Report_Issue 1/2009 - Jubiläum/ 20 Jahre Mauerfall

THE TRANZIT PROGRAM
AUTUMN / WINTER 2009
tranzit.hu
Exhibition: Typopass – Critical Design and conceptual
Typography
organized by tranzit.hu and Dorottya Gallery
(Műcsarnok)
Curators: Judit Angel, Dóra Hegyi, Zsuzsa László
Participants: Andreas Fogarasi, Lajos Kassák, László
Moholy-Nagy, Société Réaliste, Boris Ondreička,
Katarina Šević, Mladen Stilinović, others and artists’
publications
How can we establish a critical design that is in opposition
to the mainstream consumer culture and with
ecological, geopolitical, and social consciousness does
not simply serve client interest but aspires to shape
actively visual culture, and society? Such an utopist
approach to design first appeared at the beginning
of the 20th century in modernist movements, which
questioned the ornamental function of design proposing
a different concept of it that would serve social and
political purposes. However, the new and revolutionary
visual code introduced by modernism in time became a
sheer stylistic feature of elegance and professionalism.
In the 1960–70s the concept of anti-design emerged
as an expression of critical attitude and underground
spirit deliberately applying and appropriating amateur
and rudimentary techniques. Today, design solutions
created originally out of political and social engagement
became freely exchangeable stylistic elements
and marketing devices. Critical approach can typically
be observed in the political decoding and reflected application
of various visual languages.
Typography as a visual language that can be interpreted
both in the field of fine art and design is in the focus
of the project. The exhibition presents historical and
contemporary works, projects, and publications from
the frontier design and art grouped along three topics:
1 Typographic Utopia, 2 Anti-design, 3 Subversive
design and typography typology.
The exhibition and program series Typopass – critical
design and conceptual typography is part of the
international project Art Always Has Its Consequences
supported by the Culture 2007 Program of the European
Union
Duration: 14 October–27 November 2009
Sites: Budapest–Dorottya Gallery (Dorottya u. 8.),
Labor (Képíró u 6.) 14 October–15 November 2009;
Platán Gallery (Polish Institute, Andrássy út 32.)
22 October–27 November 2009
Connected to the exhibition:
14–15 October 2009
Free School for Art Theory and Practice
with Société Réaliste, Márton Szentpéteri and others
27–29 November 2009
Free School for Art Theory and Practice
with terminal 2: Edit Molnár (Berlin-Budapest) and
Aleya Hamza (Cairo)
tranzit.blog.hu ongoing
Visual culture online magazine in Hungarian
Fall: launch of the English version
Publication
Interviews with lecturers of the Free School for Art
Theory and Practice 2006–2007
tranzit.cz
PUBLISHING PROGRAMME
Stano Filko catalogue
A catalogue of an important Slovak artist.
Spring 2010
publisher tranzit.cz and JRP-Ringier
Posters by post
The poster medium, combined with the artist’s option
of using one side as his or her catalogue, sent by post
to a chosen group of galleries, curators, artists and
other interested persons.
Autumn issue: Zbyněk Baladrán (cz)
TRANZITDISPLAY GALLERY
Exhibition: A “Ladies Almanack*”
Curators: Hedwig Saxenhuber (springerin, Vienna, at)
Artists: Dorit Margreiter Ines Doujak Katrina Daschner
In cooperation with tranzit.at and springerin Magazine
(at)
A “Ladies Almanack*” builds the parenthesis for the
Prague exhibition of the three female artists. The title
is borrowed from the famous book “Ladies Almanack”
by Djuna Barnes about a predominant lesbian circle
in Paris of the 1920s, full of obscure language, inside
jokes and ambiguity
The exhibited works by Dorit Margreiter, Ines Doujak
and Katrina Daschner deal partly with lesbianism in
different forms, but it is not the main theme of their
works. Dorit Margreiter is interested in architecture,
film (business) and representation, Katrina Daschner
rewrote and transferred the famous novel “Lolita” by
Vladimir Nabokov to a lesbian setting, and Ines Doujak
dissolved the matrix of heteronormativity as the “normal”
social order in her works. Each of these artistic
positions deals with a specific theme, and while their
art differs greatly, they all share a structural approach,
which critically questions the orders determining social
aspects of our lives, our culture and politics, focussing
on gender aspects.
Duration: 18 September–11 November 2009
tranzitdisplay
Dittrichova 9/337, Prague 2, 12000, CZ
———
Exhibition: Who is student?
Curators: Václav Magid, Vasil Artamonov (cz)
A project of Václav Magid, Czech young artist and
curator; regarding student’s identity and its history.
The Exhibition deals with the anniversary of the Velvet
Revolution in November 1989. In cooperation with The
Student Council.
