Reading Evald Ilyenkov
Friday, 22th of November 2024
tranzit. ro/Cluj,
Napoca str, no 16, 1st floor, Cluj Napoca
Evald Ilyenkov (1924-1979) is the most important Soviet Marxist philosopher of the postwar. He has written on a large gamut of subjects, from problems of theoretical philosophy, theory of knowledge, the concepts of the “abstract” and the “concrete”, the “ideal”, and the universal, to Marx’s materialist dialectical method in Capital, problems of cybernetics, automation, machine-thinking, to problems of pedagogy, theory of education, psychology, human mind, and ethics and aesthetics. Ilyenkov can be considered the philosophical originator of what is known as “activity theory” in the Soviet Union, which in its turn precedes what is known as Cultural-Historical Activity Theory internationally nowadays. The concepts, ideas and theories of Ilyenkov have influenced generations of younger philosophers from the 1950s to present in Eastern Europe, while recently enjoying an increased attention in the anglophone world.
The aim of these monthly reading seminars is to closely familiarize the participants with the key concepts and theories developed by Ilyenkov with the hope of utilizing them in the face of contemporary polycrisis.
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The Museum of Real Estate Development Assembly
tranzit.ro/ Iasi,
GreenHouse, Str. Sf. Atanasie nr. 25, Iași
2nd of August 2024, 10 a.m. - 5.30 p.m. (closed event)
Participants: George Zamfir, Enikő Vincze, Mișa Dumitriu, Vladimir Us, Mick Wilson, Andreas Fogarasi, Andrei Timofte, Dumitrița Gurău, Sarah Muscalu, Delia Bulgaru, Mona Vătămanu & Florin Tudor, Cătălin Gheorghe, Cristina Moraru, Preeti Kathuria, Sorin Gog, Ovidiu Țichindeleanu, Ioana Florea, STEALTH.unlimited, Škart, s.a.b.a., Andrei Pripasu.
3rd of August 2024, 4.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m., (public event)
Participants: Ovidiu Țichindeleanu, Enikő Vincze, Semeneh Ayalew Asfaw, Preeti Kathuria, Mick Wilson, STEALTH.unlimited.
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I, the city
Screening of videoworks from Iasi and the region (1994-2024)
Starting at 8 p.m. on the 1st of August 2024, (public event)
tranzit.ro/ Iasi,
Address: GreenHouse, Str. Sf. Atanasie nr. 25, Iași
The Museum of Real Estate Development invited us to imagine ourselves in the future, in a museum space where the public can see the material traces of real estate development from the beginning of the third millennium in several cities of the world. This exercise of imagination (the detachment from the present) aimed to allow us a critical position towards the phenomenon studied as part of contemporary capitalism. Real estate development was not seen as a finished process, but as an all-pervasive phenomenon that continued to be perpetuated and reinvented, and the cutting of spatio-temporal manifestations of this process turned them into targets of the social-political-cultural critique.
Such moments of attempted critique are also represented by the selected video materials that were produced during the last 3 decades (1994-2024) in Iasi or in the region.
At one level of analysis - that was many times erroneously identified as the city - we can observe in these video productions how the political-economic and social transformations of the last 3 decades have often become objects of artistic and intellectual critical reflection. At different levels of analysis, during the same period of time, we also uncritically experienced paradigmatic shifts in the domain of cultural production itself, the purpose of which was constantly re-calibrated aiming at the emergence and solidification of individual subjectivities that speak for and on behalf of the entire society.
Curated by Florin Bobu & Livia Pancu
Section I (projection):
Matei Bejenaru, Alexandru cel Bun, 1994-2003, 10 min. 16 sec, 2003, Dan Acostioaei, Dragos Alexandrescu, Bahlui by Night, 2 min, 2004, Dan Acostioaei, Reconstruction Scapes, 14 min 50 sec, 2005, Andreea Faciu, Touching the City no. 1 (Iasi, RO) 13 min 25 sec, 2007/2008, Cezar Lăzărescu, ȚESĂTURA IAȘI, 00:59, 2012, Vladimir Us, Marșul (The March), 4 min. 29 sec, 2012, tranzit.ro/ Iași, Prosper Center AW16, 8 min. 26 sec, 2016, Cezar Lăzărescu, ȚESĂTURA IAȘI vs. LIDL, 01:01, 2017, s.a.b.a (Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu) Video Monuments, part 1 (Mitriță & Silvia sr.), documentary, 21 min. 01 sec., 2018, s.a.b.a (Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu), Video Monuments, part 2 (Doru), documentary, 15 min. 30 sec., 2018, Andrei Timofte, Arhitectură-mobilă (Fluid Architecture), 10 min 25 sec., 2019, Andreea Cioară, LC Waikiki, 2 min 17 sec, 2019, Sit Vertical (Livia Pancu & Florin Bobu), Silk District, 4 min 14 sec, 2021, Cătălin Gheorghe, Fragments of a walk through time. A public walk with Florin Bobu and Cătălin Gheorghe, video, 7 min., 14 sec., 2021, Sarah Muscalu, Monument pentru memoria viitoare II / Monuments for future memory II, 5 min 29 sec, 2023, Drazen Crnomat, Kiew, video, 1 min. 29 sec., 2024.
Section II (archive):
s.a.b.a (Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu), Reheating the industry in transition, 14 min 54 sec., 2012, Oberliht Association (Vladimir Us, Ina Ivanceanu, Vahe Budumyan, Gaëlle Mege), Chișinău Civic Center – beyond the red lines, video documentation, 55 min 23 sec, 2013-2014, Florin Bobu, Vacanțe exotice în inima orașului(Exotic Holidays in the Heart of the City), video, 25 min 29 sec, 2016, Andrea Faciu, Touching the City no.3 (Limerick, IE), 28 min. 00 sec, 2009/2010, Andrea Faciu, Touching the City no.2 (Firenze, IT), 25 min. 00 sec, 2007/2010.
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Quiet Food Sovereignity in Eaestern Europe
Lecture /
With Natalia Momonova (Ukraine/Norway)
respondent: Valer Simion Cosma (Romania)
Friday, 19th 2024, 6-8 p.m
at The National Museum of Romania Peasant (Sala Acvariu entrance from the restaurant)
Cover credits: watercolor painting by Natalia Mamonova
Feeding a growing world population with sustainably produced food has been a challenge and it became critically important in the wake of covid-19, climate change, the wars in ukraine and gaza, and the rise of the far right in europe. while politicians debate how to make our food systems more innovative and resilient, there is a solution that has been available and practised in eastern europe for decades. smallholder farming and local food networks are widespread in many post-socialist countries, but are not typically seen as sustainable alternatives to globalised industrial agriculture. meanwhile, as the example of ukraine has shown, these practices are not only environmentally friendly and sustainable, but also capable of feeding the country’s population with healthy food in peace and wartime.
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Discussion around the book Bright Ecologies with Caretto/Spagna
Saturday, 6th of July.2024, at 2. p.m
A meeting at The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
GPS Coordinates
The Italian artistic duo Caretto/Spagna will present their first monograph entitled "Bright Ecologies. Caretto/Spagna: experiences, forms, materials" which extensively traces and documents more than 20 years of their artistic research structured on research involving care, the transformation of matter and experiments in form, materialized in sculptures, site-specific installations, laboratories, residencies, actions, and collective projects based on encounter, process, gift, participation, and co-authorship. The result of a close dialogue between artists, curators, and the publisher, the publication blends a documentary approach, critical and theoretical interpretation, and a rich body of descriptions and images.
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ANTIDOXA_7 – Reading group GMT
13 May2024, 6 p.m
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.
On the 13th of May, we will discuss "On solidarity". This time the discussion is led by Erőss Réka.
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REVISITING STATE SOCIALISM VIII
Thursday, 11th of April, 2024, 7 p.m
"Lucian Blaga" University Library from Sibiu/ Str. Lucian Blaga, no. 2A
tranzit. ro/Cluj in partnership with Babes Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca and "Lucian Blaga" University Library from Sibiu invites you to a lecture and discussion within the project
"Philosophy in Late Socialist Europe: Theoretical Practices in the Face of Polycrisis" on the topic of the polycrisis of the 1970s -1980 with the title
„Reframing Sovereign Power in Late Socialist Romania: Crisis, Militarism and the Nationalist Turn”.
The meeting is moderated by Ștefan Baghiu.
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REVISITING STATE SOCIALISM VII
March 28, 2024, 7 pm
tranzit. ro/Cluj, 16 Napoca str., Cluj-Napoca
We invite you to join our series of conferences at tranzit.ro/Cluj partnered by Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj under the project Philosophy in Late Socialist Europe: Theoretical Practices in the Face of Polycrisis.
The seventh meeting is chaired by Siyaves Azeri.
Una Blagojević
„Post-War ‘Crisis of Marxism’: Insights from Yugoslav Marxist Revisionists”
In my talk, I discuss the ‘crisis of Marxism’ and ‘crisis of socialism’ by looking at the example of Yugoslav Marxist Revisionists. Their discourses of crisis encompassed debates on the crisis of epistemology, the crisis of subjectivity, and the crisis of philosophy taking place in Western European intellectual circles. The disorientation and atomization of the human being—phenomena they adopted and adjusted from the analysis of Western technological societies—inevitably led to a disintegration of Yugoslav society, alongside the latent growth of ethnonational affirmations in the early 1970s. I point out how their conceptual framework of crisis facilitated the adoption of integral ethnonationalist philosophical and political positions.
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ANTIDOXA_6 – Reading Group GMT
18th of march 023, 6 p.m
Address:tranzit. ro/Cluj,
Napoca str, no 16, 1st floor, Cluj Napoca
[The event is held in Hungarian]
On the 18th of March, we will discuss two sections of „Truth and Class”, entitled „People, estate and class” and „The truth about class, or class and truth”.
This time the discussion is led by Erőss Réka and Bíró Noémi.
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Revisiting State Socialism VI. Dance music as a metaphor for socialist acceleration in Romania in the 1960s and 1980s.
On 15 March, at 19:00, the sixth edition of the project "Revisiting State Socialism" took place with the title "Dance music as a metaphor for socialist acceleration in Romania in the 60s and 80s". The guests were Paul Breazu and Mihai Lukács, and the meeting was moderated by Ștefan Baghiu.
Socialist time was perceived in the late 1960s as accelerated, no longer corresponding to a linear flow, the sound of factory production being associated with new music that was beginning to incorporate electronic sound. In the following decades, Romanian pop, light and electronic music grew in parallel with the new industrialization and development at speed, becoming a soundtrack of the new material conditions of late socialism. Romanian pop ("light") music branched out in new directions in the early 1970s, and its social character gained momentum for creators and the general public. Composer and music historian Laurențiu Profeta noted in 1976 the emergence of militant light music songs in the later years, many of which became slams, reaching a much wider audience. Seen as a result of the party's ideological programme, which left no artistic sector untouched, social-political light music songs became imposed themselves authoritatively. Socialism was not just an economic project, but a complex that encompassed political, social, cultural and artistic dimensions, so the systemic projection onto a pop sub-genre like dance music was not left to chance.
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András Vigvári: Zártkert-Magyarország
Book Launch in Cluj Napoca /
Thursday, 29th of February, 6 p.m.
