Reading group around Naeem Mohaiemen's Two Meetings and a Funeral
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Reading group around Naeem Mohaiemen' Two Meetings and a Funeral that premiered in 2017 at documenta 14 in Kassel, and which will be on view from May 17, 2018 to May 31, 2018 at tranzit. hu. See more about the exhibition here
In order to participate, please register by April 13, 2018 at applications@tranzitinfo.hu
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METASITU: A Walk In Ecumenopolis
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METASITU: A Walk In Ecumenopolis
A Performative Tour Of The Global City
Budapest, Ecumenopolis
Time: November 5, 2016, 6 pm to 8 pm
Meeting point: Mayakovsky 102, the open office of tranzit. hu, 1068 Budapest, Király utca 102.
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Anetta Mona Chişa: Politics of Friendship
Public presentation and workshop /
July 8, 2016; 6 pm:
public presentation by Anetta Mona Chişa
July 9, 2016; 12 am - 6 pm:
workshop with Anetta Mona Chişa
To participate in the workshop, please send your RSVP to applications@tranzitinfo.hu till the 8th of July!
Venue: FKSE - Studio Gallery, 1077 Budapest, Rottenbiller u. 35.
Related to tranzit.hu's exhibition tranzit.hu’s exhibition Our Heart Is a Foreign Country - Friendship as an alternative in a normal world.
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Cultural Diplomacy and Self-Organized Solidarity Movements
seminar /
The seminar will be led by Kristine Khouri and Rasha Salti (curators, Beirut), with contributions from Bojana Piškur (curator, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana), invited local researchers, and the participants.
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Curatorial Dictionary: Case Studies
Time: March 20-22, 2015
Venue: Mayakovsky 102, the open office of tranzit. hu, 1068 Budapest, Király utca 102.
To participate in the seminar, please send a motivation letter in English as well as an abstract of what the participant will present at the workshop. Please send application until March 12, 2014 at office@tranzitinfo.hu.
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Mediation / Communication / Cooperation as Curatorial / Artistic Practice
Free School for Art Theory and Practice with Julia Schäfer and Antje Schiffers /
Time: November 7-8, 2014
Venue: Auróra, 1084 Budapest, Auróra utca 11.
To participate in the seminar, please send a motivation letter in English until October 31, 2014 at office@tranzitinfo.hu.
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How Much Fascism?
Free School for Art Theory and Practice with WHW and Alerta /
Time: May 16, 2014,
Venue: Mayakovsky 102, the open office of tranzit. hu, 1068 Budapest, Király utca 102.
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Catalyst Award workshop with Stephan Dillemuth, Maxi Baumgartner, Mirja Reuter, and Florian Gass
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The next event of the tranzit.hu Free School for Art Theory and Practice is a 4-day-long performative workshop from January 30 to February 9, 2014. The aim of the workshop is to create a performance to be presented at the Catalyst Award ceremony on February 9, 2014.
The workshop is held by the German artists Stephan Dillemuth, Maxi Baumgartner, Mirja Reuter, and Florian Gass.
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We Were So Few And So Many Of Us Are Left
Free School connected to the exhibition of Anca Benera and Arnolfd Estefán /
Time: October 11, 2013, 2 pm to 6 pm
Venue: Mayakovsky 102, the open office of tranzit. hu, 1068 Budapest Király utca 102, 1st floor
At the seminar of the Free School for Art Theory and Practice connected to the exhibition of Anca Benera and Arnold Estefán, we address the Romanian and Hungarian political situation from a civic-activist perspective. Social researcher Ágnes Gagyi from Budapest, curator Raluca Voinea from Bucharest will introduce at the seminar the contexts of the ongoing new movements.
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Generative Curating: Towards a New Internationalism?
Free School for Art Theory and Practice with Kate Fowle /
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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Re-thinking Methods and Objects of Exhibitions - Tangenting Conventions of Biennials
Free School for Art Theory and Practice with nne Szefer Karlsen and Abdellah Karroum /
January 26-27, 2013
Venue: Mayakovsky 102, the open office of tranzit. hu, 1068 Budapest Király utca 102., 1st floor
Seminar with Anne Szefer Karlsen (Bergen, Norway) and Abdellah Karroum (Rabat, Morocco)
To participate in the seminar, please send a motivation letter in English until January 21, 2013 at office@tranzitinfo.hu.
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Call for participation - Where has Communism Gone?
Workshop and stage event with artist group Chto Delat? /
Artist group Chto Delat? from St. Petersburg has been invited by tranzit.hu to Budapest to realize a stage event, based on the participants’ own experiences, employing the Learning Play method of Bertolt Brecht.
A call for participation in the preparatory workshop in December, 2012 and the stage event in March, 2013.
The preparatory workshop of stage performance is December 14-16, 2012, with a Chto Delat? member, Dmitry Vilensky.
Rehearsal of the stage performance: the week of February 27, 2013 with Chto Delat? members Olga Egorova (Tsaplia) and Dmitry Vilensky.
Date of the stage event: March, 1 2013
To participate in the December workshop and the March stage performance, please send a motivation letter in English until November 30, 2012 at office@tranzitinfo.hu.
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The Unmaking of Art – Four Stories on Exhibitions, Museums and Art History proposed by: Jelena Vesić in collaboration with the Museum of American Art - Berlin
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The Unmaking of Art – Four Stories on Exhibitions, Museums and Art History
proposed by:
Jelena Vesić in collaboration with the Museum of American Art - Berlin
Lecturers: Walter Benjamin, Alfred Barr, Gertrude Stein and Jelena Vesić
May 11-13, 2012
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Daughter Products - Seminar with The Otolith Group
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The guests of the Free School for Art Theory and Practice in February are the London-based artists, The Otolith Group (Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun).
Public lecture: February 21, 2012
Seminar: February 25, 2012
Venue: KIRALY 102 - tranzit office (1067 Budapest, Király utca 102, first floor)
Please send your applications to the seminar until February 19, 2012 at office@tranzitinfo.hu
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An attempt to use alternative geography to explore narratives and space
Free School workshop with visual artists Sherif el Azma and Malak Helmy (Cairo) /
Visual artists Sherif el Azma and Malak Helmy hold a four-days workshop with the students of the Intermedia Department at the University of Fine Arts between November 23 and 26 2011.
The workshop is a practice oriented format of the Free School for Art Theory and Practice
The workshop will function as a laboratory-like environment to maintain a conceptualization/ discussion with the intention to form a strong grounding from which to create a time-based collective work (made by the group involved). Time-based media may involve sound, video, performance, reading/lecture (or a multi-media piece) that has a sequential structure that runs with time. A specific space/location within Budapest will be chosen through discussion with the group, so that focus on that specific geography can be both used as part of a narrative construction and/or a base to consider different representational strategies when looking at a space more phenomenologically. Actual production will take place gradually during the three days of the workshop.
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The Postcolonial 21st Century: Central Europe and Beyond - A seminar with David Chioni Moore and Vít Havránek
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The fall seminar of the Free School for Art Theory and Practice is based on the dialogue of literary theorist and university professor David Chioni Moore (Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA) and curator/ theorist Vít Havránek, director of tranzit. cz (Prague, Czech Republic).
Date of the seminar: October 14-15, 2011
Please send your applications to office@tranzitinfo.hu until October 10, 2011.
Preparatory reading seminar on October 6th, 2011 at 5 p.m., at Labor, Képíró utca 6.
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Curating and the Educational Turn - Seminar with Paul O’Neill and Mick Wilson
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The June Seminar of the Free School for Art Theory and Practice will be led by Paul O’Neill and Mick Wilson.
To take part in the seminar send an motivational letter in English to office@tranzitinfo.hu until June 1, 2011.
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Contract entre les Hommes et l´Ordinateur
Seminar with Judith Hopf /
Free School for Art Theory and Practice initiated by tranzit.hu
Seminar with Judith Hopf
December 13-14, 2010
Monday and Thuesday 10 am-5 pm seminar
Monday 6 pm public presentation
Location: Labor (1054 Budapest, Képíró u. 6.)
