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.
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Berlin
CW#23 l SEASON 3 l A Desperate Vitality
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.
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Berlin
CW#22 l SEASON 3 l On the Verge
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.
2023
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Berlin
CW#21 l SEASON 3 l Some of Hell Is Born of Good Manners
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.
2023
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Berlin
CW#20 l SEASON 3 l Talking Nature
«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.
2023
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Berlin
CW#19 l SEASON 3 l Invisible to the Eye
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.
2023
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Berlin
CW#18 l SEASON 3 l Uncomfortable Utopia
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.
2023
Chromatic Wednesdays
Berlin
CW#17 l SEASON 3 l Belonging
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.
2023
Chromatic Wednesdays
Berlin
CW#16 l SEASON 3 l Collective Utopias
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.
2023
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Berlin
CW#15 l SEASON 3 l The Questionarch Solidarity Walk and Fundraiser and FEED
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.
2023
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Berlin
CW#14 l SEASON 3 l Light Exciter
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.
2023
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Berlin
CW#13 l SEASON 3 l Dare You Say: Game Night
«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.
2023
Chromatic Wednesdays
Berlin
CW#12 l SEASON 3 l Enigma
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.
2023
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Berlin
CW#11 l SEASON 3 l Chronicles
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?
2023
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Berlin
CW#10 l SEASON 3 l Equal Distance
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.
2023
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Berlin
CW#9 l SEASON 3 l Syntax
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.
2023
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Berlin
CW#8 l SEASON 3 l Spectrum
n this edition of «Chromatic Wednesdays», light fluctuates through the music, sound and noise performances by Lisa Simpson, Liz Kosack, and Viola Yip.
2023
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Berlin
CW#7 l SEASON 3 l Gelgit
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.
2023
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Berlin
CW#6 l SEASON 3 l Of Memories and Dreams
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.
2023
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Berlin
CW#5 l SEASON 3 l Refuge Worldwide presents «Parallels»
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.
2023
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Berlin
CW#4 l SEASON 3 l Trembling Ground
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.
2023
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Berlin
CW#3 l SEASON 3 l Tumultuous
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.
2023
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Berlin
CW#2 l SEASON 3 l Sketches of Eastern Ukraine
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.
2023
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Berlin
CW#1 l SEASON 3 l Thinking About the Meanings of the Archive
«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.
2022
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Berlin
CW#24 l SEASON 2 l 110 × 3:33:08
As part of the last edition of «Chromatic Wednesdays» this year, su dance110 will reflect on their sound practice in their solo performance by engaging metal objects in corporeal movements and voice, combining analog synthesizers and electronics, poetically and wildly navigating in between worlds of perception.
2022
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Berlin
CW#23 l SEASON 2 l Glaring Light
Curiosity drives us through «Chromatic Wednesdays’» episode «Glaring Light», in which three films explore both terrestrial and planetary landscapes to glimpse the future existing in the present.
2022
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Berlin
CW#22 l SEASON 2 l She-Pigeon
In the upcoming episode of «Chromatic Wednesdays», Selin Davasse slips into the role of She-Pigeon: a filthy pigeon with a cooing cunt who pecks at the feet of the audience in Kreuzberg’s Ölberg-Kirche.
2022
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Berlin
CW#21 l SEASON 2 l Presence of the Absent
In collaboration with Errant Sound, «Chromatic Wednesdays» presents three artistic works responding to the theme «Resonance». Through lecture performance, sound performance and film Julia Cremers, Bella and Mykola Ridnyi ask: how can resonance make an absence perceptible?
2022
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Berlin
CW#20 l SEASON 2 l Sunken Temple
Usually, the temple is the sacred place that provides sanctuary and keeps objects that are valued for their hallowed nature. In the case of Samuel Hall’s album, the «Sunken Temple» preserves memory through music and sound.
2022
Chromatic Wednesdays
Berlin
CW#19 l SEASON 2 l Cinema of Cockaigne w/ anorak
In «Chromatic Wednesdays’» event on «Inversion» the curatorial collective anorak invites the public to its first edition of the «Cinema of Cockaigne», for which it has selected films and sound by Rosa Aiello, Jamie Crewe, John Smith, and others.