Address: tranzit.ro/Cluj, Napoca str, no 16, 1st floor, Cluj Napoca
How do people address the housing crisis? András Vigvári's book deals with the grassroots responses to the housing crisis in Central and Eastern Europe, focusing on the settlement of suburban private agricultural areas. The book presents an ethnographic study of the settlement of a suburban garden area on the outskirts of a town near Budapest, once an agricultural and weekend housing area, and discusses the results of the fieldwork as part of global social and housing processes.
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ANTIDOXA_5 – Reading group GMT
26th of February2024, 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.
On the 26th of February, we will discuss a section of the text „Truth and Class”, entitled „Two kinds of socialism.”
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Revisiting State Socialism (V)
February 22th in Bucharest, 7 p.m
Grădina ArtHub,
General Constantin Budișteanu Street, no 10
We invite you to join our series of conferences by tranzit.ro/Cluj and Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj under the PNRR project Philosophy in Late Socialist Europe: Theoretical Practices in the Face of Polycrisis.
Our Bucharest meeting is moderated by Adela Hîncu.
Our podcast series here:
https://soundcloud.com/rev-state-socialism
Our HMCluj 2024 conference here:
https://hmcluj2024.conference.ubbcluj.ro/
Socialism, Alternative Globalization, and Human Rights
talk by Raluca Grosescu & Bogdan Iacob
State socialism had a crucial role in post-war globalization and the subsequent crafting of international law. During the Cold War, Eastern Europe produced trans-regional circulations, epistemic networks, and institutional projects alternative to but interconnected with those generated in the West. Decolonization was the catalyst for socialist globalism in international organizations, at the level of inter-governmental relations and in terms of reconceptualizing norms and hierarchies.
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Sophie Goltz.Building and Repairing Civic Life: call for public space.
Saturday, 10th of February 2024, 6 p.m.
tranzit.ro/ Iasi @ GreenHouse, Str. Sf. Atanasie nr. 25, Iași
tranzitiasi is welcoming you on this Saturday, the 10th of February to join us for a public lecture with curator and art educator Sophie Goltz.
”Based on the repercussions of Documenta Fifteen and connected with the question of public (art) spaces, this lecture will present artistic and curatorial strategies around notions of remembering. Lately, what it was called "Versöhnungstheater" (spectacle of reconciliation, Czollek), the German Erinnerungskultur (remembrance culture) is questioned in these projects and its institutional manifestations be it a memorial site, museum, archive, walkabout, ritual, or gesture.
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Research Transformation
an autotheoretical lecture by Cătălin Gheorghe
based on a book mediation event
Saturday, December 16, 2023, at 5 p.m.
tranzit.ro/ Iasi
Address: Greenhouse, Str. Sf. Atanasie nr. 25, Iași
Book mediation:
Catalin Gheorghe, Transformarea cercetării. Noi estetici aplicate în practica cercetării artistice critice (Research transformation. New aesthetics applied in the practice of critical artistic research), tranzit.ro/Iași, Iași, 2022, ISBN 978-606-94455-9-4
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Revisiting State Socialism (IV)
Friday, December 15, 2023, 6:00 p.m
"Lucian Blaga" University Library from Sibiu/ Str. Lucian Blaga, no. 2A
tranzit. ro/Cluj in partnership with UBB Cluj-Napoca and "Lucian Blaga" University Library from Sibiu invites you to a lecture and discussion within the project "Philosophy in Late Socialist Europe: Theoretical Practices in the Face of Polycrisis" on the topic of the polycrisis of the 1970s -1980 with the title
„Varieties of Polycrisis: Escalations, Doomsdays and Historical History from the Long 1970s to Today”.
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REVISITING STATE SOCIALISM (II)
tranzit.ro/Cluj in partnership with UBB Cluj-Napoca on 16th November, 18:00, organized a lecture and discussion within the project "Philosophy in Late Socialist Europe: Theoretical Practices in the Face of Polycrisis" on the Romanian novel in late communism and early capitalism with the title "Communist Anticommunism: the Realist Novel in Late Communist Romania and the Transition to Capitalist Realism".
The guests of this edition were Ștefan Baghiu and Mihai Iovănel. The meeting was held in Romanian and was moderated by Alex Cistelecan.
Online event
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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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THE DEPLOYMENT OF ART
Public presentation /
Dr. Clare Carolin,
Senior Lecturer in Art and Public Engagement, Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King’s College London
2nd of November 2023, 6 p.m.
tranzit.ro/ Iasi
Address: GreenHouse, Str. Sf. Atanasie nr. 25, Iași
tranzitiasi is welcoming you on Thursday, the 2nd of November to join us for a public talk where – using the findings of Clare Carolin`s doctoral research - we may start to understand retrospectively the way in which art can operate in very specific conflict zones or, more generally in times of war.
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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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Collaborative and Engaging Activism in Contemporary Indian Art: Notes on Agrarian Distress
Public presentation /
Public presentation: Collaborative and Engaging Activism in Contemporary Indian Art: Notes on Agrarian Distress
By PREETI KATHURIA, PhD Researcher, Department of Art History, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
15th of July 2023, 7.00 p.m.
tranzit.ro/ Iasi
Adress: GreenHouse, Str. Sf. Atanasie nr. 25, Iași
”Contemporary art offers an infinite anthology on issues of significance. Artists represent diverse voices and perspectives, which not only define their niche art practices but may also have social underpinnings. Artistic practices that combine creativity with strategic planning, that aim at spreading awareness to create an impact and/or bring about a change are considered activist in nature. One very popular example is the Guerrilla Girls who choose art as a medium to fight against gender bias and racism that persists within the art world. In New York, 1985, the masked group of women created posters and public letters questioning the existing norms and brought a new awareness on discrimination. Another globally recognised artist-activist from China is Ai Wei Wei, whose art is a reflection of his absolute distrust in the manipulative and corrupt political system of his country.
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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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Forever – is composed of Nows –
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life, Siliștea Snagovului
GPS Coordinates
In this present in which the future is almost cancelled, #solarpunk imagines a way to be together based on other options than denial or despair. In this speculative imaginary, manifested as sci-fi literary and artistic forms, and rapidly expanding in multiple forms of popular culture, the solar, understood as renewable energy, meets punk as form of self-organisation, thus representing a trend in discontinuity with genres like cyberpunk, dieselpunk or steampunk.
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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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ANTIDOXA 1– Reading group GMT
5th May 2023, 6 pm.
tranzit.ro/Cluj, Napoca,
str, no 16, 1st floor, Cluj Napoca
"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)
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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The appeal of hitting rock bottom: International Relations and the notion of a point zero
Lecture by Gergely Romsics /
Thursday, 30 March 2023, 7 PM.
Moderator: Tibor Toró
Thinking about various “point zero” moments in international history is rooted in a venerable and long-standing tradition. The traditional assumption, according to which a global point zero would constitute a return to the „state of nature”, a moment of anarchical self-help and violence, has been superseded in the 20th century by theorizing about the potential of such a point zero to overcome difficult legacies of power politics, opening a new vista for constructing an international utopia, a Cosmopolis or “world city” of universal rights and security. Such legacies and hopes clashed in 1918-1919, as World War I drew to a close and the Paris Peace Conference was preparing to convene, and again from 1943 onwards as planning began about a new Europe and a new world after the elimination of the Nazi, fascist and imperial Japanese threats. 1989 brought about a return to utopian thinking about „overcoming” anarchy and insecurity in the international system, a process conceptualized in surprisingly similar terms to patterns of thought familiar from 1918-1919.
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SOCIETY OF SPECTACLES - public discussion
Monday, December 19th, 2022, 7 P.M.
Address:
tranzit. ro/Cluj, Napoca Street, no. 16, 1st. floor
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
[The event is held in Hungarian]
Society of the Spectacle - Discussion on the one of the most significant work of the European Leftist Tradition, the so called Second Communist Manifesto, The Capital of the new generation.
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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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GreenHouse
tranzit. ro/ Iași, 1+1, Satelit and Teatru Fix
Str. Sf. Atanasie, nr. 25, Iași
Q&A
What is it? Not really well defined yet.
Is it a new Collective? No.
Is it a platform? Maybe.Is it an adress? Fore sure.
Are you a new legal entity? No.
Do you want to become one? Not really.
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FEINART / Symposium on Socially Engaged Art
Saturday, 26 of March - from 9 to 6 PM.
Location: Aðalbygging, University of Iceland
Entrance: free admission
tranzit.ro, partner institution within FEINART programme, announces a full-day conference which will take place at the University of Iceland on 26 of March 2022. The conference was dedicated to contemporary challenges in socially engaged art practice addressing questions on democracy, social and cultural policy as well as new forms of artistic and curatorial practice.
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Halfway to Paradise
A discussion about artistic initiatives’ (re)turn to nature. /
With: Adriana Chiruta, Irina Botea & Jon Dean, V. Leac, Daniela Palimariu, Delia Popa
Sunday, 30 January 2022, 4 p.m.
https://whereby.com/public-meetings
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ABOUT READING AS PRODUCTION OF DEBATE
online reading group coordinated by Noa Treister
29th of October - 15th of November, 2021
”Accumulation is one of the crucial aspects of Marx’s analysis of the Capitalist system. Rosa Luxemburg was one of the key figures that initiated a debate on the subject that followed the publication of her The Accumulation of Capital. Reading The Accumulation of Capital – An Anti-critique which was Luxemburg’s answer to her critiques, we will be able to follow the entire debate on this question to consider how to hold a political debate that includes both method and praxis. ” (Noa Treister)
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Guided Urban Walks on Viitorului Street
“Crimes are abolished. Only passions remain.” /
tranzit.ro/ București organises from 20th of September to the 1st of November 2021 the project “Crimes are abolished. Only passions remain.*” Exhibitions and intersections, Paris Viitorului [Paris Future], a project co-financed by Bucharest City Council through ARCUB within the Programme Bucharest – Open City 2021
In the frame of this project, we invite you from 21 October to the 1st of November to a series of urban walks guided by: Mara Mărăcinescu, Florin Dumitrescu, Rucsandra Pop, V. Leac, Alice Gancevici & Remus Pușcariu, Ioana Tudora.
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From local to planetary: changing the way of life
Gilles Clément in dialogue with Civic Movement R-Urban /
27 July 2021, 6 pm
Casa Filipescu-Cesianu, Calea Victoriei 151, Bucharest
“As planetary gardeners, we depend on all the biological diversity that we harness for a living. We must preserve it to ensure a future. What kind of model do we want to develop, to allow both the exploitation of diversity for the benefit of an expanding world population, and the preservation, in quality and quantity terms, of that diversity on which we depend? We must respond to this question as quickly as possible if we are not to succumb to the inevitability of irreversible forces of destruction, but rather to develop in every conceivable field a mental territory of optimism – a garden.” (Gilles Clément, 2021)
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Non-linear narratives of the Enlightenment
Lecture by VERONICA LAZĂR /
Friday, 25 June 2021, at 7 PM.