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Around the Context
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Around the Context:
Questions of positioning, interpretation, translation and re-evaluation
A seminar and a lecture by curator Judit Angel in the framework of the
Free School for Art Theory and Practice initiated by tranzit. hu
December 4, 2010, Berlin
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Free School for Art Theory and Practice - Lívia Páldi, Bea Hock
Hungarian film production /
Karlsruhe, Germany
Badischer Kunstverein
Friday, 18 June
10 am – 1 pm
Lívia Páldi: Other Voices, Other Rooms – Attempt(s) at Recon-struction. Fifty Years of the Balázs Béla Studio
3 – 6 pm
Beáta Hock: Coming into age/ncy: women represented on the Hungarian cinema screen
7 pm lecture by Lívia Páldi
8 pm lecture by Béata Hock
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We are not ducks on a pond but ships at sea - Independent art initiatives, Budapest 1989-2009 /
Karlsruhe, Germany
Badischer Kunstverein
Friday, 28 May 2010
IMPEX - Contemporary Art Provider
(Rita Kálmán/Katarina Šević)
10 am - 1 pm and 3 - 6 pm workshop
7 pm lecture
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The Free School for Art Theory and Practice is an educational and intermediary model, which has been run by tranzit. hu in Budapest since 2006 and has now been transferred to the Badischer Kunstverein. In workshops and lectures invited theorists and artists from Hungary address and discuss topics such as archives, collections and alternative platforms for art exhibitions.
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Practising Pragmatics
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A two-day seminar on curating contemporary arts in complex urban conditions, conducted by HamzaMolnar.
Date: November 28-29, 2009
Location: Labor (5th district, Budapest, Képíró str. 6.)
To take part in the seminar, please send a motivation letter to the office@tranzitinfo.hu address until November 20. Participation in the seminar is free.
A public lecture connected to the seminar will be held on 27th November.
Further information will be announced soon.
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19?9 - seminar with Société Réaliste
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The Fall seminar of Free School for Art Theory and Practice is connected to the Typopass. Critical design and conceptual typography exhibition
Date: October 14-15, 2009
Location: Dorottya Gallery (1051, Dorottya u. 8.)
Deadline for application: October 12
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Producing Publics - Making Worlds - seminar with Marion von Osten
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The April seminar will be led by Marion von Osten, artist, curator about the project exhibitions as artistic practice.
Date: April 4-5 2009
Deadline for application: March 31 2009
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Ute Meta Bauer´s seminar: Architectures of Discourse - exhibition as communicative space
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The January seminar of the Free School for Art Theory and Practice will be led by Ute Meta Bauer, curator, director of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, USA) Visual Arts Program.
Date of the seminar: January 9-11, 2009
Location: Labor (5th district, Budapest, Képíró str. 6.)
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The project as methodology - seminar with Antoni Muntadas
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The December seminar of the Free School for Art Theory and Practice will be led by artist Antoni Muntadas.
Date: 16-17 December, 2008
Deadline for application: 7 December, 2008
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Interventionist Art, Dark Matter, and the Rise of Enterprise Culture -seminar by Gregory Sholette
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The October seminar of the Free School will be led by Gregory Sholette, the teacher of Queens College, New York
Date: 10-11 October, 2008
Deadline for application: 3 October, 2008
Public lecture: October 9 2008, 6 p.m.
Location: Central European University, Gellner Room, Budapest V., Nádor u. 9.
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Seminar
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The May seminar of the Free School for Art Theory and Practice launched by tranzit.hu is led by Matei Bejenaru, artist, Simona Nastac, curator, Vlad Morariu and Catalin Gheorghe art critic.
In the seminar each lecturer will present a segment of the Romanian contemporary art scene in consecutive sessions.
