KAJET Journal

Kajet [ka-iɛt] is a journal that seeks to reconfigure the Eastern European imagination by bridging critical theory, visual arts, and daring writing.

KAJET, a journal of Eastern encounters. Given the current turbulent socio-political climate that has led to an upsurge of xenophobia, bigotry, and ultranationalism, the first printed issue of KAJET focuses on the role of communities, collectives, cooperatives, movements, minorities and subcultural groups in the context of the Eastern Bloc. Concentrating our scope of interest onto the past, present

and future of communities inside Eastern Europe, we are interested in works which critically analyse the developments before + after 1989 up to the present day and deal with cultural, social, and political phenomena including aspects of popular, marginal, parallel and counter culture around which communities build their voice. https://twitter.com/kajetjournal

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17/02/2026

Join us this Thursday in Utrecht at FOTODOK for an evening that promises, beyond food, a discussion on cooperation-comradeship and/against imperialism. Some unlikely music encounters, shifting centres and margins as proposed in the forthcoming issue of Errant Journal, as well as the role of visual arts and photography in the context of the current exhibition Lost Territories: Tracing Imperial Violence, a group exhibition by Sputnik Photos.

Thanks Errant Journal, Kat Kru, Irene De Craen

Through Kajet – a Journal of Eastern European encounters – Laura Naum and Petrică Mogoș offer a space for speculative reformulation of Eastern European identities, narratives and imaginaries, as an attempt towards what they call ‘a representation without purity’.

25/09/2025

📯 OPEN CALL 📯 For music scholars with sociological perspectives & sociologists with music focuses and everyone in the inbetween

Hosted by , and RPMS (Rotterdam Popular Music Studies) and scheduled to take place in April 2026, the conference seeks to critically position and explore (popular) music as a site of social meaning, power, and resistance: from production and labour to consumption, nightlife, activism, representation, and sonic practices bubbling up from the so-called “margins” - the east and beyond.

See the call on our website and submit your abstract by October 1.

15/09/2025

📯 CALL FOR PAPERS 📯

Hosted by Rotterdam Popular Music Studies (RPMS), Erasmus University Rotterdam and Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, and scheduled to take place in April 2026,

the conference seeks to critically position and explore (popular) music as a site of social meaning, power, and resistance: from production and labour to consumption, nightlife, activism, representation, and sonic practices bubbling up from the so-called margins, and more.

See the call below and submit your abstract by October 1.

Hosted by Erasmus University and scheduled to take place in April 2026, the conference seeks to critically position and explore (popular) music as a site of social meaning, power, and resistance: from production and labour to consumption, nightlife, activism, representation, and sonic practices bubb...

16/07/2025

We’re excited to host an interview conducted by Rokolectiv with SHAPE+ musician Adela Mede (SK/HU) and artist Nona Inescu (RO), reflecting on music, language, artistic process, and building community across borders. 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️

Their collaboration culminated in a haunting live performance at Bucharest’s National Dance Center, blending folklore, sound, costume, and installation.

Read the full conversation on our website. https://kajetjournal.com/2025/06/30/rokolectiv-sonic-mangroves-an-interview-from-the-rokolectiv-residency/

24/06/2025

Daca noi nu ajungem, măcar s-o faceți voi.

Human Scale
📍 București, 26-27 iunie
🎓 Universitatea de Arhitectură și Urbanism „Ion Mincu” (București)
🖊️ HUMAN SCALE: DESEN & ARHIVE Conferință și atelier aduce împreună artiști, arhitecți, istorici și cercetători din România și din străinătate, într-un dialog despre desenul de arhitectură - ca instrument de gândire, reprezentare, documentare și reflecție urbană.

În prima zi, vom discuta despre cm pot arhivele de desen să devină resurse active pentru cercetare și pentru practica de arhitectură de azi. Vineri, vom vedea cm anturajul din desenul de arhitectură ne ajută să înțelegem mai bine spațiul și să ne imaginăm viața în el.

