tranzit.sk/

Artists: Cristina David (RO), Erdem Gündüz (TR), Barbara Holub (AT), Graziela Kunsch (BR), Brandon LaBelle (DE/US), Miklós Mécs in collaboration with Judit Fischer, Gábor Kristóf, András Zalavári (HU), Y8 (DE), School Club: Erik Janeček, Matej Myslovič, Peter Sit (SK)

18 November – 28 November 2014

Curated by:
Berit Fischer and Galeria HIT - Jaro Varga & Dorota Kenderová
in collaboration with tranzit.sk

At:
Galeria HIT
Hviezdoslavovo námestie 18
Bratislava 811 03
Slovakia
http://www.galeriahit.com/

&

tranzit.sk
Beskydská 12
Bratislava 811 05
Slovakia
http://sk.tranzit.org/

Revolution Without Movement is an experimental and process based discursive project that brings together artistic proposals in contemporary art that aspire dialogue and direct action for positive change in society. It aims to critically rethink established forms of artistic engagement, surveying subtle and non-manipulated forms of resistance to hegemonic powers and looks at artistic approaches that challenge the neoliberal commodification of art and the notions of ‘reputation based economy’ with its emphasis on symbolic capital.

Iranian sociologist Asef Bayat has coined the term ‘social non-movement’ as a sociological phenomenon of un-articulated and dispersed ways of resistance of ordinary people, who generate subtle spaces within the socio-political constraints in their everyday life, to assert the rights they might be denied by oppression or neglect from and to enhance their chances and personal lives. Although the actors in social non-movements might not actively be linked with one another, they can have the capacity to evolve into larger political and social mobilization by establishing personal alternative norms in society.

In the neoliberal capitalist western world and the global north—in which the rationale of the market shapes society more than the needs of its citizens and public concerns—social non-movements also do exist, of course for different reasons and in other forms. Resistance against the hegemonic and paternalistic structures of industry e.g. via forms of self-organization or individual strategies of self-empowerment to withdraw from the consensus and industry driven markets and mass media manipulation could be considered social non-movements.

The project Revolution Without Movement brings together artistic practices that manifest and refer to the subtle forms of social non-movements and potential ‘communities of sentiment’ (Appadurai), communities that begin to imagine and feel things together.

Throughout the course of the ten days, we invite you to join us to engage, discuss, practice, and produce new knowledge and new experiences together.

PROGRAMME:

The program will be in English, with Slovak translation for small groups.

Tuesday 18th November
7PM • Galeria HIT
Galeria HIT School Social Club
(Open collective dinner)

Erik Janeček, Matej Myslovič, Peter Sit, students
of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in
Bratislava founded a School Social Club, which
traces, re-enacts and reactivates forgotten histories
of the former social club that was convened
in the past in the space of Galeria HIT.

Hit & Eat
An open invitation to a collective dinner, cooked
from discarded food that was gathered from
neighbouring restaurants of Galeria HIT. Free
of charge.

Wednesday 19th November
7PM • tranzit.sk
Welcoming words by Judit Angel
(tranzit.sk), Jaro Varga & Dorota Kenderová
(Galeria HIT).
Short introduction to the concept of Revolution
Without Movement by Berit Fischer.
Graziela Kunsch: The Mutirao Project
(Dialogue based talk)

A dialogue based process with the intention that
the audience should constitute themselves as a
self-conscious and concrete community and rethink
the role of individuals and individual artists
in collective-political-historical processes.

Thursday 20th November
5.30PM • tranzit.sk
Open Yoga Practice
(Open invitation to everyone, no previous experience
necessary; based on donation)

7PM • tranzit.sk
Graziela Kunsch: The Mutirao Project
(Open invitation to participate in a dialogue
based talk)

Friday 21st November
5.30PM • tranzit.sk
Open Yoga Practice
(Open invitation to everyone, no previous experience
necessary; based on donation)

7PM • tranzit.sk
Cristina David: artist+artist
(Presentation, open invitation to workshop to
visual and media artists)
artist+artist invites artists to join Cristina David
for a three day encounter, to develop a functional
collaboration model between artists. The encounter
is not meant to support each other in our
individual projects, but rather to create a “nursery”
of joint ideas and put them into practice.

from 8.30PM
Brandon Labelle: Monument
(to the Wild Imagination)
(Guerilla projections throughout the city)
A meditation on the tensions between creative
autonomy and arrest, production and proliferation,
by applying and exploring strategies of
appropriation, stillness, hesitation, mutuality as
means for locating a critical position to the instrumentalization
of creative expression and the
pressures placed upon the contemporary creative
body.