Romanian Pavilion at the 55th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia / ro /

An Immaterial Retrospective of the Venice Biennale
Alexandra Pirici and Manuel Pelmuş
Giardini della Biennale, Venezia
1 June – 24 November 2013
Professional Preview: 29-31 May, 2013
Pavilion Opening: 29 May 2013 at 4:15 pm
Project produced by tranzit.ro/ Bucuresti
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On the occasion of the publication of the Czech translation of the first work in the trilogy Homo Sacer by the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, the fourth meeting this year of the A2 Criticism Club will take place in the tranzitdisplay gallery, Prague.
The debate will focus on understanding the term “homo sacer” within the framework of Agamben’s thinking. It will inevitably examine his powerful thesis that an exceptional state of affairs is the paradigm of contemporary political regimes. It will ask what forms current manifestations of the declared exceptional state of affairs take in reality.
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New and old sounds: rec/mix/make and speak them all / ro /

New and old sounds: rec/mix/make and speak them all
Noise and electronic music, an anthology
Guy Marc Hinant / Sub Rosa (BE), lecture & listening
Saturday May 25, 7.30 p.m. (duration : 60 min)
at tranzit.ro/ Iaşi
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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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The advent of autobiographical comics in the 1970s and 80s saw greater attention being paid to reflections on the wide variety of personal shared and corrected personal memories.
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Curator and writer Fionn Meade will talk about his curatorial practice
and introduce three concepts arising from research done at the close
of the 19th century by cultural thinkers involved in developing new
applications within quickly expanding fields, specifically
anthropologist Franz Boas’ “secondary rationalization,” art historian
Aby Warburg’s “pathosformel,” and sociologist Gabriel Tarde’s
“quantification.” By thinking through these concepts together, Meade
will consider their shared traits as partial, even symptomatic
methods, and how their insights question presumed trajectories of
modernity, and might yet be relevant. Meade will consider these
concepts in relation to recent exhibitions Time Again, Nachleben, and
Plaisance.
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An event conceived by Anamaria Pravicencu / ro /

New and old sounds: rec/mix/make and speak them all with Sillyconductor
Saturday May18, 7 p.m.
at tranzit.ro/ Iași
Starting this month, tranzit.ro/ Iaşi invites you for a series of events conceived and coordinated by Anamaria Pravicencu. With this new series, tranzit.ro/ Iaşi is trying to connect to a variety of manifestations of contemporary culture.
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Book launch and presentation by Eszter Steierhoffer / ro /

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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Free School for Art Theory and Practice with Kate Fowle / hu /

Time: May 16-19, 2013
Venue: Mayakovsky 102, the open office of tranzit. hu, 1068 Budapest Király utca 102., 1st floor
Seminar with Kate Fowle (Chief Curator for the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, and Director at Large at Independent Curators International, New York City, USA).
To participate in the seminar, please send a motivation letter in English until April 15, 2013 at office@tranzitinfo.hu.
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In a TV show from the 1970s, a well-known linguist called the dialect I was speaking then “the ugliest Norwegian.” Since then I have moved to Oslo, graduated and become a literary figure of sorts. I no longer use the dialect (and sociolect) I used to speak when I was a child, although it does not necessarily mean I have learnt to speak and write in “correct Norwegian.” Speech and poetry are tools I use because they are not “mine”: they are always someone else's.
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We perceive the city as a constantly transforming, dynamic complex of events, relationships and roles. Just as the city changes every hour of the day, so the process of creating meanings of cities within the urban infrastructure never stops.
The monuments and sculptural interventions in the public space that characterise the garish suburban high-rise building projects of the normalisation period have become decomposing symbols of the past during the decades of freedom, condemned to physical and spiritual erosion.
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exhibition / SALT Galata, Istanbul / at /

Almost 25 years after the corrosion of the Soviet Union, still little is known, beyond the former Empire’s borders, about the social fabric that wove it together.
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exhibition in tranzitdisplay / cz /
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Romanian Pavilion at the 55th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia / ro /
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