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The Last Archive An archive with newspapers published in the day that had been predicted to be the last day before th First artist is Péter Szabó .

The Last Archive was founded in December 2012 by Vlad Basalici, an artist who lives and works in Bucharest, Romania. This archive contains newspapers from all over the world that were published on December 21st 2012, the day that had been predicted to be the last day before the Apocalypse. Every year an artist is invited to create an installation in relation with the Last Archive. The opening of his exhibition will be on December 21st 2013. Next year, Monotremu will be our guest.

14/01/2022

When's the last time anything made any sense whatsoever? Maybe the world did end in 2012. Scientifically speaking, it makes the most sense.

13/10/2021

tranzit.ro/București and The Last Archive present: 2012 Alphabet Book With: Sergiu Nisioi, Mihaela Gheață, Ramona Gheorghe, Cătălina Gubandru, Raluca Popa, Adina Ochea, Bogdan Ghiu, Ștefania Mihalache, Irina Gheorghe, Eduard Gabia, Rucsandra Pop, Raluca Croitoru, Cristina Vasilescu, Sebastian Sifft, Nicoleta Moise, Ioana Stanca, Sillyconductor, Simona Dumitriu, Crina Marina Mureșanu, Anetta Mona Chișa, Simona Nastac, Raluca Ilie, Elena Vlădăreanu, Andrei Dósa, Diana Dogaru, Alex Axinte, Vlad Brăteanu, Vasile Leac, Ilinca Luca .The project will be launched in a video format online, on the 21st of December 2020, at 7 p.m. The Last Archive is an artistic project initiated by the visual artist Vlad Basalici and enacted together with curator Raluca Voinea as part of the programme of the contemporary art centre tranzit.ro/București.

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24/11/2020

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19/06/2020

http://www.indigenousaction.org/rethinking-the-apocalypse-an-indigenous-anti-futurist-manifesto/

Why can we imagine the ending of the world, yet not the ending of colonialism?

We live the future of a past that is not our own.
It is a history of utopian fantasies and apocalyptic idealization.
It is a pathogenic global social order of imagined futures, built upon genocide, enslavement, ecocide, and total ruination.

What conclusions are to be realized in a world constructed of bones and empty metaphors? A world of fetishized endings calculated amidst the collective fiction of virulent specters. From religious tomes to fictionalized scientific entertainment, each imagined timeline constructed so predictably; beginning, middle, and ultimately, The End.
Inevitably in this narrative there’s a protagonist fighting an Enemy Other (a generic appropriation of African/Haitian spirituality, a “zombie”?), and spoiler alert: it’s not you or me. So many are eagerly ready to be the lone survivors of the “zombie apocalypse.” But these are interchangeable metaphors, this zombie/Other, this apocalypse. These empty metaphors, this linearity, only exist within the language of nightmares, they are at once part of the apocalyptic imagination and impulse. This way of “living,” or “culture,” is one of domination that consumes all for it’s own benefit. It is an economic and political reordering to fit a reality resting on pillars of competition, ownership, and control in pursuit of profit and permanent exploitation. It professes “freedom” yet its foundation is set on lands stolen while its very structure is built by stolen lives.

It is this very “culture” that must always have an Enemy Other, to lay blame, to lay claim, to affront, enslave and murder.
A subhuman enemy that any and all forms of extreme violence are not only permitted but expected to be put upon. If it doesn’t have an immediate Other, it meticulously constructs one. This Other is not made from fear but its destruction is compelled by it. This Other is constituted from apocalyptic axioms and permanent misery. This Othering, this weitko disease, is perhaps best symptomatized in its simplest stratagem, in that of our silenced remakening:
They are dirty, They are unsuited for life, They are unable, They are incapable, They are disposable, They are non-believers, They are unworthy, They are made to benefit us, They hate our freedom, They are undocumented, They are q***r, They are black, They are Indigenous, They are less than, They are against us, until finally, They are no more.
In this constant mantra of violence reframed, it’s either You or it’s Them.
It is the Other who is sacrificed for an immortal and cancerous continuity. It is the Other who is poisoned, who is bombed, who is left quietly beneath the rubble.
This way of unbeing, which has infected all aspects of our lives, which is responsible for the annihilation of entire species, the toxification of oceans, air and earth, the clear-cutting and burning of whole forests, mass incarceration, the technological possibility of world ending warfare, and raising the temperatures on a global scale, this is the deadly politics of capitalism, it’s pandemic.