Date: May 30 - June 1, 2008
Deadline for application: May 25
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Discussing Reflexivity in the Arts - seminar by Tirdad Zolghadr
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How does self-reflexivity and self-criticism relate to each other? And how does reflexivity relate to transparency, self-marketing, or institutional critique? What does handbra technique have to do with all these?
The April seminar of the Free School for Art Theory and Practice launched by tranzit.hu is led by Tirdad Zolghadr, Berlin-based writer and curator.
Date of the seminar: 18-20 April, 2008
Deadline for application: 14 April, 2008
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Traits of Servility? - seminar with Georg Schöllhammer
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How can „autonomous work” and personal dependency on the clients be reconciled? What possibilities art criticism has today? Does the generational gap exist?
The March seminar of the Free School for Art Theory and Practice is led by Georg Schöllhammer, Vienna-based critic, leader of the documenta 12 magazinproject, and project leader of tranzit.at.
Date of the seminar: March 7-9, 2008
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The art of the monologue - seminar by Chus Martínez and Dora García
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What role may an art institution play in our transforming cultural landscape? What possible strategies can link the space of contemporary art production and the social space?
What stand-up comedy and the art of the monologue can teach us, and how the notions of „delinquency” and „disobedience” are related to institutional practices?
Date of the seminar: December 12-14, 2007
Deadline for appliction: December 5,2007
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Chto delat? / What is to be done?
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Dmitry Vilensky, artist, David Riff, curator
Potentialities beyond Political Sadness. Case Chto Delat?/ What is to be done? in a time of reaction.
November 2-4, 2007
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Seminar with Lars Bang Larsen and Sören Andreasen
The Middleman part II: Dead Authors and Flexible Personalities /
Date: May 18-20, 2007
Place: KÉK - Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre - Budapest, VII. Nefelejcs u.26.
Application deadline with motivational letter to the office@tranzitinfo.hu address is May 13, 2007.
The topic of the seminar is mediation and the agency of the intermediary in the context of advanced global capitalism. We have previously been writing about the representation of the curator in contemporary discourse, in the light of the historian Fernand Braudel’s assertion that the capitalist market as we know it was instituted when middlemen started to control access to the marketplace. That, perhaps, is why the middleman throughout modernity has been viewed with suspicion (to the Marxist, for example, production has always been preferred to mediation).
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Seminar with artist Ulay and curator Maria Hlavajova
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Focus of the Free School for Art Theory and Practic in 2007: cooperation and dialogue
Why in Art?
Negotiating Social and Political Urgencies in the Field of Artistic Practice
20 April 2007: Closed Seminar with artist Ulay (Uwe Laysiepen) and Maria Hlavajova
21–22 April 2007: Closed Seminar with Maria Hlavajova
Place: Erick van Egeraat Associated Architects Office
Budapest, XIV. Dózsa György út 54/c 5th floor
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Maria Lind and Apolonija ušteršič: Contemporary Collaboration: Pleasures and Discontents
Free School for Art Theory and Practice /
18.1.-20.1.2007
FKSE- Assocation of Studio of Young Artists VII. Budapest, Rottenbiller u.35.
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Jens Hoffmann: Exhibitions have to change, what we except from them
Free School for Art Theory and Practice /
18.12.-19.12.2006
Collegium Budapest 1014 Budapest, Szentháromság u.2.
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Branislav Dimitrijevic
Free School for Art Theory and Practice /
23.11.-26.11.2006
Collegium Budapest 1014 Budapest, Szentháromság u.2.
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What, How and for Whom/WHW: Exhibiting Normalization
Free School for Art Theory and Practice /
19.10.-22.10.2006
Collegium Budapest 1014 Budapest, Szentháromság u.2.
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Barbara Steiner
Free School for Art Theory and Practice /
21.9.-24.9.2006
Collegium Budapest 1014 Budapest, Szentháromság u.2.
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The Free School for Art Theory and Practice
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For applications or further information please contact: office@tranzitinfo.hu
The Free School for Art Theory and Practice considers as the basis of its philosophy the concept that contemporary art and culture produce an excess of knowledge and experience, which can be recycled and used in broader social discourse, beyond their own primary context.
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