🎙️ Cu: Alex Axinte, Ștefan Bâlici, Andreea Cel Mare, Ioana Chifu, Martha Cruz, Mirela Duculescu, Rosie Ellison-Balaam, Celia Ghyka, Cosmina Goagea, Florentina Murea-Matache, Vlad Nancă, Lucian Racovițan.

Program & detalii: https://humanscale2025.ro/human-scale-desen-arhive-conferinta-si-atelier/

LINK ÎNSCRIERI:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdCc4swDiCRBBkEjLfC4l1S8i7Lrn-knAkM77LBf16RQht0EQ/viewform?usp=send_form

30/11/2024

New times, old monsters: „nu!” fascismului și aliaților săi, oricare ar fi formele hibride și incoerente pe care le-ar lua.

În fața unui fascism mesianic—care rezistă oricărui prefix, nu e nici neo- și nici post-—solidaritatea și mobilizarea în masă sunt singurele căi înainte.

În fața unui fascism delirant, care se hrănește din anxietățile și fanteziile epocii noastre, nedezbinați îi putem demasca manipulările și destrăma psihozele.

În fața unui fascism conspiraționist-halucinant de tip New Age—rezistent la teoretizările de manual, care se adaptează fluxului istoriei și spațiilor pe care le ocupă—acțiunile directe și entuziasmul irezistibil vor fi decisive.

Am spus „nu!” fascismului în trecut, și putem să o mai facem o dată. Cum arată decupajele, ne-am mai întâlnit cu monștrii ăștia în alte forme, iar dacă ne-am oprit din a le mai sărbători înfrângerea, nu e târziu să căutăm motive pentru noi victorii și celebrări.

Înainte, lupta continuă!

Surse: 1. Revista Femeia, 1983. 2. Revista Muzeelor, 1979. 3. Munca, 1970. 4. A***e de Istorie, 1964. 5. Scînteia, 1945. 6. Lumea, 1971. 7. Cronica, 1989. 8. Scînteia, 1974. 9. România Literară, 1985. 10. Scînteia, 1979.

06/10/2024

Toward a Hopeful Ecology 🌸🌞
flowers x

6 octombrie
de la 17:00

05/10/2024

New .flowers space in Bucharest, Crișana 29, opening its doors Sunday 6 October, 17:00. 🥀

Toward a Hopeful Ecology

with artworks by (, .cirlig, ), .flowers, , .atoniac, , &

04/10/2024

Archival fragment from our research for the Toward a Hopeful Ecology—an exhibition by Nocturn and Kajet Journal 🌞

domesticated suns, submissive natural worlds, docile environments, tamed species. ☀️🌄🌅☀️

Sunday, 6 October 2024�Crișana 29, Bucharest

Cut-out from Almanah Turistic, 1978, page 159.

03/10/2024

Here’s a sneak peek from our upcoming exhibition TOWARD A HOPEFUL ECOLOGY, in collaboration with .flowers.

A glimpse of .antoniac‘s work, which, through poetic interventions, draws on family archives to explore the intimate relationship between human presence and natural landscapes: deliberate poses among trees, unintentional gestures rooted in intergenerational secrets and various forms of knowledge, and the quiet charms of self-forgetfulness. ⛲️🧘🎋

Sunday, 6 October 2024 Crișana 29, Bucharest

02/10/2024

Sneak peek from Toward a Hopeful Ecology—an exhibition by Nocturn and Kajet Journal

Here’s a glimpse of ’s work on deforestation and illegal logging in the Făgăraș Mountains. Andrei is part of , an artist collective exploring our relationship with nature, science, and the dynamics of natural resources in an overheating world. 🔥 🔥 🔥

6 October 2024
Crișana 29, Bucharest

27/09/2024

Sneak peek from our upcoming exhibition TOWARD A HOPEFUL ECOLOGY, in collaboration with .flowers.

Here’s a glimpse of Romanian documentary photographer .cirlig’s work, part of , an artist collective exploring our relationship with nature, science, and the dynamics of natural resources in an overheating world. 🔥 🔥 🔥

Bucharest, October 2024.

More info coming soon!

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