10/06/2019
Farewell - ETAOIN SHRDLU - 1978

A film created by Carl Schlesinger and David Loeb Weiss documenting the last day of hot metal typesetting at The New York Times. This film shows the entire newspaper production process from hot-metal typesetting to creating stereo moulds to high-speed press operation. At the end of the film, the new typesetting and photographic production process is shown in contrast to the old ways.

A film created by Carl Schlesinger and David Loeb Weiss documenting the last day of hot metal typesetting at The New York Times. This film shows the entire newspaper…

02/01/2019

by Vasile Leac from Maria Baroncea: The End of the World as We Know It: Field Notes, 22nd December 2018/ performers: Andreea David, Mădălina Dan, Paul Dunca, Monica Ivanov, Maria Mora

22/12/2018

Timeline Photos

15/02/2018

Cumpenele lui Kiki
Kiki Mihuță
Joi, 21 decembrie 2017
The Last Archive și tranzit.ro/ Bucureșt

Shadoof
Kiki Mihuță
Thursday, 21 December 2017
The Last Archive and tranzit.ro/ București

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26/08/2017

The Last Archive's cover photo

25/08/2017
Yearning for the end of the world

Yearning for the end of the world

The long read: As a child in Iran, Dina Nayeri belonged to a secret Christian church where the Rapture was welcomed as a rescue. Later, as a refugee in the US, she saw how apocalyptic prophecies masked a reactionary nihilism – which is why they are so tempting

03/02/2017
Prophesying about Hope in Times of Atmospheric Uncertainties

Prophesying about Hope in Times of Atmospheric Uncertainties

Actually it is in the stratosphere where we are mostly working. We are privileged enough to get a bird’s-eye view, one which most people don’t have access to, burdened as they are with watching their steps, but we are constantly threatened to either be hit by a plane or to fall down with a speed tha...

16/01/2017
Suffering from the Irrational

Suffering from the Irrational - Vilmos Koter

Vilmos Koter proposes the fourth exhibition that is responding to The Last Archive

In January 2017, the exhibition can be visited on the following dates:
- Saturday, 21 January, 5-7 pm;
- Sunday, 22 January, 3-5 pm;
- Saturday, 28 January, 5-7 pm;
- Sunday, 29 January, 3-5 pm.

On those dates we will screen also the four episodes of the experimental film Hi**er, ein Film aus Deutschland [Hi**er, a Film from Germany], realised by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg in 1977: Der Gral - Von der Weltesche bis zur Goethe-Eiche von Buchenwald / The Grail - From the Cosmic Ash-Tree to the Goethe Oak of Buchenwald, Ein deutscher Traum ... bis ans Ende der Welt / A German Dream ... Until the End of the World, Das Ende eines Wintermärchens und der Endsieg des Fortschritts / The End of a Winter's Tale and the Final Victory of Progress, Wir Kinder der Hölle erinnern uns an das Zeitalter des Grals / We Children of Hell Recall the Age of the Grail.

The Last Archive and tranzit.ro/ București invite you to the opening of the exhibition: Suffering from the Irrational Vilmos Koter Wednesday, 21 December 2016, 6 pm tranzit.ro/ București Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4

10/03/2016
HomeFest

HomeFest

De ce un om? De ce un cal?
În strada Baltagului, joi, 17 martie.
De/cu Giles Eldridge, Iulia Sima și Georgiana Dobre.

01/12/2015

It's coming soon!

