Reading Evald Ilyenkov
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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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DANILO PRNJAT: Can We Really Work Together?
Workshop on Alternative Economies with Danilo Prnjat / sk /
April 24, 2025, 2:00 – 6:30 pm
/ tranzit.sk / Beskydská 12 / Bratislava /
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Ifor Duncan and Stefanos Levidis: Weaponizing a River
Media lecture at tranzit sk / sk /
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Liminal Ecologies: Thresholds of Transition and Entanglement
Exhibition at tranzit sk / sk /
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Wild, Uncultivated and Spontaneous at La Casa Encendida, Madrid
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Tranzit Garden and Cosmos Garden are included in the Festival
Wild, Uncultivated and Spontaneous at La Casa Encendida, Madrid
18 March – 6 April 2025
As part of the Salvajes, Silvestres y Espontáneas 2025 festival at La Casa Encendida, Paisanaje collective in Madrid creates a mural-diagram installation, which presents an open map of projects that reinterpret community gardens as spaces for learning and experimentation.
Paisanaje, with its dual curatorial and artistic nature, presents a selection of initiatives that, from different cities, are exploring new ways of inhabiting the world alongside other species. These gardens invite us to imagine alternative relationships with living beings, where scientific knowledge intertwines with the poetics of our coexistence with plants, animals, and fungi.
Installed on the mezzanine wall, the exhibition functions as a living archive—a space for the exchange of knowledge and the convergence of inspiring proposals. Eight invited projects will share documents, photographs, audio recordings, and manifestos, allowing connections to emerge between their experiences and those of visitors to the space.
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Meet New Residents: Aliza Orlan & David Apakidze
They will create commissioned artworks for the Biennale Matter of Art 2026 / cz /
Preparations for the Biennale Matter of Art 2026 have already started! Throughout March 2025, tranzit.cz has been hosting two residencies in cooperation with the A-i-R MeetFactory program. You can catch a sneak peek of their upcoming work during the open studios event Soiré in MeetFactory on March 25, 2025 from 6 p.m.
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Mimosa Pudica
Residency of artist Valentina Vetturi and a get-together on 12 April 2025 / ro /
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
Int. Primaverii no. 10, Silistea Snagovului village
After more than 10 years since her first collaboration with tranzit.ro/Bucharest, artist Valentina Vetturi returns, this time in relation to Mimosa Pudica, her performative research on how learning about their memory with plants can inform principles of digital ecologies.
“At the core of this research are two questions that have fueled my artistic practice for over a decade: how do we remember and forget individually and as a society? And what remains of us when we no longer remember anything or if we remember too much? The movement, the space created between the experiences of forgetting and remembering, shapes the essence, the core of our mutating, hybrid, multiple identities as individuals and collectives. Over the years, I have sought answers to these questions in the persistence of music in human memory. I have looked at web technologies and the depths of their permanent records, and I have observed the fragile memory of papier-mâché dissolving in water. With Mimosa Pudica, I turn to the plant world. Inverting the human-centric perspective, I activate listening, observation, interaction, and learning practices with plants, questioning how they remember and if they forget. This individual listening phase alternates with discursive practices and shared experiences among plants and scholars from diverse disciplines and machines.
During the residency at the Station, we’ll observe some of the plants of the Cosmos Garden and invite a few Mimosa Pudica in the conversation. An ongoing observation in collaboration with tranzit.ro will begin in these days and last until September and maybe more. Parallelly, similar ongoing observations are running physically and remotely in Bari, London, and Hagen.
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Sráč Sam: I Promise
The exhibition opening will take place in Prague's Art Space SVĚTOVA 1 on March 14, 2025 / cz /
I Promise is an art project conceived by Sráč Sam and curated by Tereza Stejskalová and František Fekete in the gallery SVĚTOVA 1. The exhibition is organized by the tranzit.cz initiative in the gallery SVĚTOVA 1. The public opening of the exhibition will take place on March 14, 2025, and the exhibition will run until May 10, 2025. Admission is free of charge.
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Protest as a tool for social change – organizing protest in practice
sk /
Talks by Verona Němcová, Adam Straka and Daniel Vadas
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Spring works at the Station
ro /
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
Int. Primaverii no. 10, Silistea Snagovului village, north of Bucharest, Romania
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The Station is a participatory place, where the fruits of the earth are more plentiful when grown with a multiplicity of hands, where the songs of birds reverberate through many ears that are willing to hear them, where we see the generosity of the plants in return for us taking care of them and where we can touch the stories of those who helped building the structures we use. If you want to take part in this process, of planting, building, mending, accompanied by cooking, listening, remembering, drop us a line at raluca.voinea@tranzit.org. The open sessions usually take place on Saturdays.
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Stolen Past, Threatened Future
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Exhibition curated by Matilda Cherednichenko and organized by Office Ukraine Vienna in cooperation with solidarity matters
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Fellowships for Curators and Artists at Salzburg Summer Academy 2025
CALL for APPLICATIONS now open until 6 April 2025 / hu /
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CALL for APPLICATIONS now open until 6 April 2025
ERSTE Foundation offers fourteen fellowships for young artists and emerging curators from Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine to take part in a course of their choice at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg 2025.
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Fellowships for Curators and Artists at Salzburg Summer Academy 2025
CALL for APPLICATIONS now open until 6 April 2025 / hu /
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Fellowships for Curators and Artists at Salzburg Summer Academy 2025
CALL for APPLICATIONS now open until APRIL 6th, 2025 / ro /
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ERSTE Foundation is main partner of tranzit:
