Power Lies in Togetherness. Statement by tranzit.org
tranzit.org stands by the cultural workers and citizens of Slovakia in their efforts to safeguard the independence of culture and democratic values! We believe in the power of solidarity and acting together for a more sustainable and just world! We hereby launch a call for international solidarity with Slovak Culture and cultural workers!
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Ioana Nemeș. All the Future Ahead
Solo exhibition at Kevin Space in Vienna, opening on May 29 as part of the Independent Space Index Festival 2024.
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Miriam Stoney and Tom Glencross: Otherwise Humane
A reading for Kyiv Biennial 2023 /
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Film & Talk as part of Kyiv Biennial 2023
Hito Steyerl in conversation with Oleksiy Radynski /
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KYIV BIENNIAL 2023
The fifth edition of Kyiv Biennial will be international and will take place in Kyiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Uzhhorod, Vienna, Warsaw and Berlin.
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Vasyl Cherepanyn: Zur Lage von Künstler:innen und Intellektuellen in der Ukraine
Pressekonferenz, 10. August 2022, 14 Uhr im Museumsquartier MQ /
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Office Ukraine. Shelter for Ukrainian Artists
Platform for the coordination of various initiatives by civil society as well as by institutions and acts as a liaison between the institutions in Austria and cultural workers from Ukraine.
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„Artists for Ukraine“
Museumsquartier Vienna /
In order to react to the current political developments in Ukraine, we will present artistic projections by cultural artists from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia starting tomorrow, Thursday, 3 March, daily from 18h. The art project curated by Hedwig Saxenhuber and Georg Schöllhammer is deliberately designed to be dynamic in order to be able to react to current developments.
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«У революции женское лицо. Случай Беларуси»
by Olga Shparaga /
We are pleased to present the Russian edition of Olga Shparaga's publication "Die Revolution hat ein weibliches Gesicht. Der Fall Belarus", published in cooperation with tranzit.at.
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The crossroads of oppression: Our roads to change
N.N. /
Solidarity Belarus updates, Part 3
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Die Revolution hat ein weibliches Gesicht. Der Fall Belarus
Lesung von Olga Shparaga (Minsk), DE / RU /
19. November 2021
19:00 Uhr
Diplomatische Akademie Wien
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“The body is an instrument of struggle and a source of hope”
By Antonina Stebur /
Solidarity Belarus updates, Part 2
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When Language Fails: In the Margins of a Diary
by Tania Arcimovich /
Solidarity Belarus updates, Part 1
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Solidarity Belarus
Solidarity Belarus updates /
To further the voice of artists and cultural workers from Belarus, contributions from colleagues and friends from Belarus are published on our website.
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PICK THE COLOR OF MY TEARS
live performance, conceived by Ioana Păun (MQ AiR) /
Pick the color of my tears is the first in a series of post-pandemic anti-romantic reflections and is the result of Ioana Păun’s residence at Q21, supported by tranzit.at, ERSTE Foundation and the Romanian Cultural Institute.
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Exhibition: Things we sense about each other
7.5. – 19.9.2021, Badischer Kunstverein /
Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Ira Afanasyeva, Vahram Aghasyan, Lala Aliyeva, Stefan Bertalan, Anna Dasović, Ines Doujak, Ilkin Huseynov, Anna Jermolaewa, Adela Jušić, Susanne Kriemann, Mikhail Kurilov, Elturan Mammadov, Ekaterina Muromtseva, Jura Shust, Harout Simonian, Lucine Talalyan, Aleksei Taruts, Iulia Toma, Miloš Trakilović, Zip Group
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Online Panel Discussion: The Ruins of Siberian Modernism
Soviet Modernism, the curatorial hypothesis of a siberian modernism, the role of paper architecture and questions of heritage protection /
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Solidarity Belarus Residency
Artist-in-Residence programme in Vienna by tranzit.at /
Special Project in 2020/2021: Artist-in-Residence programme at Q21/MuseumsQuartier Vienna
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Exhibition: The City of Tomorrow
Edition in Novosibirsk /
“The City of Tomorrow” considers the life and afterlife of the Soviet city and its fate after the Soviet project came to an end. The section, especially developed for the Novosibirsk edition of “The City of Tomorrow”, is dedicated to the architectural processes in Siberia throughout the XX century.
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RED THREAD / Issue 5
Alt-Truths and Insta-Realities: The Psychopolitics of Contemporary Right /
Red Thread, an online journal that is envisioned as a platform for exchange of knowledge and collaboration for academics and cultural operators from different geographies, has just launched its 5th issue titled “Alt-Truths and Insta-Realities: The Psychopolitics of Contemporary Right”. This issue includes an interview with Raja Shehadeh (conducted by Meltem Ahıska and Saygun Gökarıksel) and contributions by Jonas Staal, Geert Lovink, Hazal Özvarış, Nükhet Sirman and Feyza Akınerdem, Ahmet Ersoy, Jelena Vesić, Ana Teixeira Pinto and Vilém Flusser.
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Exhibition: The City of Tomorrow
Exhibition in Moscow, New Tretyakov Gallery /
“The City of Tomorrow” considers the life and afterlife of the Soviet city, an urban system that was planned and built as a model for an altogether new society. The exhibition presents the evolution of Soviet modernist architectural heritage from its genesis in the 1920s and its revival from the late 1950s through the collapse of the Soviet Union, as well and this patrimony’s patchwork survival in the former republics of the Soviet empire today.
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Publication: Whose Europe?
The “New Europe” and Controversy around the European Idea /
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Exhibition: Heinz Frank
Heinz Frank - Selbst flüssig, klammert sich an überflüssig /
Opening: Wednesday, October 2, 2019, 7 pm
We are happy to support the Heinz Frank solo exhibition at Badischer Kunstverein.
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The City of Tomorrow
Exhibition in Minsk, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Kiev, Tbilisi and Frankfurt /
“The City of Tomorrow” considers the life and afterlife of the Soviet city, an urban system that was planned and built as a model for an altogether new society. The exhibition presents the evolution of Soviet modernist architectural heritage from its genesis in the 1920s and its revival from the late 1950s through the collapse of the Soviet Union, as well and this patrimony’s patchwork survival in the former republics of the Soviet empire today.
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Whose Europe? The “New Europe” and Controversy around the European Idea
International Conference in Yerevan, Armenia, and Local Discussions and Interventions in Belarus, Georgia, Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova /
Who belongs to Europe? And when we say “Europe,” what exactly do we mean? Such questions are the subject of controversy in the aforementioned five countries of the Eastern Partnership and elsewhere in Eastern Europe. In cooperation with local stakeholders and in light of specific, nationally distinct cultures (and policies), the project Whose Europe? will identify and devise various forms of interaction at the local, national and European levels, specify their effects, and then publish the outcomes online, so making them accessible throughout Europe and beyond, and also put them up for local review in their original contexts.
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The Hole in my Soul and its Transparent Dress
Exhibition and Book Presentation in Belgium /
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Book Launch: Heinz Frank. The Self-Epigone
at Secession Vienna /
Date: Oktober 16 2018, 7:00 p.m.
Location: Secession Vienna
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In what language and using what methods?
Working Session in Sarajevo /
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RED THREAD / Issue 4
Dispossessions, Solidarities, De-integrations /
The project Red Thread is envisioned as an active network and platform for exchange of knowledge and collaboration of artists, curators, social scientists, theorists and cultural operators from the Balkans, the Middle East, the Caucasus, North Africa, and beyond.
The fourth issue of Red Thread edited by Erden Kosova, Zeyno Pekünlü, Vladimir Jerić Vlidi, Jelena Vesić and Banu Karaca concentrates on the concept of "dispossession".
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The Molyneux problem
Performance /
The Molyneux problem deals with the dreams of blind people. Katharina Schmitt, participated 2016 in the Artist-in-Residence programme in Vienna and she developed an interview series that conducted with people who gone blind. She is interested in the dreams of blind people: are they just haptic and auditory? Or do they contain pictorial structures? Based on these interviews, the text The Molyneux Problem arose. The protagonists of the play are a sighted man and a blind woman, who meet in a darkroom and explore their perception in a haptic, non-visual space.
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Multi-speed Europe. Future of Art and its Institutions Across Five Countries from the Austrian East Cost.
Public Discussion /
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Stopover - Ways of Temporary Exchange
Exhibition / frei_raum Q21 exhibition space / Vienna /
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(No) News from Belarus
Lecture by Olga Shparaga (Minsk) on May 29, 6:00 p.m. /
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Round table Ukraine
Economic relations across the contact line and the role of trade unions /
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The Empire Strikes Back?
A traveling academy will explore the post-Soviet cityscape (in Chisinău, Kiev, Minsk, Moscow, Tbilisi and Yerevan) /
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“The School of Kyiv”– Department Vienna
A Department of “The School of Kyiv” - Kyiv Biennial 2015 /
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Visiting MUSA: The School of Prosperity
A Class of the School of Kyiv, Kyiv Biennial in Vienna /
The School of Kyiv will establish The School of Prosperity at MUSA in Vienna. Along with presenting art projects by biennial participants such as Serhiy Bratkov, Alice Creischer, Anna Jermolaewa, Zhanna Kadyrova, Franz Kapfer, Dariia Kuzmych, Yuri Leidermann, Mykola Ridnyi, Mikhail Tolmachev, Titre Provisoire (Marcel Dickhage/ Cathleen Schuster) and Stas Volyazlovsky, there are plans for various events dealing with the present situation in Ukraine, Russia and Europe. The School of Kyiv is sponsored by SHIFT.
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Artist Talk - Art in a State of Crisis
Nikita Kadan in conversation with Erich Klein and Hedwig Saxenhuber. /
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“The School of Kyiv” - Kyiv Biennial 2015
Biennial / Kiev, September 8 - November 1, 2015 /
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Beyond Moscow
Critical Endeavour - Beyond Moscow Presentation & Lectures, NCCA, Moscow /
An initial meeting and first presentation of the project Beyond Moscow that will be followed by a research journey and a special Springerin issue in 2015.
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Conference: Local Modernities. National Architecture and International Style in the Soviet Empire post 1953
“Meetings on Architecture” / 14th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia /
The conference Local Modernities is dedicated to the legacy of postwar Soviet architecture: to its masters and idiosyncrasies, its original styles and erratic buildings. It aims to offer a glance at a still-existing void in the canon of the history of architecture of the last one hundred years.
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Ion Grigorescu. Diaries 1970–1975 & KwieKulik
Book launch at Viennafair /
Ion Grigorescu. Diaries 1970–1975 (Eds. Georg Schöllhammer and Andreiana Mihail) & Zofia Kulik & Przemyslaw Kwiek: KwieKulik (Eds. Lukasz Ronduda and Georg Schöllhammer).
Sat, 4 Oct 2014, 4 pm @ Viennafair, booth of .Kontakt. The Art Collection of Erste Group and ERSTE Foundation
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Sweet Sixties. Specters and Spirits of a Parallel Avant-garde
book launch and lecture, Zagreb /
Lecture Sweet Sixties. A Parallel Modernity by Georg Schöllhammer
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A Parallel Modernity. Soviet Architecture 1956-1991
exhibition, Centro Cultural São Paulo /
All started in the thaw period of the Khrushchev years after Stalin’s death in 1953. The new ideological call for modernization of the country led to an enormous extension of urban space. This continued into the final years of the USSR as economical crisis and dwindling material resources took their toll. The master architecture of Socialist Realism was rejected. A new urbanization was driven by an ideology of scientific and technological progress.