Link for the online event:
https://zoom.us/j/94078367667
Moderator: Dana Domșodi
After decades of sophisticated historical research and professional myth busting, academic and popular images of the Enlightenment seem today to be further apart than ever. However, the political question of the legacies of the Enlightenment, whether salutary or deleterious, is once again in season. This talk will argue, firstly, that these legacies are contextual, contradictory, open-ended and ready to be appropriated in creative ways; and secondly, that more than theories, values or attitudes, critical or political – the quest for peace, rationalism, secularism, tolerance, rights of man etc. -, it was above all a few epistemic dislocations brought about by the Enlightenment that proved to be revolutionary for the modern understanding of history, culture and society.
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ON READING AS A SOCIAL RELATION
online reading group /
June, 2021
Participants: Noa Treister, Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan, Baran Carangli, Dana Andrei, Beatrice Anghelache, Cătălin Gheorghe, Maxim Polyakov, Mădălina Muscă, Bogdan Popa, Ovidiu Pop, Valentin Cernat, Smaranda Ursuleanu, Andrei Timofte, Ruxandra Simion, Delia Bulgaru, Florin Bobu, Livia Pancu.
The debate between Jean Luc Nancy and Maurice Blanchot started in the 80’s around the question of the constitution of a community in the exchange surrounding Nancy’s The Inoperative Community and Blanchot’s The Unavowable Community, and recently a belated answer in Nancy’s The Disavowed Community surround the question of reading and the subject. Following these texts we will be asking who is the subject that reads and how is reading always already together. This has extreme relevance to artists and scholars that find themselves frequently outside the conventional professional gathering places like galleries, museums or universities and are craving dialog and a sense of community.
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Climates of History. Or How Climate Crises are Class Struggles in the Web of Life
Jason W. Moore, Binghamton University /
Friday, 28 May 2021, 7 pm
Link for the online event:
https://zoom.us/j/98199345913
Moderator: Attila Szigeti
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Cul-de-Sac Economics: Europe on the Brink of Climate Meltdown
Online lecture by Cornel Ban
(Copenhagen Business School)
Monday, 29th of March , 7:30 pm.
Link for the online event:
https://zoom.us/j/99920238790
Moderated by Attila Szigeti
Science tells us that we are playing a pyramid scheme with the habitability of our Earth. It also tells is that we are getting close to the panic and unravelling stages of that pyramid scheme, with a stabilization of warming at below 2 degrees Celsius being our optimistic scenario. This reckless game is embedded in institutional complementarities that make it politically and economically costly to arrest the causal generators of environmental collapse. It seems that as a species we can’t help but have the greatest death wish of all.
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The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art
FEINART Lecture Series with Gregory Sholette, Artist, Activist, Writer /
19.03.2021 – starting at 5:00pm CET
In the frame of the FEINART lecture series the author Gregory Sholette approaches his subject from the unusual dual perspective of commentator (as scholar and writer) and insider (as activist artist). He describes a new wave of activist art taking place not only within community-based protest groups, as it has for decades, but also amongst professionally trained, MFA-bearing art practitioners, many of whom, by choice or by circumstance, refuse to respect the conventional borders separating painting from protest, or art from utility.
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The Problems and Horizons of Socially Engaged Art Today
FEINART Lecture Series with Prof John Roberts /
The Future of European Independent Art Spaces in a Period of Socially Engaged Art
We are proud to announce the first of the FEINART Lecture Series.
On March 5 at 18:30 CET Prof John Roberts from the University of Wolverhampton will give a lecture on ‘The Problems and Horizons of Socially Engaged Art Today’. The talk will address the core questions of democracy, collaboration, and autonomy and will be moderated by Prof Karen van den Berg of Zeppelin University.
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Andreea Cioara: “Gust de Neuitat” / “Unforgettable Taste” @tranzitiasi on Instagram
On the February 10th, 2021 the Iași based artist Andreea Cioară (@andrutza_julie) started to share - on our instagram account - a weekly episode from her ceramic graphic story “Gust de Neuitat” / “Unforgettable Taste”.
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FORCES AND RELATIONS OF PRODUCTION, NOW AND THEN
Online discussion with ADRIAN GRAMA și ȘTEFAN GUGA /
Wednesday, 10 of February, at 7 pm.
Moderator: Alex Cistelecan
At first glance, it would appear that debates about forces and relations of production, and their mutual relationship, which were once fundamental concepts of historical materialism, have by now all but disappeared from contemporary socio-economic discourse and, implicitly, from the socio-economic reality itself. And yet, their active presence is felt as soon as we scratch a bit the surface of today’s reality.
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Classless train: technology, infrastructure and capitalist ecomodernization
Online lecture by NATALIA BUIER /
December 10th, at 7pm.
Moderator: Dana Domșodi
Technology and its triumphalist reprezentation together with technologic progress represent not only defining elements of the modern imaginary, but also central pieces in the political anticapitalist repertoire. When talking about ecological crisis, labor emancipation or social-democrat measures designed to contain and mitigate the structural crises of global capitalism, technology always appears as a restraining tool of present contradictions. This presentation explores the role of technology in the context of capitalist ecomodernization and its possible functions within anticapitalist ecologist struggles while looking at the high-speed railway project from Spain. Spain, world leader in high-speed railway constructed kilometers, but also in the number of airports and built highway kilometers, has experienced in the last two decades a series of transformations that can serve as a benchmark in evaluating the progressive contemporary proposals such as Green New Deal and the technological modernizations as a solution to the problems of the capitalist society.
Natalia Buier has studied sociology and anthropology. Presently she researches the connection between economic crises, ecological transformations and infrastructure. She is a graduate of the Departament of Sociology and Anthropology from CEU, currently being affiliated to the Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology. She obtained her Phd. at CEU with a thesis on historical memory and labor movements in the Spanish railway system.
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Andrei Timofte: LET’S TALK ABOUT PLASTER AND CAPITAL
Public talk. Facebook and videostream.ro /
28 november 2020
At the invitation to make a public presentation of my own artistic practice I chose to talk about two of the personal research conducted in 2019: THE CEMENT PLASTER FINISH WALL OF A PETIT BOURGEOIS and the project ARTIST, I BUY AN APARTMENT IN THIS BLOCK! both curated by Florin Bobu and Livia Pancu. The online presentation of the two projects represents an opportunity to discuss extensively and in an appropriate framework about their cultural and personal foundations. At other times, they aim to present to the general public other visual materials that formed the basis of the artworks.
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AI Commons
Online lecture by Oana Mateescu /
November 27th, 2020, at 7 pm.
In 2019, Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiels made waves by stating that “AI is literally communist” while a few years earlier the accelerationist philosopher Nick Land set out to demonstrate “the teleological identity of capitalism and artificial intelligence”. Few other recent technologies have exercised so much ideological fascination, not to mention inspiring an ever-growing output of policy papers on governance and ethics. This talk maps out some of the key issues in contemporary debates that project the political economic future of AI beyond the current moment of platform capitalism. It reviews the positions of left accelerationism, postcapitalism and fully automated luxury communism, focusing on the major blind spot: ownership and control of the means of production. It concludes by emphasizing the increasing push towards imagining AI as commons, while acknowledging the ease with which tech platforms can stimulate open-source AI tools and re-appropriate their products.
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INSTAACTIVITY: Poe & Smaranda Ursuleanu
@tranzitiasi, a series of interventions on tranzit.ro/ Iasi instagram page by Iasi based artists.
November 2020
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THE COUNCIL OF PEACE, UTOPIAN DIALOGUE, DIRECT TRANSLATION FROM REVOLUTIONARY LANGUAGE (RL)
by OVIDIU POP /
Collective Reading by Elena Bonte, David Bonte, Ovidiu Pop, Florin Bobu, Livia Pancu, Andrei Timofte, Marius-Alexandru Dan, Baran Caginli, Dorone Paris, Noa Treister and Alexander Nikolic.
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“Save As” Pedagogy Conference
29th February, 1st of March
Apáczai Csere János Theoretical High School, Cluj-Napoca
The strategy of the 3rd “Save As” Pedagogy Conference, as in previous years, is based on the fact that pedagogy, being inter- and multidisciplinary requires an education system connected to all institutions of society. The aim of the conference is to involve professionals and students working together with public schools, as well as individuals and institutions part of the academic and civil sectors. As a platform for professionals, the conference provides an opportunity to discuss issues that are often overlooked in the public education system, in teacher training, and during policy-making. Bringing marginal issues into mainstream discussions, and building collaborations is another goal of the organizers that can bring about change at a local level and serve as inspiration for others.
The conference will take place at the Apáczai Csere János Theoretical High School, Cluj-Napoca, between the 29th of February and the 1st of March. The organizers are looking forward to hosting 200 participants. The program includes 8 lectures and 14 workshops/seminars.
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The Convenient Percent: the Humanistic Research
A debate with Veronica Lazăr and Delia Bădoi /
Organised by Sofia Nădejde Awards project together with tranzit.ro/Bucureşti
Monday, 17 February 2020, 7:00 pm
Londohome, Str. David Praporgescu 31, București
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The Block for Housing
Friday, 31st of January – Sunday, 2nd of February 2020
The public presentation will be held on Saturday, 1st of February 2020, between 5.00 pm and 7.30 pm.
tranzit. ro/Iași,
Elena Doamna, nr. 37, Iaşi
The Block for Housing meets in Iasi from January 31 to February 2, 2020, in order to further increase the alliance between autonomous groups and active organizations for housing justice in several cities in the country. We will discuss our most recent collective projects - The Action Platform for Housing Justice in Romania (2018) and Action against Labour Exploitation and Housing Deprivation (2019) - as well as the project we are now starting From knowledge production to political mobilization for public housing as solution to the housing crises created by capitalism(2020), supported by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.
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ORBITING MODERNITY: FROM THE STEAM ENGINE TO THE GALACTIC DEBRIS
Can we cool a burning planet? Degrowth, technology, and the Green New Deal
Lecture & public discussion
held by Gareth Dale (Brunel University, Londra)
Thursday, 30 January 2020, 7 pm.
tranzit. ro/Cluj,
Napoca St, no 16, I floor, Cluj
In these past years, tranzit.ro/Cluj has developed an investigation deployed on multiple levels (philosophy, sociology, economy) and various formats (conferences, seminars, workshops, exhibitions) on the topic of capitalist modernity and its double legacy – as intellectual and material resources for critique and social progress, but also the challenges and contradictions that the project of modernity carries within itself and are exploding nowadays in acute ways.
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Launch of Corner magazine #7 & #8
CORNER fottball + society
Combo launch
Monday, 16 December 2019, 7 p.m.
tranzit.ro/ București, Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4
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Book launch and debate
Friday, 13th December, 6 pm, at tranzit.ro/Cluj, we gladly invite you to a round table discussion around these topics, occasioned by the publication of two recent books: Costi Rogozanu, Epoca de mijloc, and Alex Cistelecan, De la stânga la stânga. Lecturi critice în câmpul progresist (Tact, Cluj, 2019) .
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Dan Perjovschi in tranzit: 30 years of freedom
tranzit. ro/Iaşi
Str. Elena Doamna, no. 37, Iasi
Thursday, December 12th, 2019, at 7.30 pm
tranzit.ro/Iași invites you on Thursday evening to participate in a free discussion about the state of the art and the artist here and elsewhere, with Dan Perjovschi. The theme suggested is generally concerning the Romanian cultural scene in its transition to capitalism, therefore we are waiting for a discussion, hopefully meaningful that will be livestreamed on tranzit. ro facebook page, through the aLIVE program.