05/02/2015

Last Archive's money from Monotremu's exhibition going out of circulation

19/12/2014

preparing Redemption Day with Monotremu at tranzit.ro. / Bucuresti

18/12/2014

The Last Archive and tranzit.ro/ Bucureşti present the exhibition:
REDEMPTION DAY
Monotremu

The Last Archive is a project in progress, initiated by Vlad Basalici.

tranzit.ro/ București, Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4

Opening: 21 December 2014, 5 pm

“It's no news that we live in a society of fear that benefits politicians, lobby-advocacy groups and large corporations. Like any other good, in order to sell, fear goes global, shape-shifting from terrorism to bird flus, from pandemics to apocalypse predicted by any culture or religion. Mass media are playing here the role of an emotional agent, like trumpets of revelations, provoking a ceaseless flux of anxiety interrupted only by advertising breaks. These inserts from a perfect world, where all the problems are solved by products, will remind us that while we consume we are safe and, by extension, our universe is saved.
One can say that the end of the world will never come or it always be postponed, as long as we go shopping, in a gesture of continuous redemption.” (Monotremu)

The exhibition is realized by Monotremu in response to the project The Last Archive of Vlad Basalici. The Last Archive consists of a collection of newspapers published on the 21st of December 2012 (the day of the Apocalypse announced by the Maya calendar and one of the most mediatized Apocalypses that never took place), as well as a series of events generated by this collection.

On the 21st of December 2013 there opened the first exhibition based on The Last Archive, The Old, the New and the End, by artist Péter Szabó.

Monotremu:
“We are an artist duo and family. Under the pseudonym of Monotremu we oppose two educational backgrounds - fine arts and sociology, or what sometimes it's seen as "anarchic subjectivism" vs. "totalitarian objectivism". Thus, our collaborative practice is a continuously negotiation based on feelings, intuition and facts that at the end result in works with social and political content. It's a response to the general apathy in the Romanian society traumatized by the neoliberal capitalism and the communist heritage, in the form of critical commentaries and sometimes mockery to the private and public actors that have unlimited powers to give shape to our everyday reality.”

Vlad Basalici is a visual artist and performer who lives and works in Bucharest. In his projects, he investigates how we perceive temporality. His works, as a solo artist or in collaboration, have been presented at brut Vienna, eXplore Festival Bucharest, Alternative Film/Video Festival Belgrade, Dansehallerne, Copenhagen, Alert Studio Bucharest, Paintbrush Factory Cluj-Napoca, Salonul de Proiecte Bucharest or the National Dance Centre Bucharest.
http://monotremu.blogspot.ro/
http://www.vladbasalici.com/thelastarchive.html

Thanks to: Judit Angel

Redemption Day is part of the programme “Fiction, Rhetoric and Facts”, organized by tranzit.ro in 2012-2015.

The exhibition can be visited between 14-31 January 2015, from Wednesday till Friday from 3-7 pm or by appointment to the email: [email protected].
http://ro.tranzit.org/

ERSTE Foundation is main partner of tranzit.ro.

23/02/2014

tranzit.ro

Exhibition organized by The Last Archive and tranzit.ro/ Bucuresti
21/12/2013–31/01/2014

20/12/2013

Apocalypse in progress . News from the crisis cell.

20/12/2013

The Last Archive would like to thank to:

Newspapers donors:
Alexandru Popescu, Ana Munteanu, Ana Olimpia, Cristian Iordache, Dan Perjovschi, Gabor Tverdota, Gabriel Basalici, Jenifer Hall, Julia Schulze , Laurențiu Raicu, Maria Basalici, Maria Stroe, Noah Teichner, Mihaela Kavdanska,
Mircea Coza and Stroma Ltd Digital Printing London.

Crowdfunding Donors:
Alexandra Pirici, Alina Lazăr, Andra Matzal, Andrei Dinu, Corina L. Apostol, Corina Naum, Cosmin Ilie, George Robescu, Florin Ursu,Jana Jevtovicm Mădalina Dan, Mihaela Dancs, Raluca Popa, Ștefania Ferchedău, Xandra Popescu and to all who want to remain anonymous.

We hope we didn't miss any name.

04/12/2013
tranzit.ro

tranzit.ro

The Last Archive news: Péter Szabó is the artist who was selected to realize the first installation starting from the apocalypse newspapers "The Last Archive". He will be on a short residency in Bucharest in the next period and will open the exhibition at tranzit.ro/ Bucuresti on the 21st of December 2013. In addition, Monotremu artists were invited to develop their proposal throughout 2014 and realize the exhibition on 21 Dec. 2014. More details soon.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Last-Archive/124363817719839

18/10/2013

Thank you to all who donate, who spread the word , who wrote about Last Archive. The project will continue . We will announce news soon.

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