More than 20 Years of tranzit.org: Lecture-performance by Norbert Kuki and launch of the tranzit 20+ book
Join us for an evening marking more than twenty years of tranzit.org: Norbert Kuki’s lecture-performance VAKER/SPEAK and the launch of tranzit 20+ with editors Flóra Gadó and Borbála Soós and tranzit sk director Judit Angel.
- When: 16 October 2026 at 6 pm
- Where: tranzit sk, Beskydská 12, Bratislava
- Registration is not required for attending the lecture-performance and the book presentation.
More than 20 Years of tranzit.org
This event is an accompanying programme of Weaving Space. FSP International Solidarity Festival, Bratislava edition
More than twenty years of tranzit is an occasion to celebrate a long-term practice of cooperation, exchange and solidarity across Central and Eastern Europe. What began through the development of independent art initiatives has grown into the tranzit.org network, connecting tranzit at (Austria), tranzit cz (Czech Republic), tranzit hu (Hungary), tranzit ro in Iași, Bucharest and Cluj (Romania), and tranzit sk (Slovakia).
For this anniversary, we invite you to an evening that brings together an artistic engagement with its archive and the launch of the tranzit 20+ book. Rather than looking back at the past as a closed history, the programme opens questions about how archives, artistic practices, publications and networks can create spaces for dialogue, resistance and new forms of solidarity.
Norbert Kuki: VAKER/SPEAK
Lecture-performance
VAKER/SPEAK is a work in progress developed by Roma artist Norbert Kuki through his research into projects related to Roma culture in the tranzit.sk archive. Returning to the archive, Kuki revisits the ideas of NADIKHUNO MUZEUMOS bringing its narratives into new relations and considering what they reveal, leave unresolved, or make possible when read through lived experience.
Drawing on his notion of the “Roma Experience” - the diverse and constantly evolving lived reality of people of Roma descent - Kuki works with storytelling and micro-histories, bringing everyday experiences, humour, relationships and social realities into the conversation.
The performative lecture reflects on Roma identity and community, the meaning of the nation within Romani culture and whether the nation includes Roma, as well as the place of resistance, disobedience, and self-interpretation in the archive.
Can a book be understood as a spatial practice?
Launch of the tranzit 20+ book
The tranzit 20+ book reflects on more than two decades of the tranzit.org network, bringing together different voices, experiences and forms of practice. It looks at the experiments, partnerships, methods and forms of mutual support that have sustained independent art practices through changing political contexts, while also considering the network’s present and future.
For the book launch in Bratislava, editors Flóra Gadó and Borbála Soós, together with tranzit sk director Judit Angel, will discuss the publication from the perspective of how a book can become a complex spatial and intersectional feminist practice—not only through its non-linear narrative and multivocality, but also through the kinds of spaces it creates. These can be sites of resistance, resilience, vulnerability and transformation that help move us beyond rigid and binary thinking.
Connecting to the themes of the festival taking place at tranzit sk, the launch will also include a performative reading of excerpts addressing marginalised communities, more-than-human narratives and community building through networks. Invited contributors to the book (Jana Kapelová, Oto Hudec, Ivana Rumanová, Paula Malinowská) and members of the audience will have the chance to join the reading, alongside representatives of tranzit.org and ERSTE Foundation.
More information on the tranzit sk website.
© photo Tibor Nagy
