Mihaela Moldovan: The Endless Thread of Hope
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tranzit.ro/București and The Last Archive present:
Mihaela Moldovan: The Endless Thread of Hope
21 December 2024, 2-6 p.m.
A temporary intervention at the Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
Int. Primaverii no. 10, Silistea Snagovului village
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A ball of straws is wrapped in a lacery made from fragile but strong cord, bringing together the organic and modest material that forms the core of the work and the thread as a long-standing symbol of connectedness in the world and to the other layers of life. Situated in the field and interacting with the natural elements, the object becomes a small sun fallen on the ground, a glimmer of colour and hope during the short winter days. Gradually, surrounded by the growing vegetation in spring and baked by the real sun in summer, the ball of straws and string will become and belong to the earth, will disappear into the landscape which, for a short while, it had attempted to treat as an upside down sky.
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A Fable for Tomorrow – Imran Channa & Kateryna Lysovenko
Guided Exhibition Tour, Talk and Office Ukraine Get Together at philomena+ Vienna / at /
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Office Ukraine. Two Years of Support for Ukrainian Artists – Book Presentation in Linz
Decmber 5, 2024, 6 pm at Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz / at /
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L’Internationale presents two new publications: Soils & Collective Study in Times of Emergency
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L’Internationale presents two new publications:
Soils
internationaleonline.org/publications/soils
Soils was published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at the Van Abbemuseum.
Soil is a strong and resistant material. It is alive, it breathes, and it can recover. In this exhibition, soil is seen as both matter and metaphor. For some, soil is used as an artistic vehicle. For others, soil is a metaphor for the possibility of not only resistance but also the re-existence of under-standing about our relations with the Earth today.
This book is a reflection on the Soils exhibition in the Van Abbemuseum. The exhibition was five years in the planning and the book leads you through the various phases of its realisation. Alongside a rich selection of images, it includes texts by the three curators, artists and key interlocutors: Teresa Cos Rebollo, Zena Cumpston Charles Esche, Wapke Feenstra/Inez Dekker, Victoria Lynn, Struggles for Sovereignty and Rolando Vazquez.
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life had a small display presented in the Soils exhibition, curated by the Resurrection Committee (Adelina Luft, Ovidiu Țichindeleanu, Raluca Voinea), with contributions from Anonymous artist (Transylvania, 19th century), Adelina Ivan, Anang Saptoto, Eduard Constantin, Livia Pancu.
vanabbemuseum.nl/en/see-and-do/exhibitions-activities/soils
Collective Study in Times of Emergency
internationaleonline.org/publications/collective-study-in-times-of-emergency/
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News from the Station
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Dear friends, followers and distant readers,
It has been a tough year for us at the Station: drought, sorrow, building work advancing too slowly and older age settling in too quickly. Yet: the plants we saved from being completely scorched, the vegetables that our neighbours still managed to harvest, the new neighbours who did not let themselves discouraged and joined us on the lands nearby the Station, the friends who came to plant and the new visitors who came to listen, what we did manage to build, the allies and peers from distant places, the sunsets and the green grass emerging after the rain, the insects we didn’t have last year, the lizards called Sam, they were all so many reasons for encouragement, helping us to counter the agenda of doom guiding life in other places, close and afar.
December should have been a time of celebrating our collective survival for another year, instead, we find ourselves stranded in the only territory that still feels safe for the moment: our imaginary of hope, our horizon of trust in people’s desires for the common good rather than for the individual capitulation in front of the apocalypse. We (people at and around the Station, birds, artichokes, insects, lizards, stray dogs and more) think this territory can be as wide as we want to stretch it, as fertile as we struggle to irrigate it, as welcoming as we dare to make it.
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Book launch of the Czech translation of Working Girl
On Selling Art and Selling Sex / cz /
We cordially invite you to the launch of the Czech translation of Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex by New York-based writer, artist and sex worker Sophia Giovannitti. The book launch will take place on December 4, 2024, from 6pm at the Safe space bookstore. With its compelling combination of personal stories, critical (auto)theory, and excursions into the history of art and sex work, Working Girl can be considered a groundbreaking work of contemporary feminist art theory.
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Matter of Art Bookshop at the Vitamin Market
Winter market in Brno / cz /
The tranzit.cz publishing house will be part of the Vitamin Market on Sunday, December 1, from 10 a.m. in Brno. You will be able to buy books from our Matter of Art Online Bookshop in person with a 20% discount.
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A Lost Glove, or the Meaning of Solidarity.
Panel discussion with Roman Trubchaninov, Oksana Maslova, Tanya Malyarchuk, Georg Schöllhammer as part of BUCH WIEN 2024 / at /
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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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Fembook – A visual glossary for a post-patriarchal society
Collective photobook workshop / hu /
The second Photobook Workshop will focus on the production of a collective book that explores the subject of patriarchy.
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Studio Visit and Get Together with artist Andreas Fogarasi
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Office Ukraine Get Together on November 14, 2024 from 5 pm
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L’Internationale presents two new publications: Soils & Collective Study in Times of Emergency
Towards other possible artworlds
Lectures, discussion forums, screenings / sk /
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