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Analysis of the Orbán regime from a political economy perspective
What's the situation in Hungary? How does the Orban regime work and why? The latest issue of the Journal of Social Theory "Fordulat" analyzes current Hungarian political, economic and social processes. Many narratives about the "NER" have been born. The unique contribution of this issue is that its authors (members of the Working Group for Public Sociology "Helyzet") do not examine the Orbán regime as a unique political construct, but within a broader historical, political economy framework on the basis of world system theory.
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Contemporary Art Institutions: The Kunstverein Model.
A presentation by Iris Dressler and Hans D. Christ /
Monday, 24th of June, 2019, 7 p.m.
tranzit.ro/Bucuresti, Str. Gazelei 44, sector 4
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This is My Home, My Land and My Country
A presentation by Hit Man Gurung and Sheelasha Rajbhandari /
Wednesday, 5th of June 2019, 7 pm
tranzit.ro/Bucuresti, Str. Gazelei 44, sector 4
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stealing earth
A presentation by Karan Shrestha /
Saturday, 18 May 2019, 6:30 pm
tranzit.ro/Bucuresti, Str. Gazelei 44, sector 4
We invite you to a presentation by Karan Shrestha and an informal discussion with him about his work and about the artistic scene in the places where he lives.
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FLORIN POENARU: FOOTBALL AS MEDIA HISTORY
Public Presentation /
1st of May 2019
tranzit.ro/ Iaşi
Al. Lăpuşneanu street, no. 7-9, Iaşi
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Manuel Mireanu: Nationalism And Realism In Romanian-Hungarian War From 1919
Public Presentation /
Residency: April/ May 2019
Public Presentation: 1st of Mai 2019
tranzit.ro/ Iaşi
Al. Lăpuşneanu street, no. 7-9, Iaşi
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Between Post-Fascism and Pure Capitalism
G.M.Tamás at 70 /
10 December 2018, 7 pm
tranzit.ro/ Cluj
Napoca St, no 16, 1st floor, Cluj
Guests: G.M. Tamás, István Adorján, Alex Cistelecan, Joe Grim Feinberg, Andrei State, Attila Szigeti
Moderator: Dana Domsodi
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JENS HAANING | Artist Presentation
21 November 2018, 7 pm
Fabrica de Pensule
Henri Barbusse 59-61, 400616 Cluj-Napoca
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Vârsta4. Pe ritm de LAMBADA
Screening and discussion with Roland Ibold /
11 November 2018, 6 pm
tranzit.ro/ Iași
Al. Lăpușneanu St, no. 7-9
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Sezgin BOYNIK: Theory of Image in Videograms of a Revolution
Presentation /
10 November 2018, 6 pm
tranzit.ro/ Iași
Al. Lăpușneanu St, no. 7-9
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Literary Migration? (On Writing Literature in a Dominating Language)
Reading and discussion /
Friday, 2 November 2018, 7 pm
Reading and discussion with the kollektiv sprachwechsel in Viena and Ovid Pop
MACAZ – Bar Teatru Coop
Moşilor street, no. 106, Bucharest, Romania
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Dematerialisation and devaluation of work
Lecture and writing workshop /
25 October 2018
“Lupeni” Industrial Mining School Group, city of Lupeni, Hunedoara County
Collaborator: Elena Vlădăreanu
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The Golden Age. The Plastic Age. The Carbon Fiber Age
Lecture and writing workshop /
23 October 2018
“Constantin Brâncoveanu” Technological Highschool, city of Scorniceşti, Olt County
Collaborator: Elena Vlădăreanu
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Arc Talks: Mathilde Villeneuve/ Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers
Solitude Projects /
Tuesday, 9 October 2018, 7 pm
The Experimental Station for Research
tranzit. ro/ București
Str. Gazelei 44, sector 4
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The Books and the Silence
Lecture and writing workshop /
4 – 5 October 2018
“Gherla” Penitenciary, city of Gherla, Cluj County
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Re-building with Rammed Earth
Presentation by Mihai Silvestru, Arhigest /
Thursday, 4 October 2018, 6:30 p.m.
The Experimental Station for Research
tranzit. ro/ București
Str. Gazelei 44, sector 4
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What Tomorrow Brings – The Perpetual Beginning
Lecture and writing workshop /
2 October 2018
Bonțida Secondary School, Cluj County
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Regional museums and contemporary art collections
Presentation by Zdenka Badovinac /
Monday, 18 June 2018, 8 pm
tranzit. ro/ București
Str. Gazelei 44, sector 4
An event organized in partnership with PAV (Visual Art Platform), developed by Dan Perjovschi within FITS – The International Theatre Festival in Sibiu, 25th edition, 2018.
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The Destruction of Reason: An Unfinished Project
On Contemporary Irrationalism
8 June 2018, 5:30 pm
The “Popular Front” in Unpopular Times
8 June 2018, 7:30 pm
tranzit. ro/ Cluj
Brassai Samuel St, no 5
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PRIVILEGES AND IDENTITIES: RIGHTS AND PROPERTY
Two seminars by Noa Treister /
1st-24th of June 2017
tranzit.ro/ Iași
Al. Lăpușneanu St, no. 7-9
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Szemkontakt II: Post-fascism, Biopolitics, Populism?
Authoritarian Capitalism in Central and Eastern Europe /
Friday, 1 June 2018, 7 pm
tranzit. ro/ Cluj
Brassai Samuel St, no 5
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The Political Myth of Intellectual Property. Why Is It So Harmful?
Presentation by Ovidiu Gherasim-Proca /
Tuesday, 29th of May 2018, hours TBA
"George Enescu" Arts University, Iași
Faculty of Visual Arts and Design
Sărăriei Street, no. 189, Iași
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Theories of Property and Poverty in Modern Philosophy
Jeremy Bentham, Defence of usury /
Saturday, 26th of May 2018, 5 pm
tranzit. ro/ Cluj
Brassai Samuel St, no 5
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NOA TREISTER, The Possibility of Reading
Presentation in the frame of Zilele Spațiului Public, ediția a III-a (The Public Space Days (3rd edition), Chișinău, Republic of Moldova
May 24th, 2018, 4 pm - 5:30 pm
tranzit.ro/ Iaşi
Al. Lăpuşneanu street, no. 7-9
In partnership with Oberliht Association, Chișinău
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What remains of May 68?
Thursday, 24th of May 2018, 6 pm
tranzit. ro/ Cluj
Brassai Samuel St, no 5
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Crisis Zones – War Territories, Conflict Areas: The World Around Us, Thought to Be Almost Peaceful
With Zsuzsánna Fodor (photo journalist) and Boróka Parászka (journalist) /
Friday, 18th of May 2018, 6 pm
tranzit. ro/ Cluj
Brassai Samuel St, no 5
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Theories of Property and Poverty in Modern Philosophy
An Essay on the History of Civil Society, by Adam Ferguson /
Seminar #9
5 May 2018, 5 pm
tranzit. ro/ Cluj
Brassai Samuel St, no 5
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Theories of Property and Poverty in Modern Philosophy
Coordinated by Dana Domsodi & Alex Cistelecan /
Seminar #8
28 April 2018, 5 pm
tranzit. ro/ Cluj
Brassai Samuel St, no 5
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Protecting the same-sex couple under the law
Presentation by Vlad Popa and Diana Sabău /
Friday, April 20th, 7 pm
tranzit.ro/ Iași
Al. Lăpușneanu St, no. 7-9
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Theories of Property and Poverty in Modern Philosophy
Coordinated by Dana Domsodi & Alex Cistelecan /
Seminar #7
18 March 2018, 4 pm
tranzit. ro/ Cluj
Brassai Samuel St, no 5
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Theories of Property and Poverty in Modern Philosophy
Coordinated by Dana Domsodi & Alex Cistelecan /
Seminar #6
17 February 2018, 5 pm
tranzit. ro/ Cluj
Brassai Samuel St, no 5
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Theories of Property and Poverty in Modern Philosophy
Coordinated by Dana Domsodi & Alex Cistelecan /
Seminar #5
20 January 2018, 4 pm
tranzit. ro/ Cluj
Brassai Samuel St, no 5
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Theories of Property and Poverty in Modern Philosophy
Coordinated by Dana Domsodi & Alex Cistelecan /
Seminar #4
16th of December 2017, 4 pm
tranzit. ro/ Cluj
Brassai Samuel St, no 5
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Inopportune Archives. Movies, Memories, Politics
with Radu Jude and Claudiu Turcuș /
6th of November 2017
tranzit. ro/ Cluj
Brassai Samuel St, no 5
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Theories of Property and Poverty in Modern Philosophy
Coordonated by Dana Domsodi & Alex Cistelecan /
5th and 19th of November 2017
tranzit. ro/ Cluj
Brassai Samuel St, no 5
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An Art Work in Political and Ideological Context
Disscussion about the work Banner (by Dan Acostioaei) with Dan Acostioaei and Nebojša Milikić, moderated by Vahida Ramujkić /
25th of October 2017, 6 pm
Lobby of the Victoria Cinema in Iasi
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Theories of property and poverty in modern philosophy (seminars)
Coordonated by Dana Domsodi & Alex Cistelecan /
Following the reading seminars organized in the previous years (Legacies of Modernity and History of Economic Thought), starting this autumn we propose a new program of collective reading on the main theories of property and poverty in modern philosophy.
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Public discussion with Dr. Richard STALLMAN
Monday, 9th of October, 2017, 6 pm, tranzit.ro/ Iaşi was honored to host a public talk with Richard Stallman.
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Nebojša MILIKIĆ: REHEARSAL OR RE_ENACTMENT OF CULTURAL POLITICS OF THE PETITE BOURGEOIS PARTY
Lecture-performance and public discussion /
Friday, 29th September 2017, 10 am
The Bastion Maria Theresia, Timişoara
A separate activity will be The Public Discussion about an Art Work in Ideological and Political Context with the participation of the Initiative of The Petit Bourgeois Party in Iaşi. The time will be announced on the 29th of September.
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Dr. Katarzyna BIELIŃSKA-KOWALEWSKA and Zbigniew Marcin KOWALEWSKI
Seminar // Petty-bourgeois strikes back: the middle class reveals its real face /
Monday, 14th of August, 5 – 8 pm
Tuesday, 15th of August, 5 – 8 pm
tranzit.ro/ Iași
Al. Lăpușneanu St. 7-9
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MINNA HENRIKSSON & SEZGIN BOYNIK: NATIONALISM AND CONTEMPORARY ART
Public presentation and seminar /
AUGUST 1st, 2017, 7 pm
AUGUST 2nd, 2017, 10 am – 4 pm
tranzit.ro/ Iaşi
Al. Lăpuşneanu Street, no. 7-9
A two-day discussion with Sezgin Boynik and Minna Henriksson: a presentation and a session discussing some important texts on nationalism.
