Documentation of my solo exhibition at FKSE, Budapest 

curated by Useless Galeri 

hapening in october 2021 

You can read a bit more about a show in an interview between me and Zsolt Miklósvölgyi published on Kajet Journal : 

https://kajetjournal.com/2022/02/09/zsolt-miklosvolgyi-splittertown-stach-szumski/

pictures by Dikatlskepmuhely

Kajet Journal #3 - Cover (Photo by Nikita Dembinski) On Struggle

Editors: Petrica Mogos & Laura Naum Editorial Designer: Gabriel Barbu

Printing and Binding: KOPA, Kaunas

www.kajetjournal.com www.gabrielbarbu.com

Easterndaze x Berlin 2019 presents KAJET Journal panel talk & D'EST videoteka

On Saturday the accompanying talk curated by Kajet Journal is held at the exhibition and space of ZÖNOTÉKA in Neukölln, and takes up central topics on the theme “Subcultural Peripheries: Remapping the East”. Event takes place on Saturday from 4pm, Facebook event here. 

The cultural spaces of Europe have continued to be divided even long after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Despite the benefits of globalisation, increased mobility, and widespread access to technology and foreign cultures, Eastern Europe is still seen as lagging behind and non-progressive.

Within this circuit of transactions, there is a sharp contrast between what happens intellectually, artistically, and culturally in Eastern Europe and how these ideas are disseminated within a Western sphere of action. Regardless of this, Eastern Europe has blossoming local scenes that manage to translate their marginal condition into artistic practices, and this topography of pain into powerful pockets of creativity.

This talk seeks to explore what happens beyond the core and the normative centre. By tackling the existing master narratives, can an emphasis placed on marginality and periphery give way to the possibility to create a community of struggle across borders? How can subcultural forms of artistic expression create a framework of transnational (Eastern European) solidarity? With panelists:

Alexander Pehlemann - journalist, curator, organizer. Since 1993 he is editor and publisher of Zonic Magazine, an holds a special interest in Eastern European subcultures. He is the DJ-selector for Al-Haca Sound System, and writes for regional and national music magazines. He also produces the Zonic Radio Show. He's curated numerous exhibitions and compilations focused on Eastern European underground culture. 

Artjom Astrov (musician, multimedia artist and founder of the Serious Serious collective). 

Ira Merzlichin (member of the Paradaiz collective, an organization whose main goals are the exploration, mediation and support of inter-cultural exchanges as engines of preserving cultural diversity and creating tolerance between what is considered minority and majority, peripheral and central.

Anita Jóri - a research associate at Berlin University of the Arts (Universität der Künste Berlin). Her research and publications focus on electronic (dance) music cultures and their diversity and gender issues. She’s just finished editing two upcoming volumes at Springer Publishing: Music & Empowerment and The “New“ Age of Electronic Dance Music and Club Cultures. Since 2018 Anita is also a chairperson of the German Association for Music Business and Music Culture Research (GMM). She’s part of the curatorial team of CTM Festival's discourse program

At the same venue a selection of related video art curated by the D’EST will be on view. D’EST: A Multi-Curatorial Online Platform for Video Art from the Former ‘East’ and ‘West’ is a project initiated by Ulrike Gerhardt with DISTRICT Berlin.  D'EST is a Berlin- based online audiovisual platform that reflects the post-socialist transformation along post- geographic, horizontal, and feminist focus topics.  

The event is on donation base - all proceeds will be donated to GSBTB - Open Music School *

Dominik Wojciechowski in the second issue of Kajet Journal, project: Svijet

KAJET Journal n01

Frustrated by the “purely anecdotal” understanding of Eastern Europe, Kajet Journal is a beautifully bookish title with new perspectives from the region. Published in Bucharest, Romania, it wants to challenge the stereotypes and misrepresentations attributed to Eastern Europe by mainstream media.

Kajet Journal is very happy to announce the opening of “Obsession Never Sleeps”, an exhibition that seeks to examine the obsessive dimension of memory. 

The exhibition brings together new works by three Bucharest-based artists, Andreea Badea, Nikita Dembinski, and Robert Antoniac.