Duration: 08 Dezember 2009–31 January 2010
Lectures and discussions: November–December 2009
A long-term series of lectures, discussions and round
tables are going on in 2009. Participants: theoreticians,
curators, artists and other guests.
tranzitdisplay
Dittrichova 9/337, Prague 2, 12000, CZ
———
Exhibition: Sung Hwan Kim Exhibition
Solo show of Sung Hwan Kim (b. 1975, Seoul). In his
practice, the artist integrates video and performance
art, taking on the role of director, editor, performer,
composer, narrator and poet. By approaching his own
work from all production angles, his pieces are infused
with his own highly subjective vision.
Duration: 23 February 2010–09 May 2010
tranzitdisplay
Dittrichova 9/337, Prague 2, 12000, CZ
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Workshop: Radio d-cz
One-week radio workshop in tranzitdisplay, including
a series of discussions and lectures on broadcasting
internet projects.
The broadcasting stations in Germany and Czech Republic
invite specialists from both countries to curate
five radio art works for five independent “radio-spaces”,
in tranzitdisplay. These artworks will then be broadcast
by public radio stations in both countries.
In cooperation with Gaby Hartel (d), Frank Kaspar (d),
Michal Rataj (cz) and Miloš Vojtěchovský (cz).
Support Kulturstiftung des Bundes (d).
Duration: 16–22 November 2009
tranzitdisplay
Dittrichova 9/337, Prague 2, 12000, CZ
tranzit.sk
Exhibition: LOIS & FRANZISKA WEINBERGER
at tranzit workshops and around
Duration: 01 October–21 November 2009
at tranzit workshops and around
tranzit workshops
Studená 12, Bratislava–Zlaté Piesky, Slovak Republic
open from wednesday to saturday, 3 to 6 pm
tranzit.at
PROJECT UKRAINE
Art + Knowledge_2, NOVEMBER 2009
Revolution?, FEBRUARY 2010
Cooperation between Visual Culture Research Center
National University of Kiev-Mohyla Academy
(NaUKMA) and tranzit.at
Located in the former space of the Soros Contemporary
Art Centre in Kyiv at the National University of Kyiv-
Mohyla Academy, the Visual Culture Research Center is
an initiative in an academic frame. Involving the faculty
and students of the cultural studies department in
collaboration with international researchers, curators,
critics and artists in the form of working seminars,
conferences, residences and exhibitions, the Center
is intended as an innovative platform to integrate
current artistic practice and academic disciplines. The
aim of the Center is to develop an environment that
promotes the analysis of manifestations in post-Soviet
cultural, political, and economic situations evident and
particular to Ukraine. With a focus on issues relevant to
interpreting the concrete historical circumstance, the
primary objective of the Centre is to generate a format
for the production of discourse.
The program includes:
– Series of lectures by researchers, artists, critics
and curators
www
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.org
Here you will find further information
on projects by tranzit in Austria,
Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech
Republic.
– Visual Laboratory
– A regular presentation and discussion of the
academic/field research
– Video screenings and eventually art exhibitions
introducing international positions related to the
themes approached
– Conferences / Seminars
SWEET SIXTIES
Ongoing research project, next public events at the
Ashkalawan Festival Beirut, APRIL 2010
Sweet Sixties is a long term experimental curatorial,
scientific and educational research project that
investigates hidden territories of the revolutionary
period of the 1960s regarded from contemporary
artistic and theoretical perspectives. The curatorial
and artistic focus lies on “post ideological societies” (in
post-Soviet, post socialistic, Eastern European, Middle
Eastern, West and Central Asian as well as North
African countries and in a second phase in China and
Latin America) and is making a comparative analysis
and contextualization of the historical developments
in arts, culture and society of the 1960s and 70s and
their subsequent effects on contemporary socio-political
and cultural situations.
Project researchers are: Nancy Adajania (University
of Delhi), India; Ali Akay (art critic, Mimar Sinan
University) Turkey; Janane al-Ani (curator and writer,
Baghdad) Irak; Ruben Arevshatyan (artist, independent
curator, Armenian Open University) Armenia; Olga
Bryukhovetska (Visual Culture Research Center,
Kyiv) Ukraine; Keti Chukrov (Lomonossov University,
Moscow) Russia; Daho Djerbal (University of Algiers),
Algeria; Galit Eliat (Israeli Center for Media Art, Tel
Aviv) Israel; Tom Holert (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna)
Germany/Austria; Ulan Japarov (art historian and
architect, Bishkek), Kirgistan; Vaisf Kortun (Platform
Garanti Contemporary Art Center) Istanbul, Turkey; Iliko
Zautashvili (artist, editor of LOOP magazine, Tbilissi)
Georgia; Beral Madra (Istanbul) Turkey; Toni Mariani
(writer, Rome) Italy; Lukasz Ronduda (Center for
Contemporary Art, Warsaw) Poland; Nermin Saybasili
(cultural theorist, Mimar Sinan University) Turkey;
Georg Schöllhammer (art critic, curator, editor) Austria;
Yulija Sorokina (Curator, Almaty), Kazakhstan
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