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Ana SZEL: LAWS, NORMS AND REGULATIONS
Working Group And Public Presentation /
Saturday, 8th of July, 5 pm
tranzit.ro/ Iaşi
Al. Lăpuşneanu street, no. 7-9
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NATION AND NATIONALISM
Seminar conceived and coordinated by Marius-Alexandru DAN and Alexandru TÎRDEA /
8th and 9th of July 6, 2017
10 pm – 4 pm
tranzit.ro/ Iaşi
Al. Lăpuşneanu Street, no. 7-9
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OVIDIU POP | The Occidentalism of the Romanian Middle-Class: On Locality in Neoliberalism
Tuesday, 4th of July and Wednesday, the 5th of July, 4 p.m. – 6p.m. you may join us for two reading sessions with Ovidiu POP.
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A History of Economic Thought. Capital Speaks
Coordinated by Dana Domsodi /
21 June 2017, 11:00 am
tranzit. ro/ Cluj
Str. Brassai Samuel, nr. 5
read more /
Culture and Politics of Crisis V: Europe: Economic Crisis and Political Alternatives
with Mark Blyth & Michael Roberts /
Wednesday, 21st of June 2017, 6 pm
tranzit. ro/ Cluj
Str. Brassai Samuel, nr. 5
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A History of Economic Thought. Capital Speaks
Coordinated by Dana Domsodi /
14 June 2017, 7 pm
tranzit. ro/ Cluj
Str. Brassai Samuel, nr. 5
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Museums, Biennials and Politics
Presentation by Charles Esche /
Wednesday, 14 June 2017, 9 pm
tranzit. ro/ București
Str. Gazelei 44, sector 4
An event organized in partnership with PAV (Visual Art Platform), developed by Dan Perjovschi within FITS – The International Theatre Festival in Sibiu, 24th edition, 8-19 June 2017.
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ANDREA FACIU: TOUCHING THE CITY I-III
Artist talk /
Tuesday, 6th of June 2017, 6 pm
tranzit. ro/ Iași
Al. Lăpușneanu St. 7-9
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A History of Economic Thought. Capital Speaks
Coordinated by Dana Domsodi /
26 May 2017, 7 pm
tranzit.ro/ Cluj,
Brassai Samuel Street, no 5
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The Spontaneous Flora
Lecture by Professor Mihaela Ioana Georgescu /
Thursday, 25 May 2017, 6 pm
tranzit.ro/ București
Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4
An event curated by Iuliana Dumitru and Athena Dumitriu
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A History of Economic Thought. Capital Speaks
Coordinated by Dana Domsodi /
19 May 2017, 7 pm
tranzit.ro/ Cluj,
Brassai Samuel Street, no 5
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ARTA Magazine presents: Structural censorship, crackdown and resistance. What’ going on in the cultural politics in Hungary?
A talk by artportal.hu editor in chief Gergely Nagy /
Wednesday, 17 May 2017, 7 pm
tranzit.ro/ București
Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4
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art ft. politics 2
28 April 2017, 7 pm
tranzit.ro/ Cluj,
Str. Brassai Sámuel, nr. 5
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Soirée critique X
Claudiu Gaiu, Attila Szigeti, Cristian Nichitean /
21 April 2017, 6 pm
tranzit.ro/ Cluj,
Str. Brassai Sámuel, nr. 5
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A History of Economic Thought. Capital Speaks
Coordinated by Dana Domsodi /
20 April 2017, 7 pm
tranzit.ro/ Cluj,
Str. Brassai Sámuel, nr. 5
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The Magurele Laser: A Solution Looking for a Problem
Presentations and Discussion with Ana Bazac and Nicolae Zamfir
An event curated by Claudiu Cobilanschi
Thursday, 20 April 2017, 7 pm
tranzit.ro/ București
Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4
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Launching the Cluj Tenant Association
(Hosted event) /
8 April 2017, 7-11 pm
tranzit.ro/ Cluj,
Str. Brassai Sámuel, nr. 5
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Technologies of Love
Artist Talk with Ania Nowak /
Monday, 3 April 2017, 7:30 pm
tranzit.ro/ București
Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4
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A History of Economic Thought. Capital Speaks
Seminar VI /
Tuesday, 28 March 2017, 7 pm
tranzit.ro/ Cluj,
Str. Brassai Sámuel, nr. 5
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A History of Economic Thought. Capital Speaks
Seminar V /
Tuesday, 14 March 2017, 7 pm
tranzit.ro/ Cluj,
Str. Brassai Sámuel, nr. 5
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Christiane Erharter: Bees in Art
Tuesday, 7 March 2017, 6:45 pm
Tranzit Orangery
tranzit.ro/ București
Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4
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h.arta
A definition of politics in a physical form /
Tuesday, 7 March 2017, 6 pm
Tranzit Orangery
tranzit.ro/ București
Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4
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Katharina Koch: Feminist approaches in art curating
Tuesday, 7 March 2017, 7:30 pm
Tranzit Orangery
tranzit.ro/ București
Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4
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Nicoleta Esinencu: Book launch
Introduction by Nora Dorogan /
Tuesday, 7 March 2017, 8:15 pm
Tranzit Orangery
tranzit.ro/ București
Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4
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A history of economic thought. Capital speaks
Coordinated by Dana Domsodi /
Monday, February 27th 2017, 7 pm
tranzit.ro/ Cluj,
Brassai Sámuel St. 5
Coordinated by Dana Domsodi
read more /
A history of economic thought. Capital speaks
Coordonat de Dana Domsodi /
Monday, February 13th 2017, 7 pm
tranzit.ro/ Cluj,
Brassai Sámuel St. 5
Coordinated by Dana Domsodi
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Michaela Geboltsberger: The School of Kyiv - public presentation
Monday, 23rd of January 2017
tranzit.ro/ Iași
Al. Lăpușneanu St. 7-9
On Monday, 23rd of January, we invite you participate to the public presentation held by Michaela Geboltsberger about the second edition of the Kyiv Biennial from 2015 - The School of Kyiv.
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A history of economic thought. Capital speaks
Seminar 2 - Physiocracy /
Saturday, 17 December 2016, 6 pm
tranzit.ro/ Cluj,
Brassai Sámuel St. 5
Coordinated by Dana Domsodi
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Soirée Critique IX
Alt-Right: Funny Fascism /
Friday, 9 December 2016, 7 pm
tranzit.ro/ Cluj,
Brassai Sámuel St. 5
Introduction by Cristian Nichitean, Horațiu Nan și Alex Cistelecan
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Plant Shamanism and the Seven Gates of Wisdom
A presentation by Joanne Richardson /
Saturday, 26 November 2016, 7:30 pm
tranzit.ro/ București
Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4
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A Guide of Medicinal Plants
A presentation by Ovidiu Bojor /
Thursday, 24 November 2016, 7 pm
tranzit.ro/ București
Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4
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art ft. politics
moderated by Janka Visky /
Tuesday, November 22nd 2016, 7 pm
tranzit.ro/ Cluj,
Brassai Sámuel St. 5
moderated by Janka Visky
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A history of economic thought. Capital speaks
Coordinated by Dana Domsodi /
Friday, November 18th 2016, 6 pm
tranzit.ro/ Cluj,
Brassai Sámuel St. 5
Coordinated by Dana Domsodi
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Soirée Critique VIII - Prelude to the American Night
Introduction by Cristian Nichitean /
Tuesday, November 8th 2016, 6 pm
tranzit.ro/ Cluj,
Brassai Sámuel St. 5
Introduction by Cristian Nichitean
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Culture and Politics of Crisis IV
Interrogating Lenin and Polanyi. Alternatives for Today’s Left /
Friday, 28 October 2016, 6 pm
tranzit.ro/ Cluj,
Brassai Sámuel St. 5
Gareth Dale (Brunel University, London) and Tamás Krausz (Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, Budapest)
Moderators: Alex Cistelecan and Florin Poenaru
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Soirée Critique V
Brexit? Lexit? Romexit? /
Friday, July 8th 2016, 6 pm
tranzit.ro/ Cluj,
Brassai Sámuel St. 5
Guests: Lorin Ghiman and Alexandru-Vasile Sava
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Soirée Critique IV
Post-crisis University: Occupied, Evacuated, Reformed, Corporatized /
Thursday, 23rd June 2016, 6 pm
tranzit.ro/ Cluj,
Brassai Sámuel St. 5
Guests: Cristina Raț, Enikő Vincze, Alex Boguș and Norbert Petrovici
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Mona VĂTĂMANU & Florin TUDOR: Procesul (The Trial)
Screening and discussion with the authors /
29th of April 2016, 8 pm
tranzit.ro/ Iași
Al. Lăpușneanu St. 7-9
tranzit.ro/ Iași invites you to the screening of the Mona Vătămanu & Florin Tudor’s film Procesul (The Trial) (2004-2005).
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If it doesn't work, make it bigger
Prezentare de geheimagentur /
In the frame of Actopolis project
Monday, 11 April 2016, 7 pm
tranzit. ro/ București,
Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4
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Questioning Symposium - Echoes of Practices
tranzit. ro/ Cluj,
Str. Brassai Sámuel, nr. 5
Participants: Freja Bäckman, Ingrid Cogne, Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh, Gerardo Montes de Oca, Elske Rosenfeld, Attila Tordai-S.
18th-24th April 2016
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Soirées Critiques: Documented Actuality
tranzit. ro/ Cluj,
Str. Brassai Sámuel, nr. 5
A series of friendly, but no less serious, open discussions and theoretical analyses of the main themes of the day, seen from the perspective of the most relevant texts.
Organized by CriticAtac & tranzit. ro/ Cluj
Capital’s overaccumulation and postlabor
Friday, April 8th, 6 pm
Neuroexit (euroexit)!
Thursday, April 28th, 7 pm
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Establishing the Depository of the Initiative for the Petite Burgeois Party in Iași
Public presentation and working table with Nebojša Milikić, Livia Pancu, Ovidiu Gherasim-Proca and Florin Bobu /
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CULTURE AND POLITICS OF CRISIS III
Capitalism, Temporality, and the Crisis of Labor
Lecture by Moishe POSTONE
Professor of Modern History at the University of Chicago, Senior Fellow at IFK - Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften
Saturday, 19 March 2016, 6 pm.
tranzit.ro/ Cluj,
Str. Brassai Sámuel nr. 5
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I am not such a beautiful landscape
screening: 19th of March 2016, 7 p.m.
A film by: EMILIANO MONACO
With: Sigfùs Stefansson and Hjalti Gislason and with Fanney Björk Björnsdottir, Ólöf Gerður Sigfúsdóttir, Uni Pétursson
Italy/Iceland, 2011, 63’
A production Astarte
In co-production with Bíohljóð ehf
Distribution Vivo film
© 2011 A
tranzit. ro/ Iași,
Al. Lăpușneanu St. 7-9
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ART(S) / ARCHITECTURE(S) / TERRITORY(S) / PUBLIC(S) / SPACE(S) PIXEL [13] (Sabine THUILIER & Alexandre CUBIZOLLES), Marseille
Sunday, 21 February 2016, 7 pm
tranzit.ro/ Iași
Al. Lăpușneanu St. 7-9
Sunday evening, at tranzit.ro/ Iași PIXEL[13] collective will have a presentation of their recent artictic practice.
ART(S) / ARCHITECTURE(S) / TERRITORY(S) / PUBLIC(S) / SPACE(S)
PIXEL [13] (Sabine THUILIER & Alexandre CUBIZOLLES), Marseille.
