Merve Salgar is a musician from Istanbul who plays the traditional Ottoman music instrument, the tanbur.
Sonotopie/Autoskopie is a protean musical portrait of an imaginary megalopolis, for cello, double bass and electricity.
This felt like a long year, and looking back we realize why: «Chromatic Wednesdays» has realized 23 wonderful episodes full of emotion, creativity and diversity. As it’s time for the 24th and final episode of season 3, we’d like to come together one last time this year for «Chromatic Wednesdays». Join us this time for modular, audiovisual and DJ performances by Gina Lo, bianyachichi & sailormenx, B3NJO and special guest at Arkaoda Bar.
The poem «A Desperate Vitality» by Pier Paolo Pasolini from 1964 is written in cutting rhythms that move up and down, full of allusions and quotations that change between absurdity and sadness. In their performance at «Chromatic Wednesdays», Dafne Narvaez Berlfein, DuChamp, Ithaka and Seamus O’Donnell circle around this poem interpreting it between words and metaphors, sounds images and screams.
What does it evoke to be on the verge of known and unknown realms? The artists in this episode of «Chromatic Wednesdays» explore this question using different approaches. In the improvisational performance «On the Verge», AKS focuses on individuals’ moments, meeting points and the ways they express themselves in relationship to ‹home› through various media.
The ‘FLU’* exhibition has a format where works by different artists will be added every 2-3 weeks and the exhibition will be completed on December 21. Each work will change the exhibition by taking inspiration from each other. FLU started on Saturday, November 4 with a 3-channel audiovisual installation by artist Aslı Dinç, and continued…
Sara Neidorf and Eli Lewy invite you to an evening of horror cinema with short films and experimental art films from female and queer perspectives. Eerie, macabre and comedic, the works find a haunting and at times sadistic sense of pleasure in deconstructing the filmic conventions of horror cinema. By digesting images of the normative, intact body as a whole, they appropriate and transform the tropes of the genre, revealing the everyday horror that surrounds us.
«Chromatic Wednesdays’» episode «Talking Nature» features four artistic short films that reflect the shifting notion of intelligence and look closely at the interaction between objects, machines, animals and humans. Intelligence is commonly understood to be the ability to acquire and apply knowledge. For centuries, Western humanist thought has propagated the idea that intelligence is an exclusively human phenomenon and that ‹man› is an autonomous agent, the measure of all things.
Inspired by Istanbul-born Armenian intellectual Eremya Celebi Komurciyan’s travel diaries from the 17th century, «Invisible to the Eye» traces his particular itinerary in today’s Istanbul.
Vernissage 9th of November 2023 – 17:30 to 22:30 Opening Hours: Wednesday to Saturday 16:00 to 19:00
04.11.2023 Asli Dinc 09.11.2023 Sifa Girinci 23.11.2023 Maria Kassab, Mina Mohsani, Ece Gökalp 07.12.2023 Vernissage & Performance: AKS Collective, Raha Faridi Performance 29.01.2024 Funke Collective
Altın Günü: A Farewell for Tea Sugar Dream 27 October 2023, 14:00 Altın Günü marks the conclusion of the Tea Sugar Dream project initiated by İpek Çınar. The aim of the project was to explore the concept of joy with first-generation women* from Turkey who migrated to Berlin in the 1960s and 1970s either as…
WAWA is a web archive that strives to create visibility and form a network for women+ artists from Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Turkey and Yemen, who are transforming the creative landscape of Berlin. Videos of WAWA Artists’ presentations on artistic practices can be watched at Apartment Project e.V. on October 19-20-23-26, 2023 from…
Eine Ausstellung des Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien kuratiert von Selda Asal, Şirin Fulya Erensoy und Özlem Sarıyıldız gefördert durch den Hauptstadtkulturfonds und die Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa (Ausstellungsfonds für Kommunale Galerie und Fonds für Ausstellungsvergütungen Bildender Künstler*innen). Beyond Home ist ein Projekt, das aus vier Teilen besteht: (1) eine Ausstellung im Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, (2) ein Wohnwagenanhänger,…
Where does dystopia begin and utopia end? The «Performance Museum» designed by Zookunft.Project collective members and performers Hannah Juliane Steenbeck and Milena Sundari explore these transitions, frictions and transformations as part of «Chromatic Wednesdays’» upcoming event.
