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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katia pascariu and Baran Gaginli
April 2022
Artistic residencies in the frame of The Wakest Link project.
GreenHouse / Sf. Atanasie street, no. 25, Iași
10 years after the initiation of tranzit. ro in Bucharest, Iași, Cluj and Sibiu, in 2012, tranzit. ro/ Iași embarks on a new structural-local journey in a new space in Iași, on St. Atanasie Street, no. 25 from Iași, together with colleagues from the sister organizations: Satellite, Teatru FIX and 1 + 1. This space will be generically called "Green House". On April 2, 2022, 6 p.m. we will all be able to meet at the opening of the After Future exhibition made by Satelit. At the regional and international level, we continue our work with tranzit.org. Our activity will start publicly with the residency program "The Weakest Link" in which we will have guests in Iași katia pascariu and Baran Gaginli. On this occasion, public events will be organized which will be announced at an earlier date.
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RESIDENCY IN IASI: EDUARD CONSTANTIN
Research. Production. Dialogue
November 2021
tranzit. ro/ Iasi will welcome in Iasi the Bucharest based artist for a fresh encounter with the city of Iași, a city that he had visited since Periferic Biennial was organized here, in 2003. During his staying in Iasi, we will be looking together at his long time practice while identifying new artistic research and production strings in the public space.
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Socialist architecture as a resource or the image of attrition, abandonment and precariousness
RESIDENCY ȘTEFAN RUSU RESIDENCY ȘTEFAN RUSU
Between September 12-25, 2021, the artist Ștefan Rusu was the guest tranzit. ro/ Iasi, in a research residence.
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Valentin Cernat
In residency in Iași. /
Meetings, reading groups, livestreamed presentations or propaganda walks. All this will be part of our programme together with Valentin Cernat during his residency in Iasi.
Valentin Cernat (1988) has a research-based practice and is working on collaborative projects.
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Artist in Residency: ANDREI NACU
March – June 2020 /
@tranzitiasi has smoothly started the 2020 less public, but more focused on research and collaborations. Early on, in March we welcomed London based artist Andrei Nacu for a residency in his hometown, Iași.
Image: “The sumer of 1989. When I was a child, almost every year, in the summer holiday, I was going with my family on trips to places like Lacu Roșu, Dorna Candrenilor or the Văratec and Agapia monasteries.
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