PIXEL[13] is a French multidisciplinary and multi¬shaped artistic collective whose global approach decompartmentalizes disciplines and publics through contextualized site specific works, fed by a continuous reflection on the urbanity, the public spaces, the territories and their inhabitants.
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Gazette of Political Art #12
5th of February 2016, 6 pm.
tranzit.ro/ Cluj,
str. Brassai Samuel no. 5., Cluj
Launch of the Gazette of Political Art #12 /// In the name of the periphery: decolonial theory and intervention in the Romanian context.
Presentation held by the coordinators of issue 12th - Veda Popovici and Ovidiu Pop
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Public presentation of the project Artists as agents of institutional exchange
with Tinna Gudmundsdottir and Cristina David /
Friday, 29 January 2016, 7 pm
tranzit.ro/ Iași
Al. Lăpușneanu St. 7-9
tranzit.ro/ Iași invites you on Friday to take part at the public presentation of the project ”Artists as agents of institutional exchange” organized by tranzit.ro/ Iași in partnership with Skaftfell - Center for Visual Art, Seydisfjordur, Iceland.
In the frame of the presentation, we invited Tinna Gudmundsdottir, the director of Skaftfell and Cristina David, the artist in residency at Seydisfjordur, Iceland.
The presentation will be available live on the website www.tranzit.org, on the website www.skaftfell.is or on the website dedicated to the project: videostream.ro
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People, nation, collective features and behaviour:
Wednesday, 13 January 2015, 6 pm.
tranzit.ro/ Cluj,
str. Brassai Samuel no. 5., Cluj
Reactions to “The Psychology of the Romanians: The psychological profile of the Romanians in a cognitive-experimental monograph” by Daniel David
The recent publication of “The Psychology of the Romanians” has occasioned a series of reactions and controversies around the ideas of nation, nationhood and the manner in which these can be conceived of as either individual or collective entities. The present debate will follow up on some of these discussions, together with the author, on themes such as research methodology, scientificity, inter- and transdisciplinarity, as well as the political instrumentalization of academic research.
Participants: Daniel David
Critical apprisals: Călin Goina, Marius Lazăr, Raluca Perneș
Moderator: Norbert Petrovici
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Book presentation: Exotic Plants. The theory and practice of Romanian Marxists
27 November 2015, 6 pm.
tranzit. ro/Cluj,
Brassai Sámuel street, no 5., Cluj
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The Chomsky-Foucault Debate
Căminul Cultural presents two conferences as part of the series The Chomsky-Foucault Debate:
Nick Srnicek
Inventing The Future: Postcapitalism And A World Without Work
Saturday, 7 November 2015, 5 pm
and
Helen Hester
After Work: What's Left and Who Cares?
Monday, 9 November 2015, 7 pm
tranzit. ro/ București
Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4
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Screening: HAEGUE YANG ǀ ARTUR ŻMIJEWSKI ǀ JAN PETER HAMMER
Video - Forum ǀ Video collection of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) In Iași
tranzit.ro/ Iași, Al. Lăpușneanu St. 7-9
Saturday, October 31, 7 p.m.
Haegue Yang - Holiday Story, 2007, 00:13:11
Artur Żmijewski - Patricia, 2007, 00:16:43
Jan Peter Hammer - The Fable of the Bees, 2012, 00:08:35
This is the sixth presentation taking part of a 7 selections from Video-Forum (n.b.k.) which is also the oldest collection of video art from Germany. The project is taking place from July to October 2015.
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Manifesto For The Gynecene - Sketch For A New Geological Era
A discussion with Alexandra Pirici and Raluca Voinea /
29 October 2015, 7 pm
tranzit.ro/ București,
Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4
An event organized by Caminul Cultural
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The most common misconceptions about islam. Five things you must know about islam
27 october 2015, 7 pm.
tranzit.ro/Cluj
Str. Brassai Sámuel no 5, Cluj.
Lecture by Csilla Gyöngyösi
Moderated by Zsuzsa Selyem
Ordinary people do not know too much about Islam. They see migrants on TV, knowing that they are Muslims. Do we need to be afraid of their religion?
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„Summertime sadness”
Crisis at the Baltic Sea/ Criză la Marea Baltică /
Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu + Sana Ghobbeh
Screening and public presentation
tranzit.ro/ Iasi
Str. Al. Lăpusneanu 7-9
16 October 2015, 7 pm.
tranzit.ro/ Iasi hereby invites you to the screening of the video Crisis at the Baltic Sea / Criză la Marea Baltică, made by artists Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu + Sana Ghobbeh, and to attend a presentation of how it was made, as well as of the recent activity of the artists Silvia Amancei and Bogdan Armanu.
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Screening: SHAHRAM ENTEKHABI ǀ SAMIRA ESKANDARFAR ǀ JAYCE SALLOUM ǀ URSULA BIEMANN
Video - Forum ǀ Video collection of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) In Iași
tranzit.ro/ Iași, Al Lăpușneanu St. 7-9
Monday, Octombrie 5, 2 p.m.
Shahram Entekhabi - Happy Meal, 2004, 00:12:38
Samira Eskandarfar - A Dowry for Mahrou, 2006, 00:06:05
Jayce Salloum - Untitled Part 3B (As If) Beauty never ends.., 2003, 00:11:04
Ursula Biemann - Sahara Chronicle, 2006-2009, 00:45:55
This is the fifth presentation taking part of a 7 selections from Video-Forum (n.b.k.) which is also the oldest collection of video art from Germany. The project is taking place from July to October 2015.
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Screening: NATE HARRISON | NIKLAS GOLDBACH | MUNTEAN / ROSENBLUM | MELANIE SHATZKY & BRIAN CASSIDY
Video - Forum ǀ Video collection of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) in Iași
tranzit.ro/ Iași, Al Lăpușneanu St. 7-9
Sunday, September 27, 7:30 p.m.
Nate Harrison - Aura dies hard (Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Copy), 2010
Niklas Goldbach - Habitat C3B, 2008
Muntean / Rosenblum - Not to be. Not to be at all., 2003
Melanie Shatzky & Brian Cassidy - The Delaware project, 2007
This is the fourth presentation taking part of a 7 selections from Video-Forum (n.b.k.) which is also the oldest collection of video art from Germany. The project is taking place from July to October 2015.
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Screening: EIJA-LIISA AHTILA ǀ KATYA SANDER ǀ URSULA BIEMANN
Video - Forum ǀ Video collection of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) in Iași
tranzit.ro/ Iași, Al Lăpușneanu St. 7-9
Sunday, September 20, 7:30 p.m.
Eija-Liisa Ahtila - If 6 Was 9, 1995
Katya Sander - Exterior City, 2005
Ursula Biemann - Performing the Border, 1999
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Screening: Eduardo Paolozzi ǀ Peter Leake/Keith Griffith
Video - Forum ǀ Video collection of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) In Iași{/b} /
tranzit.ro/ Iași, Al Lăpușneanu St. 7-9
Sunday, September 13, 7:30 p.m.
Eduardo Paolozzi - History of Nothing
Peter Leake/Keith Griffith - Mr. Machine. A Film for Eduardo Paolozzi
This is the second presentation taking part of a 7 selections from Video-Forum (n.b.k.) which is also the oldest collection of video art from Germany. The project is taking place from July to October 2015.
The selection that will be screened on Sunday, 13th of September is realized by Cristian Nae.
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Alexandra Croitoru - Presentation and discussion with Cristian Nae
tranzit.ro/ Iași,
Al. Lăpușneanu St. 7-9
Friday, 14 August, 7:30 pm.
tranzit.ro/ Iași invites you to take part on Friday, August 14, in the presentation of the research carried out by Alexandra Croitoru on the cult of Brâncuşi in Romania, in the shape of a discussion with Cristian Nae. The presentation is part of the art residency undertaken by Alexandra at tranzit.ro/ Iași in August 2015.
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OBERLIHT: presentation with Vladimir US & Vitalie SPRÎNCEANĂ
Friday, 3rd of July 2015, 7 p.m.
tranzit.ro/ Iaşi,
Lăpușneanu Street,
No. 7-9
tranzit.ro/ Iași is inviting you for the public presentation of the artist and curator Vladimir Us, co-founder of Oberliht Association, Chișinău and of sociologist Vitalie Sprînceană, co-founder of platform of critical thinking PLATZFORMA.md.
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Georg Lukács, “Reification and the consciousness of the proletariat”, in History and Class Consciousness
Reading seminar: Legacies of modernity 2014-2015 /
Coordinated by Alex Cistelecan
Special guest: G.M.Tamas
19 June 2015, 5 pm.
tranzit. ro/ Cluj,
str. Brassai S. nr.5, Cluj
For our last meeting in the series of seminars on the Legacies of Modernity, we invite you to a discussion of a nodal text from the Marxist tradition. A work situated at the intersection of three lines of fracture,
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fanfic
presentation by Antónia Belcher /
Wednesday, 17 june, 7 pm.
tranzit.ro/Cluj,
str. Brassai S. nr.5
There is an online subculture based on writing stories about characters in mainstream media. The creators have no copyright and can’t sell anything, so they developed a scene with peculiar ways
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The Sectarians. Small trilogy of the marginals
by Vasile Ernu /
tranzit.ro/ Cluj invites you to the release of the volume
The Sectarians. Small trilogy of the marginals by Vasile Ernu
Friday 12 June, 6 pm
tranzit.ro/ Cluj, str. Brassai S. nr.5.
Guests: Aurel Codoban, Marius Lazăr, Alex Cistelecan
The book was published by Polirom Publishing House in 2015.
The sects have always been marginal religious cults, less noticed by the rest of the world, usually creating fear and distrust.
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Vegetal
A conversation with the writers Dănuț Ungureanu & Marian Truță and the literary critic Mihai Iovănel /
A conversation with the writers Dănuț Ungureanu & Marian Truță and the literary critic Mihai Iovănel, starting from the book with the same title, published by the two authors in the collection “Nautilus – science fiction” of Nemira Publishing House in 2014.
Wednesday, 10 June 2015, 6-8 pm
tranzit.ro/ București, Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4
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Reading seminar: Legacies of modernity 2014-2015
Special guest: G.M.Tamas.
24 April 2015, 6 pm.
tranzit. ro/ Cluj
str. Brassai S. nr.5, Cluj
Alfred Sohn-Rethel, Intellectual labor and manual labor
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Leftist feminism in contemporary eastern-european literature
21 April 2015, 7 pm.
Brassai S. street no.5, Cluj
special guest: Zsófia Lóránd
moderated by: Zsuzsa Selyem
The discussion (EN) will focus on local varieties of gender issues, such as equity in education, politics, urban spaces, working rights, domestic life etc. having in sight the global enclosures as well as the local dictatorial heritages.
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Out of Time, Out of Place: Public Art (Now) talk
Live streaming from Whitechapel Gallery, London /
16th April 2015
9 p.m. - 11 p.m.
tranzit.ro/ Iaşi
7-9 Al. Lăpuşneanu St.
tranzit.ro/ Iași is going to be together with Claire Doherty and Magdalena Malm, our ENPAP colleagues with the occasion of launching the Out of Time, Out of Place: Public Art (Now) publication.
