3rd Space Sending Signal

«Privet! Eto govorit 3rd Space 

here heaters make murmur

actually very cold day for 18 May 

but inside warm yellow light and clean floor 

it gives hope 

at least something was done 

after long winter hibernation

even for such small things you need to find a way

Where have all the tools disappeared?

How to take water from the toilet?

Why is this roof falling down?

it gives unhope. 

Secret garden behind the window

there is bugs from a pine tree rained on the Stalkers

and if extrapolate, Stalkers which appear every spring 

are like bugs (or tarakany) for the paznik's of Museum

but it all was at daytime and now it's dark outside 

calmly-strange be alone here in night

in this deserted building

like kosmonaut who's sending signal from Space»

The concept of the third space is related to the sociocultural term to designate communal space, as distinct from the home (first space) or job (second space).

3rd Space Studio was activated for work, communication and permanent exhibition. Symbiosis of kombinat, church, cosmo station and café.

The principles of multifunctionality and transformability as ecology of space use are professed here. It means experimenting with different functions and their various combinations in one environment. For example Exposition, Reading corner, Publishing house, Post office, Ugolok Electronika or Disc-jockey station.

Located in Chișinău, Muzeul Zemstvei or just Zemstva.

Zemstva is not so small and often not so functional semi-museum in Strada Sfânt A. Șciusev 103, Chișinău. In decaying condition. With roof leaks and no heating. And with ambivalent and sometimes hostile conditions and attitude towards artists and culture workers. Has some kind of manifesto of area: Best museum (or other public space) is closed museum.

Such place with liquid status and liquid potential.

It claims work for activation or degeneration.

If <<work>> is well done, it leads to the fact that here people and elements meet and communicate with each other.

Such activity returns this place to the functions for which it was built.

It has a secret garden, where Stalkers have a rests, probably

Work Memo

talk a bit, but work more

drink coffee but work fast

help each other

share good tricks and methods

work and than talk

improve by work

experiment and not be mean

don't be afraid of <<oshibka>> (en.mistake)

don't think about money as result

print & publish

clean studio after using it

clean toilet

Outcomes of studio work are positioned on hanging <<On Wall Archive>> (Archiv Na Niti).

This archive allows to display all publications and material at once and store it.

DEFINITION OF 3rd SPACE: a neutral ground visitors are not tied down to the area financially, politically, legally, or otherwise and are ‒ free to come and go as they please. A leveler (a leveling place) 3rd SPACE put no importance on an individual’s status in society. Someone’s economic or social status does not matter in 3rd SPACE, allowing for a sense of commonality among its occupants. There are no prerequisites or requirements that would prevent acceptance or participation in the 3rd SPACE. It harbors a number of regulars that help to give the space its tone, and help to set the mood and characteristics of the area. Regulars are also attract newcomers and are there to help someone new to the space feel welcome and accommodated. A low profile 3rd SPACE are characteristically wholesome. The inside of 3rd SPACE is without ‒ extravagance or grandiosity, and has a homely feel. 3rd SPACE are never snobby or pretentious and it accepting of all types of individuals, from several different paths of life.

Working with the concept of studio spaces as a temporary service or permanent model, KOLXOZ came up with theses that contribute to sustainability and effectiveness. Principals were born as a result of a research on the topic «Potentials of Limits» and were relevant for peripheral areas of Eurasia. These principles can be organically developed and adapted for other regions

• Multifunctionality and transformability as ecology of space use. Involves experimenting with expansion of the dogmatical functions of the place.
• Recycling of technologies, methodologies, ideologies. It means exploring outdated and forgotten tools, practices, ideas and reimagining their purpose for a new context or for needs relevant to current tasks of collective.
• Autonomy of self‒production. From research, creation and replication to distribution, theoretical formulation and presentation. Turning every step of this process into partisan fight for autonomy of perceptions. This prevents dependence on the mechanistic segregation tendencies of modern society and from addiction on automaticity of consumerism.
• Collectivity as a format of work, as a work of art, as a search for alternatives, as a pragmatical response to challenges that cannot be dealt by a single person.