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Ion Grigorescu. Diaries 1970-1975
Bucharest book launch, tranzit.ro Bucureşti /
In his poetic language full of powerfully pictorial metaphors, Grigorescu reflects on his observations of the tension between the realistic effects of the image, the suppression of realism, and the hidden traces the gaze holds through the activities of the increasingly present unconscious of collective memory. Along with the drawings, paintings, photographs and sketches that accompany them, the diaries serve as an introduction that opens up the possibility of conceiving Ion Grigorescu’s art as a rare evocation of a singular way of thinking: a stance.
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The Capital of Desires
Pavilion of Republic of Armenia at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice /
Armenian history of the last two centuries was tightly interconnected with the project of (re)-building a nation. Architects and urban planners played a central role in this project. Their built and un-built visions have been driving the collective imagination and the associated aesthetic, social and political desires ever since.
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Sweet 60s Glossary Meetings and Lectures
Literature Museum Tbilisi /
Glossary Meetings originally started as a loose series of gatherings. Local and international experts as well as students develop an atlas of terms and paths by which late modernism and the neo-avant-garde reached the respective cultural contexts and the languages of various cities and regions. On this occasion, tranzit.at and Urban Reactor work with VERSATORIUM, a group of poetry translators linked to the Institute of Comparative Literature at the University of Vienna, local students, scholars and translators, as well as international experts, on a critical and experimental exploration of multi-layered structures and ethnically inhomogeneous landscapes – landscapes for translators on the outskirts of Europe.
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Ion Grigorescu. Diaries 1970-1975
New York book launch, 8 March 2014, Jadis Wine Bar /
Ion Grigorescu
Diaries 1970-1975
Edited by Georg Schöllhammer and Andreiana Mihail
Published by Sternberg Press, 2014
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Sweet Sixties. Specters and Spirits of a Parallel Avant-garde
book launch at Vienna Secession, 26 Feb. 2014, 7 pm /
The stories and spirits of a parallel avantgarde, whose silhouettes have yet to be found on the walls of the Western canon.
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Sweet Sixties book launch & SKYPE presentation
New Museum, NY, February 8, 4 pm /
Special guests: Lesley Ma, Yehuda Safran
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ENTOPTIC & TACIT by Boris Ondreicka
Skype talk with Eva Kotakova and screening by Boris Ondreicka, New Museum, NY /
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Friedrich Achleitner: Den Toten eine Blume. Die Denkmäler von Bogdan Bogdanović (Zsolnay Verlag)
book launch, Az W Podium, Vienna /
Bogdan Bogdanović (1922 to 2010) was the creator of the legendary 'concrete flower' in Jasenovac and the Piranesi award winning Memorial Park in Vukovar. His monuments, memorial sites and necropolises in all parts of former Yugoslavia symbolise the cultural diversity and the tragic course of the history of the Balkans. They share the creator's stance and are 'inclusive rather than exclusive, cohesive rather than divisive'.
Friedrich Achleitner writes the above in this book of words and images about the architect, urbanist, writer, polymath, former mayor of Belgrade and the author's friend while in exile in Vienna.
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Changer d'image II
Live events and film programs / mumok kino, Vienna /
Changer d’image / To Alter the Image is a series of performative events at mumok kino (mumok cinema) started in April and to be continued in September and October 2013. Ten international filmmakers, artists or artist groups have been invited to reflect on the process of filmmaking in the form of a live event. The focus is not on the end product of a moving image project but in showing aspects which lead up to it: the forms conceptualization, experimentation and research take. The intention is also to challenge the artists to reflect on the format of the commission, whether and how making a work by invitation influences the working process itself. The performative presentations of the films-in-progress may take shape as a talk, a talk based on film images, a talk presenting some actual shooting, a performance with the actors, a lecture by an invited specialist etc.
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Biennale di Venezia: an agenda
Discussions, Venice /
Visual art production at International Events and on the Alternative Scene: a possible dialogue? Cultural production in times of financial constraint. Production, Networking, alternative cultural policies. What is going on and what can be done to improve? The conditions of work in Venice during the Biennale
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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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tranzit.at now on Facebook & Twitter!
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tranzit.at is entering the world of social media
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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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