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The paradoxical post-communist utopia of artist-led-spaces in Bucharest
A round-table discussion organized and moderated by Igor Mocanu /
Participants: Adrian Guță, Farid Fairuz, Nicu Ilfoveanu, Simona Dumitriu, Suzana Dan, Veda Popovici
Monday, 9 March 2015, 7:30 pm
tranzit.ro/ București, Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4
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Book launch „Artist book: Ioana Nemeș”
25 February 2015, 7 pm
tranzit.ro/ Cluj,
Brassai Street. no.5, Cluj
“Artist book: Ioana Nemeș” is edited by Alina Șerban and Ștefania Ferchedău and copublished by pepluspatru Association (Bucharest) and Spector Books (Leipzig). Contributors are curators, art historians and artists with whom Ioana Nemeș closely collaborated for the exhibitions showing ....
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Reading seminar: Legacies of modernity, 2014 - 2015
Coordonated by Alex Cistelecan /
After our discussions on Marx’s Capital, we start again our reading seminars at tranzit.ro/ Cluj with four fundamental texts of the socialist theory and in a brand new format, with the extraordinary participation of G.M. Tamás.
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Povestașul: RAM – Media Art Festival, Arad
Presentation by Luminița Apostu, Florin Bobu și Ionuț Toma /
tranzit.ro/ Iaşi, Al. Lăpușneanu street 7-9
Thursday, 27 November 2014, 7 pm.
tranzit.ro/ Iași is continuing The storyteller series with a presentation realized from the perspective of the traveler to RAM – Media Art Festival, Arad.
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Book launch - 'The Era of Traian Băsescu/ Epoca Traian Basescu'
Thursday, 20 November 2014, 7 pm
tranzit. ro/ Cluj,
Brassai Samuel Street, nr. 5
We are inviting you to the launching of the book - The Era of Traian Băsescu (Florin Poenaru, Costi Rogozanu coordinators, Tact 2014) followed by a debate about Romania in the last decade.
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Grassroots
Screening and presentation with George Doroș /
Al. Lăpușneanu street 7-9
Friday, 7th of November 2014, 7 p.m.
tranzit. ro/ Iaşi is pleased to announce the presentation of George Doros, a presentation which will include two projects developed in the past two years: Oțelul Galați, Romania’s Champion and Chess Club Corod.
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Artist Book: Cristina David / Cezar Lăzărescu
Turbo book launch /
tranzit.ro/ Iași, Al. Lăpușneanu Street 7-9
Friday, 24 October 2014, 7 p.m.
In the '80s, fluorescent colours, the so-called "neon" colours, marked pop culture in the West; later on, in Romania, in the early '90s, these colours were highlighting the shift towards another aesthetic register, characteristic for the so-called "transition" period – from socialism to capitalism. Leggings, bracelets, miniskirts, tee-shirts, footballs, backpacks, pens, lollypops, pencil cases, chewing gum wrappers etc. were slightly more valuable for the children and adolescents of those years when they were adorned by one or several of these fluorescent colours. In an apparently bizarre twist, but most likely due to an arcane algorithm of fashion, a new popular reconsideration of these colours it taking place nowadays.
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Towards an understanding of the Anthropocene landscapes
Presentation by Axel Braun /
Tuesday, 14 October 2014, 7 pm
tranzit.ro/ București, Str. Gazelei, nr. 44, sector 4
An event organized together with Goethe-Institut Bucharest.
“Large scale technologies, like reservoirs and hydro power plants, are perfect examples for how humans alter landscapes to satisfy their growing needs. This artistic research project aims to investigate the relation of power and responsibility in the context of...
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The storyteller
Presentation with Delia Bulgaru and Andrei Pripasu /
Friday, 10 October 2014, 7 pm
tranzit.ro/
Iași, Al. Lăpușneanu Street 7-9
tranzit.ro/ Iași is opening this autumn with a presentation realized from the perspective of the traveler to the 14th International Architecture Biennale in Venice. The invitation towards the two guests was inspired by the novel ”The storyteller” (El Hablador, 1987) of the Peruan writer Mario Vargas Llosa in which the main character Saul Zuratas travels in the diffuse territory of a dispersed community and succeeds through his stories to function as a binder in the structure of the collective memory of that community.
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From below and to the left: the revolutionary law of indigenous women and the decolonial cosmovision
Presentation and discussion with Sylvia Marcos and Ovidiu Țichindeleanu /
On the occasion of the launch of the new book collection PLURITOPIC at IDEA Publishing House, with the book of Sylvia Marcos, “Femeile indigene și cosmoviziunea decolonială”.
Monday, 6 October 2014, 7 pm
tranzit.ro/ București, Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4
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Is political news real? Or is it only a fiction that covers economic interests?
- an evening with artists Jacopo Tomassini and Rikke Ehlers Nilsson - /
Italian artist Jacopo Tomassini and Danish artist Rikke Ehlers Nilsson, both of them currently in residence at Bucharest Air, have come together to present their individual practices in order to start a conversation about European identity, Bucharest’s new landscape and the visual economy they are researching for their artistic works.
Thursday, 31st of July 2014, from 7 pm
tranzit.ro/ Bucuresti, Str. Gazelei nr. 44
This event is part of the residency of artists Jacopo Tomassini and Rikke Ehlers Nilsson at Bucharest Air.
http://www.bucharestair.com/#news
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Choice words in the picture
Presentation by Oana Toderică /
Friday, 25th July 2014, at 19.00h
tranzit.ro/ Iaşi
Al. Lăpuşneanu Street No. 7-9
This Friday, responding once more to a proposal coming from a Iaşi based artist, tranzit.ro/ Iaşi invites you to a presentation starting with the yet unrealized project "Cuvinte Alese în Peisaj" ("Choice words in the picture"), an art project initiated and carried out by artist Oana Toderică Moraru. The encounter with her artistic practice was made possible due to the "Guest Teacher" programme.
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Ion Grigorescu. Diaries 1970-1975
Bucharest book launch /
tranzit.at & tranzit.ro/ Bucureşti invite you to the launch of the book:
Ion Grigorescu
Diaries 1970-1975
Edited by Georg Schöllhammer and Andreiana Mihail.
Translations by Nicolae Dumitru.
Published by Sternberg Press, 2014
Bucharest launch: Tuesday, 10 June 2014, 7pm
tranzit.ro/ Bucureşti, Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4
With the participation of: Ion Grigorescu, Andreiana Mihail, Georg Schöllhammer and Alina Şerban
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Walking Sounds
Sound walk with Maria Balabaș and Daria Ghiu; concert with Maria and Mihai Balabaș /
“Walking sounds” with Maria Balabaș and Daria Ghiu – sound walk in the Filaret-Unirii neighbourhood
Saturday, 7 June 2014, 12-2 pm
Concert with Maria and Mihai Balabaș
Saturday, 7 June 2014, 7 pm
Meeting point for the walk and concert venue: tranzit.ro/ Bucureşti, Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4
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Conference: Culture and Politics of Crisis II.
Marxism and post colonialism: Which counterhegemonic narrative for the post-communist East? /
29 May 2014, 7 pm.
tranzit.ro/ Cluj
str. Brassai Sámuel no. 5
Speakers:
Anselm Jappe: Professor of philosophy, aesthetics and critical theory, teaching in Italy, member of the Krisis group from Nuremberg; author of numerous essays and several books, including Guy Debord (1992), Les aventures de la marchandise. Pour une nouvelle critique de la valeur (2002), and Credit a mort. La decomposition du capitalisme et ses critiques (2011).
Aakash Singh Rathore: Research Professor at the Center for Ethics and Global Politics, LUISS University, Rome. He is author/editor of several books, including Indian Political Thought (2010), From Political Theory to Political Theology (2010), The Future of Political Theology (2012).
Moderators:
Alex Cistelecan
Veronica Lazăr
BOOK LAUNCH
30 May 2014, 2 pm.
With the participation of the authors:
Anselm Jappe: The adventures of the merchandise: For a new critic of the value
Tact Publishing House, Cluj,
presented by Alex Cistelecan
G.M. Tamás: Postfascism and anticommunism. Philosophical-Political Interventions
Tact Publishing House, Cluj.
presented by Attila Szigeti
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We Could Have Had It All: Itziar BARRIO
Presentation and screening /
Thursday, 15th of May 2014, 7.30 p.m., at the new location of tranzit.ro/ Iași.
Alexandru Lăpușneanu Street
No. 7-9, Iași
In 2012, Itziar BARRIO was commissioned to realize a new work in the frame of ”Going Public, Telling as it is?” - ENPAP Symposium in Bilbao. The project ”We could Have had it all” was the result of her re-encounter with her native city in relation with her own topics of research and Consonni team, the institution that coordinated the production of the project in the frame of the European Network for Public Art Producers’s final event. Back in time, it was a question that transformed this work into an on-going process: “How would you transform this work into a site specific project somewhere else?”, a question that was based on a very personal, basic juxtaposition of images of the Arriaga Theatre in Bilbao and the National Theatre in Iași.
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River School Bucharest
Tour of the Văcărești Bucharest Delta
9 May 2014, 2-4 pm
River School Seminar
9 May 2014, 5-8 pm
tranzit.ro/ Bucureşti
Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4, Bucharest
Presentations and a discussion on the planetary dimensions of energy and ecology, with artist Ursula Biemann, social anthropologist Miruna Tîrcă, and curators Maja and Reuben Fowkes, moderated by Raluca Voinea, curator tranzit.ro/ Bucureşti. The River School Seminar is followed by the opening of the exhibition Like a Bird: Avian Ecologies in Contemporary Art.
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Self Organised
tranzit.ro/ Iași invites you to participate on Friday, 2nd of May at 7 p.m. at the anthology launch of ”Self Organised Subjects” followed by a discussion between Stine Hebert, one of the editors of the book, and Livia Pancu, curator of tranzit.ro/ Iași.
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Congress of Pessimism
A series of lectures presented by The Bureau of Melodramatic Research /
For four evenings this week, darkness will resurrect the grim spirits during The Congress of Pessimism. The Bureau of Melodramatic Research presents:
Nicola Masciandaro: A Matter of Sorrow: The Trouble with Not Being Born & Following the Sigh
Wednesday 23rd of April, 19:00
Thursday 24th of April, 19:00
Ben Woodard: This Wandering Insignificance: The Desert of Reason & The Sea of Nature
Saturday 26th of April, 17:00
Sunday 27th of April, 17:00
Where:
tranzit. ro/ București,
Str. Gazelei, nr. 44, sector 4
More: http://thebureauofmelodramaticresearch.blogspot.ro/
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tranzit.ro/Iaşi: Cristina DAVID and Mikkel ROSENGAARD Presentation
Friday, 11th of April 2014, 7.30 p.m.,
at the new location of tranzit.ro/ Iaşi:
tranzit.ro/ Iaşi
Alexandru Lăpuşneanu Street
No. 7-9
Iași
On the 11th of April 2014 at 19.30 we are welcoming you to join us for the presentation of a work in progress project, a presentation that aims to set the grounds for different expectations.
