Trespassing Modernities
exhibition / SALT Galata, Istanbul /
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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Changer d'image
Chto delat? and Ruti Sela. A performative event / mumok, Vienna /
Ten international film and video makers, artists or groups of artists are invited to reflect on the process of film making in the form of a live event.
This is the first in a series of performance events.
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Sweet Sixties: Avant-gardes in the shadows of the Cold War
lectures and conference / sweet 60s / mumok, Vienna /
MODERNITIES TRANSMOGRIFIED
In the 1960s, the landscapes and cities of protectorates and former colonies from india to the Maghreb, from the Soviet Republics to the new states in the Southern hemisphere were replete with the spirit and forms of modernity; forms that transmogrify and then dissolve into the thin air of the vernacular. The star-maps that are used to survey these artificial worlds often serve to navigate the boundaries between private and public domains.
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Sweet Sixties: Tales and Morals
exhibition / Galerija Nova, Zagreb /
The exhibition Sweet Sixties: Tales and Morals is a part of a long term project which explores the heritage of parallel modernisms of the 1960s in relation to their current geopolitical, economic and cultural implications and potentials, with emphasis on post-socialist, Middle Eastern and African context.
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Parallel Modernities: On some travelling agendas of late Modernism in the shadow of the Cold War 1960s
conference / sweet sixties / Ashkal Alwan, Beirut /
Location: Home Workspace - Ashkal Alwan, Beirut
Dates: January 28th — 30th, 2013
During the 1960s, the landscapes and cities of protectorates and former colonies from India to the Maghreb, from the Soviet Republics to the new states in the Southern hemisphere are replete with the spirit and forms of Modernity. Forms that transmogrify, and then dissolve into the thin air of the vernacular. The star-maps that are used to survey these artificial worlds often serve to navigate the boundaries between private and public domains.
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SOVIET MODERNISM 1955 – 1991. UNKNOWN STORIES
exhibition / sweet 60s / AZW Vienna /
The Architekturzentrum Wien writes architectural (hi)stories: ‘Soviet Modernism 1955 – 1991. Unknown Stories’ explores, for the first time comprehensively, the architecture of the non-Russian Soviet republics completed between the late 1950s and the end of the USSR in 1991. The research and exhibition project shifts the Russian-dominated perspective and focuses attention on the architecture of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Krygyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan The Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
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Parallel Pop – Orientalist Modernisms
conference / sweet sixties / Istanbul /
“Parallel Pop – Orientalist Modernisms” is the title of the seminar discussing these issues. This seminar is organized in the framework of the exhibition “A Kind of Electricity Appeared in Outer Space: Musical Turkey in the 1960s” as part of the project “Sweet Sixties.” It will try to analyze various aspects of the emergence of different new folklore and urban cultures since 1960 (like Arabesque, RABIZ, Novokomponovana muzika, Etnophonie, etc.) and their adaptation in the entertainment culture as well as their impact on social and political transformations.
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A kind of Electricity Appeared in Outer Space, Musical Turkey in the 1960’s
exhibition / sweet sixites / DEPO, Istanbul /
DEPO begins the new season with a documentary exhibition and a series of talks: “A kind of electricity appeared in outer space.”
Derya Bengi from the editorial teams of Roll, Express and Bir + Bir magazines is the curator of the exhibition aiming to understand the transformation Turkey went through in the 1960s by following in the footsteps of music.
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The need to historize
Sweet 60s / symposium / tranzitdisplay /
A series of talks that will focus on the issue of archives from a personal standpoint.
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tranzit.ro is launched in Romania
tranzit.org welcomes 5th tranzit /
tranzit.ro to become fully active in the beginning of 2012 in Bucharest, Iasi and Cluj
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tranzit guest at ArtEast
workshops /
tranzit.at together with ArtEast are organising incentive curatorial workshops with Vit Havranek, Dora Hegyi, Hedwig Saxenhuber and Georg Schöllhammer at the ArtEast School of Contemporary Art in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
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Sweet 60s: Movements and Spaces
conference / Sweet 60s /
The starting conference of the project "Sweet 60s"
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Court Experiment
exhibition / Visual Dispositif / Social Dispositif /
The exhibition summarizes the number of court sessions of three current trails against activists, which were attended by artists, journalists, and intellectuals who wanted to express their solidarity with the accused.
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