experiment for a future that we can still shape, to the Dolce Vita boat and to Ceausescu’s palace, to an anonymous bridge and on a bus guiding us from nearby Bucharest, six artists, scientists and activists will choreograph lecture-performances seeking out different vantage points from which to open up a view of a fragment of the rapidly changing landscape.
Lectures on the Weather evokes unexpected solidarities and complex affairs (human, gender, interspecies, post-human). These emerge out of conflicted zones and inhabit transitory spaces. They voice the feminist perspective: the shift from traditional structures to self-organized, horizontal movements and networks; from silence to voice and sound acting, from absence to emergence. They acknowledge the radicality of the emotional and the vulnerable amidst (and against) the intensifying pressures of the public present.
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Now the Impulse is to Live! Edition Sofia
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) and in partnership with Toplocentrala (BG).
2 – 17 September 2022
Toplocentrala, 5 Emil Bersinski Street, Sofia, Bulgaria
Opening: Friday, 2 September 2022, 6 p.m.
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Arief Yudi Rahman/ Jatiwangi art Factory: The New Rural Agenda
Saturday, 23rd of July 2022, 5-8 p.m.
Discussion moderated by Adelina Luft, accompanied by dinner
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life, Silistea Snagovului
For documenta fifteen in Kassel, the Jatiwangi art Factory has developed the New Rural Agenda—a transnational summit among rural community networks. The summit was preceded by the New Rural School, a series of knowledge and narrative exchanges in the form of conferences, amateur radio talks, and the Bulletin Rural School. It emphasized diverse perspectives from below and peripheries, challenging uniform ideas of progress and sustainability.
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Lectures on the Weather
Residency of curator Anna Smolak in Bucharest /
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Now the impulse is to live!
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) and in partnership with The Romanian Order of Architects
1 – 15 July 2022
Opening: Friday, 1st of July, 2022, 6 p.m.
The Romanian Order of Architects, Str. Pictor Arthur Verona nr. 19, Sector 1, București
A hybrid, research exhibition comprising documentation produced in the C4R activities, artworks and documents related to a localised understanding of resilience.
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Architecture, Biodiversity, Culture [ABC]. Building ecological institutions for culture. 2022-2024
We are happy to announce that tranzit.ro has been successful in receiving a Creative Europe grant as coordinator of a 3-years European cooperation project. We are looking forward to realizing this project, together with our partners, Atelier d'Architecture Autogérée (FR), Drenart (BG) and Nedeea Valceana Association (RO).
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It´s risky to let they see you alive and almost frangible*.
Saturday, May 14th, 2022
Cinema Elvire Popesco, Bucharest
between 5:30 - 5:40 pm.
Artists from all over lately find a place around nature, which they transform learning from nature, where they align themselves with other time-measuring instruments, they reorder the artistic concepts they work with, they relativize the distances to the city and open possibilities of collaboration with neighbours, with other artists, with non-human species.
Drained by a global pandemic and a nearby war, we will seek forces to synchronise for a few minutes, on the 14th of May, with several artistic spaces that are connected to nature. We will be able to see a short recorded transmission of a collective performance with feet on the ground, an affirmation of a type of inhabiting nature without colonising it, an invitation to rethink artistic work on more sustainable basis, an acceptance of the fragility of existence as a reason to plant life around us.
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