Listening to the Earth Beyond Silence
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10.5.2025 - 9.8.2025
Kunsthalle Seinäjoki, Art and Culture Centre Kalevan Navetta, Nyykoolinkatu 25, Seinäjoki, Finland
An exhibition curated by The Resurrection Committee: Adelina Luft, Ovidiu Tichindeleanu, Raluca Voinea
With contributions from:
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life & Adelina Ivan, Darya Tsymbalyuk, Eduard Constantin, Jaana Kokko, V. Leac, Vlad Basalici
Collectivo Suumil Móokt’aan & Valiana Aguilar
Weaving Realities & Aldo Esparza Ramos, Yuchen Li
PARI (Panen Apa Hari Ini) & Anang Saptoto
Ingenious trackers overcame the limits of what can be seen by putting their ears to the ground in order to listen to the movement of horses or of a herd of animals coming from a distance. The Earth, large and all-welcoming, holds the weight of all our movements, across seas and continents. Can we learn though to listen to each other? Do we still have time – and do we give ourselves the time to listen beyond silence?
Four different collectives that are re-learning to listen to the Earth beyond silence are bringing here signs from the lands of China, Indonesia, Netherlands, Romania, and Yucatan, among others.
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Between Land, Conflict and Solidarity
A Conversation with Oto Hudec and Yana Kononova, moderated by Lýdia Pribišová / sk /
The event is part of the exhibition Liminal Ecologies: Thresholds of Transition and Entanglement
May 6, 6 pm, tranzitsk, Beskydská 12, Bratislava
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Let Them Eat Cake!
Please note that the episode is only available in Czech. / cz /
What happens when we combine food and art? In the first episode of the new series of the Raut podcast, we talk with artists Barbora Gábová and Františka Malasková about edible installations and design feasts or bread as a sustainable sculptural material. The episode is infused with a seven-course art historical menu prepared by curator Piotr Sikora.
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The Raut Podcast Has a New Season
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We have launched the second season of the intersectional podcast Raut which discusses contemporary art and culture from perspectives that might at first glance be unrelated to art or are on the margins of social discussion. The podcast is hosted by Ester Grohová and Nela Pietrová. Please note that the podcast is available only in Czech.
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CULTIVATORS OF LIFE
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Announcement of a new two-year program: CULTIVATORS OF LIFE, initiated by tranzit.ro/Bucharest Association in partnership with MODEM – Center for Modern Contemporary Art in Debrecen, co-financed by The Administration of the National Cultural Fund.
Cultivators of Life is a cultural program that continues and supports the activities started in 2021 at the Experimental Research Station for Research on Art and Life in Siliștea Snagovului, focused on conserving biodiversity, testing ecological prototypes, and rethinking the relationship between soils, materials and artistic production. The program proposes the study and formulation of a new lexicon and practices related to an emerging relationship between indigenous/ancestral knowledge, land cultivation and natural sciences. It will be carried out by organizing a series of artistic residencies at the Experimental Station and in the city of Debrecen in Hungary, public events in four gardens outside Bucharest, applied workshops, conferences with indigenous philosophers and local guests at the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, and a final group exhibition at MODEM – Center for Modern and Contemporary Art in Debrecen scheduled to open in October 2026.
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Marxism in the Sciences: Toward an International Critical Knowledge Network
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION / ro /
Marxism & Sciences Journal, in collaboration with tranzit.ro/cluj, organises its second symposium at the hypha_etc campsite in Câmpu Cetății (Romania) between 1–6 September, which attempts to foster a forum for discussing the chances for collectively building up an international network of projects in particular pertaining to Radical Science and Art activism, Socialist Heritage Studies and Critical Contemporary Research.
In today’s situation, when Marxist thought seems ‘undead’ and has retreated to the academic realm, all we offer, it seems, are attempts at dissemination of ideas and publication projects (book series, journals etc.). We want to discuss what can be done about it and how that ‘retreat’ is not fortuitous, since Marxist terminology seems indispensable especially in the realm of ‘knowledge production’ and ‘knowledge economy’. We would like to discuss the possibility of building up a platform of exchange, education and information that goes beyond a collection of papers, pamphlets, and books that describe the situation, but to actively connect local grassroots activism and global academic and artistic research. The split of the realms seems to be a major obstacle to us nowadays. This aim in mind we should start in the fields we already work in.
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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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Mimosa Pudica
Residency of artist Valentina Vetturi and a get-together on 26 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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On language, history, care
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Artist talk: Theo Prodromidis
Friday, 11th of April, 2025, 7 pm - 8.30 pm
@tranzitiasi,
Address: Str. Sf. Atanasie nr. 25, Iași
Theo Prodromidis will expand on his personal history of art practice through collaborative processes and working relationships as a starting point and take a self-reflective look through the challenges of aesthetic production of crisis (for and from Athens) but also through involvement in initiatives on solidarity education and social movements. Theo will invite us to follow threads of language, fragments of oral history and reflect upon places of care.
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Organizing in Culture between Burnout and Strike
Presentation & Discussion at tranzit sk / sk /
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Ifor Duncan and Stefanos Levidis: Weaponizing a River
Media lecture at tranzit sk / sk /
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CALL for APPLICATIONS 2026 now open until September 14, 2025
The residencies are aimed at artists and curators from Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovak Republic, and Slovenia working in the field of critical contemporary visual art to do research in their respective area.
Taking into consideration the urgencies raised by the ongoing war against Ukraine, we would like to express our solidarity and add a grant of a two-month stay for a participant from Ukraine.
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Upcoming: The fifth edition of Ecologies of Emancipation – Imminent horizon: fascism or imperialism?
A World in Common(s)
From Marxist Feminism to Solidarity Economy / ro /
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CALL for APPLICATIONS 2026 now open until September 14, 2025
Artist-in-Residence Programme at MuseumsQuartier in Vienna 2026 / ro /
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Call for Artist in Residence - MQ residency
Artist-in-Residence Programme at MuseumsQuartier in Vienna / hu /
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The Space of Opportunity
Community based educational program and common space / hu /
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2025 Editorial Plan
See what's coming out this year in the tranzit.cz publishing house! / cz /
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Newsletter
Latest information about the Biennale Matter of Art, new books from the tranzit publishing house, and other projects – straight into your mailbox. / cz /
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Online Bookshop
Order books published by tranzit.cz at knihy.matterof.art / cz /
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The Raut Podcast Has a New Season
Subscribe to Raut on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and SoundCloud / cz /
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Towards other possible artworlds
Lectures, discussion forums, screenings / sk /
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Biennale Matter of Art
The project comprises the international exhibition of contemporary art taking place once every two years as well as the platform’s long-term activities, which engage in critical reflection of the institutional aspects of the biennale format in the / cz /
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The Space of Opportunity is open
Community space under 63 Práter Street / hu /
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