17 Nov 2014

Revolution Without Movement, tranzit.sk & Galeria HIT, Bratislava, 18.11. – 28.11.2014

Revolution Without Movement
Ten days of discursive projects, performative lectures and yoga practice /

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 HIT - Jaro Varga & Dorota Kenderová  in collaboration with tranzit.sk

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

&

tranzit.sk
Beskydská 12
Bratislava 811 05
Slovakia
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.

Saturday 22nd NovemberMiklós Mécs in collaboration with
Judit Fischer, Gábor Kristóf & András
Zalavári: Spi-Fi (Spiritual Fiction)

(Daily situation-based guerrilla interventions in public space at non specified times)
The interventions in the public space critically refer to the notion of consumption and to the assumption that only through consumption can economical progress be maintained.

3—5PM • tranzit.sk
Cristina David: artist+artist
(Open workshop)

5.30PM • tranzit.sk
Open Yoga Practice
(Open invitation to everyone, no previous experience necessary; based on donation)
from 8PM

Brandon Labelle: Monument
(to the Wild Imagination)
(Guerilla projections throughout the city)

Sunday 23rd November
Miklós Mécs in collaboration with Judit Fischer, Gábor Kristóf & András Zalavári: Spi-Fi (Spiritual Fiction)
(Daily situation-based guerrilla interventions in public space at non specified times)

3—5PM • tranzit.sk
Cristina David: artist+artist
(Open workshop)

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

7PM • tranzit.sk
Erdem Gündüz: Standing Man (Talk)

Standing Man exemplifies the tradition of passive resistance during the protests against the government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at Taksim Square in Istanbul in 2013. Gündüz' motionless protest unleashed a tsunami of activity on Twitter and became a symbol for equality and freedom.

Monday 24th November
5.30PM • tranzit.sk
Open Yoga Practice
(Open invitation to everyone, no previous experience necessary; based on donation)

7PM • tranzit.sk
Miklós Mécs in collaboration with
Judit Fischer, Gábor Kristóf & András Zalavári: Spi-Fi (Spiritual Fiction)
(Talk)

Conclusion of three days of situation-based guerrilla interventions.

Tuesday 25th November
5.30PM • tranzit.sk
Open Yoga Practice
(Open invitation to everyone, no previous experience necessary; based on donation)

7PM • tranzit.sk
Y8: Incomplete…
(Talk)
Y8 questions whether the classical strategy of displacement or alienation is still able to expand its capacity for self-interrogation. Their work launches the philosophy and practice of yoga into the context of art, by transferring it to the architecture and socially coded situation of exhibition spaces.

Wednesday 26th November
5.30PM • tranzit.sk
Open Yoga Practice
(Open invitation to everyone, no previous experience necessary; based on donation)

7.30PM • Galeria HIT
Galeria HIT School Social Club: Option
(Open dialogue and exhibition)

Erik Janeček, Matej Myslovič, Peter Sit, students of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava founded a School Social Club. Option invites for an open dialogue between the students and the visitors about the history of the School Social Club; accompanied by an exhibition of the student's research of the revolutionary history of the space of Galeria HIT.

Thursday 27th November
5.30PM • tranzit.sk
Open Yoga Practice
(Open invitation to everyone, no previous experience
necessary; based on donation)

7PM • tranzit.sk
Barbara Holub: Congress of Missing Things
(Talk)

Holub will introduce an alternative methodology and artistic strategy linked to her idea of 'direct urbanism' by looking at her Congress of the Missing Things, an inclusive congress in public space that took place in the summer in Baltimore (US). Participants produced its contents, and the format was based on non-hierarchical dialogue and polylogue.

Friday 28th November
7—10PM • Galeria HIT
Galeria HIT School Social Club: Free Entrance
Closing Party of the School Social Club and of
Revolution Without Movement with beer and
music

The project was supported by The Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic, tranzit.sk, Goethe Institut Bratislava, ERSTE Foundation, Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Yoga is provided by Denisa Uhliarová (yogabydenisa.com) and Lenka Žabková & Kubo Steinhauser (fredyyoga.webnode.sk).

ERSTE Foundation is main partner of tranzit.