Transit Grp. is a collective of early-career artists, founded in 2023 by Denisa Zajacova, Jonas Balsevičius, Karolina Žalėnaitė, Luīza Kohtanen and Matilda Clarke, who aim to create a peer-to-peer network and build an environment for art-making with no limitations on medium or format. Inspired by encounters within transitional urban spaces, they designed a workshop during which participants are asked to produce a piece of work on their journey to an agreed location at a given time. Although the destination is set, each participant’s journey will be different. This prompts them to look and notice. The push to make quickly is meant to help contributors think creatively and make do with what is available. Experimenting, taking risks and embracing failure are the foundational principles of the workshop. Once at the destination, participants are encouraged to have an open discussion, which is meant to help them contextualise their experience and the works they may have produced along the way. The workshop may also culminate in an exhibition, offering a space to share the outcomes of these journeys with a wider audience.
Workshop Prompt
Make, collect or find something in transit to. Bring this something to your meeting point where you will be encouraged to share your experience and outcomes with others in a form of a creative discussion.
Choose when and where to start your journey and your preferred mode of transportation.
You can make a detour, get lost deliberately, or stop for a break – just let yourself be drawn in by the terrain and the encounters you find along the way.
You can treat this as a part of an ongoing endeavour. What if the beginning of this journey was a point in the past?
All things are welcome: a found object, a drawing, a photo, a sound, a performance, a poem, a piece of writing, a work in progress, an idea, or nothing at all.
Workshop may culminate in a same day exhibition.
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Transit is one’s daily commute.
Transit is going from point A to point B.
Transit is going to work.
Transit is going to see a friend.
Transit is just passing by.
Transit is movement.
Transit is a walk.
Transit is a run.
Transit is a dance.
Transit is a ride.
Transit is a journey.
Transit is about the journey and not the destination.
Transit is a transition.
Transit is forgetting where one is going.
Transit is one’s luggage lost in transit, be it emotional or physical.
Transit is something lost, as well as something found.
Transit is the book one accidentally leaves on a train.
Transit is the book that one finds on a bench that happens to fit perfectly in the
pocket of their favorite jacket.
Transit is the people that come in and out of one’s life.
Transit is looking and seeing, hearing and listening.
Transit is noticing the flowers that grow from in between the sidewalk tiles.
Transit is hearing the sound of the wind, the leaves and the song of the birds.
Transit is noticing the overlooked.
Transit is being in the middle of it all.
Transit is being lost.
Transit is not knowing what to do.
Transit is entropy.
Transit is trying to navigate the situations that one may find themselves in.
Transit is finding the way.
Transit is the subconscious.
Transit is cautiously choosing to be in the subconscious.
Transit is daydreaming.
Transit is nightdreaming.
Transit is dreaming.
Transit is whatever comes between what most refer to as birth and death.
Transit is a testimony to the experience of being human and what comes with it.
Transit is art of any shape or form.
Transit is life.
Transit is the art of life.
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