This edition of «Chromatic Wednesdays» is a collaboration with the HIVE International Short Film Festival. The multidisciplinary festival features a diverse array of audiovisual performances, engaging panel discussions, educational workshops, and interactive Q&A sessions.
To deepen the conversation on «Collectivity», Prince Emrah, Astan KA, and the fem*ergy collective discuss the transformative potential of collectives in Berlin at the upcoming «Chromatic Wednesdays» event.
As part of the upcoming «Chromatic Wednesdays» event on the new monthly theme «Collectivity», you are invited to get to know Questionarch. With the alternative exhibition and project spaces Fix-o-tek and the Vide-o-tek in Berlin, Questionarch focuses on sustainability, public space, material reuse, and experimental urban concepts.
How do improvisation and given structures relate to each other? The musicians Hilary Jefferey, Ignaz Schick, Chris Pitsiokos, Germán Gabriel García and Markus Krispel test the possibilities of improvisation in the framework of Albert Amerioun’s light installation.
«Good Deed Bad Deed» is a board game created by artist İpek Çınar and legal academic İpek Aşıkoğlu that will presented at «Chromatic Wednesdays». It encourages people to express their intentions and discuss their own positions in producing and presenting photographs, while addressing structural discrimination such as racism, sexism, ageism, classism and discrimination based on faith.
The films featured in this «Chromatic Wednesdays» event not only draw on mythic narratives, but create their own. Using humor, irony, monsters, found footage, and mythic stories, they unravel the manipulative nature of myths as they incorporate them into their cinematic work to form enigmas to be deciphered again.
How do artists approach myths in today’s rationalized world and how do they enact their artistic practice in their own mythical recitals and rituals?
This episode of «Chromatic Wednesdays» shows two piano performances that revolve around the meaning of «Comma» in music theory, where it describes a very small interval, bringing two notes closer together by tuning them differently.
With the performance «Power Games» Pet the Poet and Zorka Wollny ask «How can new communities emerge and find a language against pressing social justice issues?
«Turbo Summation» by Mark Mushiva features a manifesto, his synth-inspired hip-hop album, spoken words, a music film, and a homemade wearable device that function as speculation, blurring the lines between reality and the imagined parallel present that plays out in Mark’s mind.
n this edition of «Chromatic Wednesdays», light fluctuates through the music, sound and noise performances by Lisa Simpson, Liz Kosack, and Viola Yip.
Gelgit» means «light fluctuation» in Turkish referring to the varying intensity and brightness of light. Figuratively, it relates to a situation or behavior that is unpredictable, fluctuating and changing, much like light.
In the Kurdish struggle for freedom, resistance at the intersection of grassroots democracy and feminism has largely empowered the Autonomous Administration of Northern and Eastern Syria, known as Rojava, to assume authority over the fighting powers in the region.
The theme of «Resistance» takes «Chromatic Wednesdays» to Refuge Worldwide, the host of the next episode, in which artists explore parallel narratives and streams of protest from multiple perspectives.
Although investments are increasingly being made in cities as predictable environments, urban structures are not able to withstand natural disasters. Urban planning based on scientific research seems to make cities resilient, but earthquakes, floods, and other consequences of climate change challenge such rational predictions.
Tumultuous sounds take us on a journey in the next episode of «Chromatic Wednesdays». They traverse places in musical, notebook-like observations, reflecting on the cross-cultural connections of the globalized world. On their expedition, they cross paths with eclectic sounds that symbolize the diversity of people and ideas coming together to fight for a common cause.
As an expression of solidarity with Ukrainians, «Chromatic Wednesdays» invites Freefilmers to its upcoming episode. The collective from Mariupol will present three of their short films reflecting eastern Ukrainian cities before and since the Russian invasion in 2022. The screenings will be followed by a Q&A session with Freefilmers co-founder Iryna Berezneva.
«Chromatic Wednesdays» invites WAWA to discuss how such spaces can be generated in a panel discussion. WAWA, Women+ Artists’ Web Archive is a database that strives to create visibility and a network of solidarity for women artists from Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, and Yemen.
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