Exhibition opening: 15 October 2021, 19:00—01:00

Location: La Firul Ierbii, Splaiul Unirii 160, Bucharest

Exhibition dates: 15 October—15 November 2021

Happy to be featured in the lovely Kajet Journal

Kajet Journal #3 - P1

On Struggle

A small article and presentation of my book, Holding Pattern on Kajet journal. 

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Kajet Journal

PPM#5 @the workplace

Str. Mihai Eminescu nr. 2a, etaj 430.10.2020 -

1.11.2020

Jasmina Al-Qaisi Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu Dr. Big Mimi Ciora & Sergiu Sas Naomi Fitzsimmons Cristian Grecu Alex Horghidan Andra Mavropol Nicoleta Mureș Kajet Journal Tudor Pop Xenia Roth Andrei Stancu Cristian Tușinean Smaranda Ursuleanu

Workshop on ‘Working Fictions’ with Cristian Grecu 31.10.2020

PPM (pages-per-minute) has become our annual copy art show, inspired by campus copy shops and focused on exchanges between young artists. But as the city is rapidly gentrifying, moving from a youth student city into a young urban professionals city, we are using this opportunity to reflect on the changes.

The promise of the Romanian Silicon Valley story drives many new developments, and brings new work models and corporate cultures, from horizontal co-working environments to managerial hierarchies, work-from-home shifts or office-space ‘architecture.’ With them, work dynamics are also changing. With PPM#5 we are looking at these new ‘working conditions’, the relationships developed at work, the ‘friendship and family’ fictions corporate cultures entertain, how they affect life and living models. Notably, corporate culture nowadays aims to trigger emotions, meaning it runs on affect, on how employees are ‘made to feel’ and the cohesion of the company. This, of course, becomes problematic since employees’ behaviour gets to be treated as a sort of commodity, where niceties are expected and creative input blasted.  

PPM#5 stages an office ‘copy room’ - a space for meeting peers, gossip and critique. We’ve invited artists, writers and workers that, through different artistic positions, take on the issue of office environments and together build a sort of a playful, but critical pamphlet.

The event is accompanied by a practical workshop where the copy machine will become the main tool. The workshop is addressed to artists, writers and workers who want to put together their own pamphlet of ideas and create new narratives for what these ‘work environments’ could be.

PPM#5 is part of Aici Acolo's 2020 program, Fictions of Tech & Life - Aici Acolo exhibitions explore fiction as an instrument of reframing the every day, our mediation through technology, encounters, and the narratives that shape our contemporary society. The extended curatorial project brings together exhibitions, micro-residences, and connected conversational - events to better grasp and ask how do we connect with technology from the warmth of our bodies outward.

Project co-financed by the National Cultural Fund Administration. The project does not necessarily represent the position of the National Cultural Fund Administration. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or how the project results can be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the beneficiary of the funding.

Aici Acolo is a curatorial collective by a group of friends, artists, and curators, that organize Pop Up exhibitions in unused or abandoned spaces in Cluj-Napoca.Parteneri: Centrul Cultural Clujean, Centrul Cultural German Cluj-Napoca, Fabrica de Pensule, Universitatea de Artă şi Design din Cluj-Napoca / UAD, Spam-Index.com, MATCA artspace. Design credit: Flavius Augustin

Documentation of my solo exhibition at FKSE, Budapest

curated by Useless Galeri

hapening in october 2021

You can read a bit more about a show in an interview between me and Zsolt Miklósvölgyi published on Kajet Journal :

https://kajetjournal.com/2022/02/09/zsolt-miklosvolgyi-splittertown-stach-szumski/

Kajet Journal #3 - P1 On Struggle

Editors: Petrica Mogos & Laura Naum Editorial Designer: Gabriel Barbu

Printing and Binding: KOPA, Kaunas

www.kajetjournal.com www.gabrielbarbu.com

Kajet Journal

Obsession Never Sleeps- Book

Texts by Petre Mogoș, Laura Naum, Philipp Hindahl.

Artists: Robert Antoniac, Andreea Badea, Nikita Dembinski

Editors: Petre Mogoș & Laura Naum (Kajet Journal)

Design by Regular Practice

Printing & binding by Kopa, Vilnius

Put together by Kajet Journal

Published by Dispozitiv Books, Popa Tatu 20, Bucharest