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An informal discussion about permaculture with Rakesh
Organized by Transition Towns Romania within the Tranzit Garden /
An informal discussion about permaculture with Rakesh
Organized by Transition Towns Romania within the Tranzit Garden
4 April 2014, 7 pm
tranzit.ro/ București, Str. Gazelei, nr. 44, sector 4
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tranzit.ro/ Cluj - Seminars on Modernity (Revisiting Modern Legacy)
coordinated by Alex Cistelecan /
The series of seminars continues at tranzit. ro/ Cluj,
Venue:
tranzit. ro/ Cluj,
Brassai Sámuel St., no. 5, Cluj
Karl Marx, Capital, vol. 3
The seminar will revisit the Marxist critique of value in some classical and contemporary texts, with the guiding question whether this is an avant la lettre Weberian critique of modernity as rule of instrumental reason, or a determinate critique of capitalism as a particular and contingent historical formation.
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Book launch and open discussion: Which side are you on?
book launch moderated by Florin Poenaru /
Time: Friday, 21 February 2014, 7 pm.
Venue: tranzit. ro/ Cluj, Brassai Sámuel Street, no. 5, Cluj-Napoca
After the book launch, there will be a discussion moderated by the members of the CriticAtac online editorial on the theme Which side are you on?
After months of protests in which most of the observers and of the participants still refused to recognize a potential anti-capitalist movement, after tens of public delimitations and retractions from any articulated critique of the ongoing economic injustice, perhaps the shortest way to revive and coagulate the left would consist in identifying our common enemies.
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Five Times Bucharest/ Olivia Mihălțianu & How to Make Your First Million/ Bogdan Costin
Film screening and public reading /
Tuesday, 18 February 2014, 7 pm
tranzit. ro/ București, Str. Gazelei, nr. 44, sector 4
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“Reclaiming the City” by Ștefan Rusu
Followed by a discussion with Alma Cazacu, Ștefan Ghenciulescu and Andra Matzal. /
Goethe-Institut București and tranzit.ro/ București invite you to the screening of the film:
“Reclaiming the City” by Ștefan Rusu
Followed by a discussion with Alma Cazacu, Ștefan Ghenciulescu and Andra Matzal.
Friday, 7 February 2014, 6 pm
Address: tranzit. ro/ București, Str. Gazelei, nr. 44, sector 4
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tranzit.ro/ Cluj - Seminars on Modernity (Revisiting Modern Legacy)
coordinated by Alex Cistelecan /
The seminar will revisit the Marxist critique of value in some classical and contemporary texts, with the guiding question whether this is an avant la lettre Weberian critique of modernity as rule of instrumental reason, or a determinate critique of capitalism as a particular and contingent historical formation.
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tranzit.ro/ Bucureşti - CHIŞINĂU - CITY DIFFICULT TO PRONOUNCE
Screening and discussion with Pavel Brăila /
Chişinău - city difficult to pronounce
Screening and discussion with Pavel Brăila
Friday, 18 November 2013, 6pm
tranzit.ro/ Bucureşti, Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4
An event organized by Goethe-Institut Bucharest and tranzit.ro/ Bucureşti.
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tranzit.ro/ Iaşi – Screening
tranzit.ro/ Iaşi - Screening "My Time", a project by Dragoș Alexandrescu
26.09.2013, 6 pm
Iaşitex building, 7th floor
B-dul Primăverii no. 2,
Iaşi
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tranzit.ro/ Iaşi – Presentation and workshop with Nebojsa Milikić
Starting on Monday, 22nd of July and continuing on Tuesday, 23rd and Wednesday, 24th of July, tranzit.ro/ Iași is inviting you to join a presentation and a two days workshop with the cultural worker, researcher and activist, Nebojsa Milikić. Continuing its series of presentions, where each guest could disscuss very specific, sometimes niche subjects related to the artistic practice, tranzit.ro/ Iași invited our guest to give a lecture on paleontology, a subject researched by Milikić both in his BA and MA studies in Belgrade, but also in the years after. This will be his first presentation of this kind in his artistic and cultural activity. The days after he will conduct a workshop on what he calls "writing political (auto)biographies".
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tranzit.ro/ Iaşi - Workshops: Yes, no, maybe...
Presentation by Liliana Basarab /
This Thursday, tranzit.ro/ Iaşi welcomes you to a presentation by Liliana Basarab. Invited to speak about her use of “workshop” as a working methodology in constructing art projects, the artist is offering a brief introduction below, while waiting for your participation on the 11th of July.
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tranzit.ro/ Iaşi - Romanian Kiosk Company
Presentation by Mircea Nicolae /
tranzit.ro/ Iaşi – Romanian Kiosk Company
Romanian Kiosk Company project - presentation by Mircea Nicolae
tranzit.ro/ Iași, 27.06.2013, 7-8 pm
This Thursday, tranzit.ro/ Iaşi welcomes you to a presentation by Mircea Nicolae. Invited to discuss in detail about the becoming, the trajectory and the life after display of a project of his choice, the artist opted for the project Romanian Kiosk Company.
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tranzit.ro/ Cluj - Social Forum Cluj-Napoca: The Commons of the Left
We invite you to Cluj, between 24-26 May 2013, to discuss about our collective and individual activists struggles carried out in different arenas and around multiple issues. Our emancipatory projects are related to fundamental aspects for us as individuals and for our collective survival and dignity. We want a just world, in which issues of living in society can be politicized, transformed and negotiated collectively. Authority over the structure of the social fabric is to be held collectively. While we may prioritize differently what the central issues or the central node of emancipation are, our strength is that we can see them as interrelated. Even if not always explicitly, we carry these fights together.
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tranzit.ro/ Iaşi - ZOO-TOPIA
Book launch and presentation by Eszter Steierhoffer /
ZOO-TOPIA book launch and presentation
by Eszter Steierhoffer
tranzit.ro/ Iași, 17.05.2013, 7-8 pm
The ZOO-TOPIA publication was conceived as an exhibition in book format, bringing together a wide range of artistic positions and works. The starting point of ZOO-TOPIA was the display histories and architectural setting within zoos, the spatial articulation of a cultural history of Modern times.
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tranzit.ro/ Bucuresti - Utopian Vestiges: The Phalanx from Scaeni
tranzit.ro/ Bucureşti
UTOPIAN VESTIGES: THE PHALANX FROM SCĂENI
Friday, 22 March 2013, 18h30, tranzit.ro/ Bucureşti, Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4: presentations and discussions with Adrian Dohotaru, Ştefan Tiron and Ion Dumitrescu. Screening of the film „Falansterul”, 1979, directed by Savel Ştiopul.
Saturday, 23 March 2013, 11h30, Casa de Cultură from Boldeşti-Scăeni: roundtable together with local personalities from Boldeşti-Scăeni.
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tranzit.ro/ Bucuresti - Debate and book launch with CriticAtac
A year since the 2012 protests + launch of CriticAtac 2012 Anthology /
On the occasion of the publication of CriticAtac 2012 Anthology (published by Editura TACT, Cluj), you are invited to a book launch and debate, starting from what was probably the most important event with political implications lately: the social movements from January 2012.
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tranzit.ro/ Iasi - Young Artists Teaching Art: Oana Maria Nae, Lavinia German, Dumitru Oboroc
tranzit.ro/ Iaşi invites you to a discussion with Lavinia German, Oana Maria Nae and Dumitru Oboroc, three young educators that, after finishing the art studies, have chosen to tech art or the history and theory of art in different departments of the “G. Enescu” Art University from Iasi.
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tranzit.ro/ Bucuresti - Silver Academy - a project by Pavel Sterec
An event organized by the Czech Centre Bucharest /
Together with our friends from the Czech Centre in Bucharest we're inviting you to an event by Pavel Sterec - an occasion also to preview our tranzit.ro space in Bucharest. With smell of fresh paint, some tools still around, hot tea and a vivid discussion about education at any age.
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tranzit.ro/ Iasi - discussion with Dan Acostioaei and Bogdan Chelariu
tranzit.ro/ Iaşi invites for a dialogue the artist Dan Acostioaei and Bogdan Chelariu, PhD researcher in Social-Political sciences at University “Alexandru Ioan Cuza”, Iaşi. tranzit.ro/ Iaşi’s intention is to continue the discussion regarding the practices of some art institutions to commission new contemporary art works.
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tranzit.ro/ Iasi - discussion with Matei Bejenaru and Cristian Nae
tranzit.ro/ Iasi invites for a dialogue the artist Matei Bejenaru and the art critic and theoretician Cristian Nae. tranzit.ro/ Iasi intention is to initiate a discussion regarding the practices of some art institutions to commission new contemporary art works from artists selected by the respective institutions. The dialogue will analyze this practice in a local and international context, taking as a study case the project On beauty: building a darkroom…
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tranzit.ro/ Cluj - Culture and Politics of Crisis
Debate, book launch and inauguration of tranzit.ro/ Cluj space /
On the occasion of opening the new tranzit.ro/ Cluj space (Sámuel Brassai st., no. 5) tranzit.ro and Tact publishing house are inviting you to participate to the public debate on the topic:
Culture and Politics of Crisis
Participants:
Boris Buden (Professor, Faculty of Arts and Design, Bauhaus University, Weimar)
G. M. Tamás (Researcher, Philosophy Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest)
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tranzit.ro/ Iasi - presentation by the Satellite Group
Friday, November 2nd 2012, 18.30 hours, tranzit.ro/ Iasi invites you to the presentation of the unrealized projects of the artist-group Satellites (Social Artistic Tendency Group). The group was formed in 2010 in extension of their members’ artistic studies at the Iasi art university.
tranzit.ro/ Iasi - Iasitex building, B-dul Primaverii nr. 2, Iasi
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tranzit.ro/ Iasi - presentations by Luminita Apostu and Daniela Palimariu
tranzit.ro/ Iasi invites you on Friday, 26th of October to a meeting with Luminita Apostu and Daniela Palimariu, following their participations in the Salzburg Summer Academy in 2012.
tranzit.ro/ Iasi office - 26.10.2012 - 18h00 - Iasitex building, 7th floor, B-dul Primaverii no. 2, Iasi
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tranzit.ro/ Iasi - Back to the institution: Iasi/ Bari - presentation by Vlad Morariu
At tranzit.ro/ Iasi office Vlad Morariu, theorist and curator will present his experience with vessel platform from Bari, Italy. On Monday, 15th of October 2012, 18:30h, Iasitex building, 7th floor, B-dul Primaverii nr. 2, Iasi.
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tranzit.ro/ Cluj - lecture Culture States by Société Réaliste
tranzit.ro/ cluj
In the frame of the project
“Fiction, Rhetoric and Facts”
28 June 2012, 17 :00h
Babes Bolyai University, Department of Sociology, str. Plugarilor 34, Cluj
Lecture by Ferenc Gróf and Jean-Baptiste Naudy (Société Réaliste)
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tranzit.ro/ Iasi presents first events in the series Hard Fact
lecture, screening and propaganda trips /
On the 11th and 12th of June 2012 tranzit.ro is launched in Iaşi with the presentation of Hard Fact, a series of events curated by Livia Pancu.
- 11 June – 18:00h – lecture by Jesse McKee, curator of the Walter Phillips Gallery at The Banff Centre, Canada, followed by the screening of a video and text work by Montreal based artist, Sophie Bélair Clement. The event takes place at the tranzit.ro office in Iaşi.
- 12 June – throughout the day – propaganda trips in the city of Iaşi, organized by tranzit.ro for Anca Benera, Arnold Estefan, Cezar Lăzărescu and Jesse McKee.
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