A collaborative learning session & community event
From 3 pm to 8 pm
Rajka, Hungary
& tranzit sk, Beskydská 12, Bratislava
How can ecological thinking inspire the art world to become more sustainable, more diverse, a balanced and interconnected ecosystem like a real nurturing ground? What do the principles of permaculture, composting, and degrowth hold for us who work in culture? How can these help us to put our relationships on a different basis, prioritize community practices, and create space and time for reflection and experimentation instead of compulsive production? And in general, how can we all learn from nature to live better lives?
This collaborative learning session and community event will partly take place in the village of Rajka, in the orchard founded by Martin Piaček in 2017 as a space for creative encounters between people, nature, and art. There we will gain closer insight into the tree ecosystem, agrarian landscape, and associated knowledges and practices, while sharing stories and food and reflecting together on how these experiences and principles can bring a positive change to our own contexts.
The second part of the event will take place in tranzit spaces, Beskydská 12, Bratislava
🚌 FREE BUS
Bratislava – Rajka - Bratislava
MEETING POINT:
Pionierska street. (next to the garages) 48° 9' 36.8892" N 17° 6' 57.888" E
PROGRAM:
2.15 pm Boarding
2.30 pm Departure
3 pm Arrival in Rajka
4 pm Departure from Rajka to Bratislava
4.30 pm Arrival in Bratislava, to tranzit at Beskydska 12 street
/tee & coffee break
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5 pm
Workshop wit Nada Rosa Schroer:
COLLECTIVE CONSIDERATIONS
ON PERMACUCTURES IN ART INSTITUTIONS
/ in tranzit sk, Beskydská 12
6:30 pm
FUNKY TASTE OF SLOWNESS
- sharing of autumn dishes by David Koronczi,
with a focus on fermented products of the current orchard season
/ in tranzit sk, Beskydská 12
Looking forward to seeing you 🍃🌱🌿🍀
PROGRAM
SHORT MODELS FOR A LONG TIME
Commented walk with Martin Piaček and Raluca Voinea
3-4 pm (regarding to weather)
How long does it take to grow a tree? How long does it take for a tree to grow a human, or a bird, or an insect? When is a tree at home and how does a tree grow a home, for humans, for birds, for insects? When does a tree bloom or make fruit, and what are the flowers and fruits of a tree good for? A walk in an orchard or in a garden, as wild as it is left to become, is an outward journey of patience and careful observation, of reading into stories of travel and settlement, of names and intricate relations built over time, of adaptation, survival, joy.
We invite you to explore the Rajka Orchard in a collective walk and to discover stories about the actual trees in the Orchard, as well as their relatives a bit more to the South, in the Experimental Station for Research. The walk will be guided by Martin Piaček, the creator of Rajka Orchard, and Raluca Voinea, co-founder of the Station. You are invited to add your own stories, about trees such as the almond, apricot, fig, willow, hazelnut, hawthorn, pomegranate, sour cherry, dogwood, and others.
Martin Piaček is an artist and academic, and head of Studio vvv at the Academy of Arts and Design in Bratislava. Trained as a sculptor, he works with the themes of history, heroes, changing national identities, and contradictions in historical narratives. Through these profound themes, he confronts the collective memory with his personal one. Another distinct line of his work is linked to his long-standing interest in gardening and landscaping.
Raluca Voinea is a curator and art critic based in Bucharest. Since 2012, she has been co-director of the tranzit.ro Association. From 2012 to 2019 she managed the tranzit.ro space in Bucharest, which included an art gallery, a communitarian permaculture garden, and an Orangery all developed organically and in response to both the local context and international frameworks. Starting in 2021, the ideas and approach that configured this space have been continued within The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life on Art and Life, a collective project carried out by tranzit.ro together with a group of cultural workers in the village of Silistea Snagovului, 40 km north of Bucharest.
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COLECTIVE REFLECTIONS ON PERMACULTURE IN ART INSTITUTIONS
Workshop with Nada Rosa Schroer
5 pm / tranzit sk Bratislava
The term "permaculture" is made up of the words "permanent" and "(agri)culture" and brings together different types of knowledge and practices. Permaculture combines organic farming methods with principles of social design. Aiming at wholeness, regeneration, horizontality, and reciprocity, these processes are based on cycles of observation, experimentation, and adaptation grounded in core ethical values and a set of practical principles.
What potential do these principles and ethics have for work in art institutions on a material-metaphorical level? Which aspects can be transferred and translated into context-specific institutional, curatorial, and artistic practices?
The workshop provides a space to critically reflect together on the possibilities of applying permaculture to art institutions by means of embodied exercises and group discussions.
Nada Rosa Schroer is a curator and researcher based in Cologne. She engages in curatorial and artistic practices that address the eco-social consequences of the colonial Capitalocene. In her PhD-research she focuses on post-industrial water bodies in landscapes of extraction and examining hydropedagogical methodologies to relate differently to water.
Since 2020 she has regularly collaborated with CCA Temporary Gallery, where she co-curated the programs Curating Transformation (2023), Towards Permacultural Institutions (2022) and Instituting in Circles: Ecological Approaches in the Arts (2022).
FUNKY TASTES OF SLOWNESS
Food sharing session with Dávid Koronczi focused on seasonal fermented products related to orchards
6:30 pm / tranzit sk, Bratislava
I would like to bring the flavors of fermentation to our conversation in the orchard. Vinegars, kvass, pálinka, fermented jams, sour flavorings, and fragrant breads have been part of orchards and gardens forever. Yeast, lactobacilli, and other microbes are the essence of the creation of these fantastic components of our archaic diets. They are witnesses of time, and not only in this way, historically and symbolically. Their creation often requires slowness and stretched temporality. It is in many cases the most important flavoring of any good food.
Dávid Koronczi is a graphic designer, visual artist, and teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, where he assists Martin Piaček in the management of Atelier vvv at the Department of Intermedia. In his work, he deals with the intersection of the practices of food production and eating with artistic strategies, i.e., the creation of objects, audiovisual works, and storytelling. In 2021, he initiated the performative-gastro-speculative project BRUCHOVRAVY, while participating in exhibitions at home and abroad, and in July 2024 he participated at the art symposium GASTROFAZA, focusing on food in contemporary art, organized by MeetFactory. Currently he runs a small family homestead with his partner Martina Szabóová in Ratka, in the south of Slovakia, near the city of Lučenec.
The event is part of the Towards Other Possible Artworlds program curated by Judit Angel and Eliška Mazalanová.
ERSTE Foundation is the main partner of tranzit.
This project was supported from public funding provided bythe Slovak Arts Council (in scholarship form).
Media partners:
Artalk.info, Flash Art CZ & SK, Kapitál, GoOut.net