Chromatic

Index
Season  3



E.24      CW x Postklub Satellite
E.23      A Desperate Vitality
E.22      On the Verge
E.21       Some of Hell Is Born of Good Manners
E.20      Talking Nature
E.19        Invisible to the Eye
E.18        Uncomfortable Utopia
E.17        Belonging
E.16        Collective Utopias
E.15        The Questionarch Solidarity Walk and Fundraiser and FEED
E.14        Light Exciter
E.13        Dare You Say: Game Night
E.12        Enigma
E.11         Chronicles
E.10        Equal Distance
E.9          Syntax
E.8          Spectrum
E.7          Gelgit
E.6          Of Memories and Dreams
E.5          Refuge Worldwide presents «Parallels»
E.4          Trembling Ground
E.3          Tumultuous
E.2          Sketches of Eastern Ukraine
E.1              E.1           Thinking about the Meanings of the Archive

Se    
Season 2


E.24      110 × 3:33:08
E.23      Glaring Light
E.22      She-Pigeon
E.21       Presence of the Absent
E.20     Sunken Temple
E.19        Cinema of Cockaigne w/ anorak
E.18        Anatolian Leopard
E.17        Phantom Power & Eribòz
E.16        Maths, Euphoria, and Misinterpretations
E.15        Rockingdesk & Fine Tuning
E.14       «Chromatic Wednesdays» in collaboration with Hive International  Short Film Days  Berlin
E.13        Offseeds present  «Tales of Extinction»
E.12        The Matter of Memory
E.11         A.I.D and abet! #3
E.10        Anthony Hüseyin – Project O: «Yıldızların Altında» Release
E.9          MitEinAnder – an exploration
E.8          Troubled Relations
E.7          The Ruins of Empire
E.6          Wanderings Through Uncertainty
E.5          The Hungry and the Restless
E.4          Haunted / Desert
E.3          Part 1 / Part 2
E.2          Liquid Machine
E.1           Escargot à la Rostropovich!
             



“Chromatic Wednesdays”is a bi-weekly event series organized by Apartment Project, which promotes artistic expression across various disciplines and formats. Each month, Chromatic Wednesdays focuses on a new theme, for which two events are realized. In 2022, the themes were: Improvisation, Exile, Precarity, Mutualism, Recurrence, Echoes, Divergence, Instability, Curiosity, Resonance, Sanctuary and Inversion. In 2023: Solidarity, Upheaval, Resistance, Light, Comma, Mythology, Position, Urbanism, Unbound, Dystopia, Home and Intelligence. Chromatic Wednesdays invited artists, musicians, performers, scientists and cultural practitioners to collaborate, experiment and share their unique research, practices and experiences with each other and the public. The events included a wide range of multidisciplinary, hybrid formats, including concerts, performances, workshops, film screenings, lectures, exhibitions, readings, and panel discussions.

In 2021 the project came to life as a reaction to artistic disruption caused by the pandemic.  Today numerous challenges persistently endanger cultural production. How do artists and  audiences from different backgrounds and mediums come together? What forms of new expression can be explored or can be expanded? What kind of new networks between institutions and artists can be established? How can these networks sustain the survival of the artists?

As part of Chromatic Wednesdays’ Season 2 and 3, a total of 167 participants from countries, such as Turkey, Germany, France, Italy, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Ukraine, Norway, Japan, Iran, Poland, Switzerland, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Sweden, Russia, China, the U.K, USA, Portugal, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cameroon, Namibia, Israel, Egypt, Spain, Austria, Ireland, Russia, Taiwan were invited. Of them, 92 female, 63 male and 12 non-binary participated.

The very first editions were streamed online due to Corona measures. Since June 2021, the events have been held in a hybrid format, mainly at the Apartment Project and online.
             Team:                    Emre Birişmen – Project Lead / Coordination / Video Production
Melih Sarıgöl – Project Lead / Administration / Sound Production
Selda Asal – Lead Artistic Advisor
Berk Asal – Production / Administration
Gabriela Seith – Content Writer / German Translation
Merey Şenocak / Ece Gökalp / Gökçe Berndt / Soliane Malefond – Promotion / Social Media
Suat Can Beldek – Graphic / Webdesign
Beril Ece Güler / Cemre Bayatlıer – Production Assistant

2nd Season Advisory Board:                   Selda Asal, Valentina Karga, Florian Wüst, İpek İpekçioğlu, Steffi Weismann

3rd Season Advisory Board:                   Berk Asal, Anıl Eraslan, Zorka Wollny, Stéphane Bauer, anorak (Lukas Ludwig / Johanna Markert)
                Moderation:                   Erden Kosova, Şirin Fulya Erensoy, Florian Wüst, Nil Mutluer

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Season 2
Episode 2

Theme:
Improvisation

16 March ´22


LIQUID MACHINE
Audiovisual Installation by
Max Michel Thillaye
Performance by Marta Antinucci and Mehmet Güren
The second Chromatic Wednesdays event on improvisation considered the interrelation of visual and performative arts with music in the infinity of possibilities, expressed through improvisation. In «Four human faces, each stuck in a video frame, slave to the rhythm» Max Michel Thillaye confronts clay statues with sound impulses. The sculpture-like busts react differently. As they are actually human beings they animate the figures with movement and facial expressions. In the audiovisual art project, sound unfolds movement out of stillness, unraveling a wide range of emotional transformations, even as all faces receive the same sound. Far from a deliberate choice, the work shows how human movements and reactions are as unpredictable as improvisations.

Having always harbored an avid interest in audio-visual work, Max Michel Thillaye, a French filmmaker based in Berlin, perceives film as a tool to transmit the human experience into a visual narrative. Thillaye’s work centers around the action of dissecting moments by rupturing indoctrinated routines, striving to show the constructs that make up our existence in society. The works often deal with the act of adaptation, but also explore the process of ripping free from such structures. Therefore, chance and improvisation are crucial elements of his approach, as much as the interaction between the environment and the actors.

The second part of this episode presented the site-specific performance «Liquid Machine» by Marta Antinucci and Mehmet Güren. It combines the idea of liquidity through a sensory imagination with the interaction between the rhythmic sound produced by Mehmet Güren and the movement through the expansive installation by Marta Antinucci. The improvised interplay transforms the installation space, which is related to the water world. This allows the artists to animate Zygmunt Bauman’s «Liquid Modernity», which describes the increasing sense of uncertainty, but also the nomadism that allows people to flow through life, as Antinucci will do through the space.
Marta Antinucci is an Italian multidisciplinary artist, performer, and choreographer currently based in Berlin. She considers movement as a vocabulary that she expands to multi-disciplinary languages starting from the body together with the interventions of voice, plastic, hair, cables, paint, fabrics, tiles, concrete. Formerly based on techniques of contemporary dance, Urban dance, release, modern dance, ballet, and acting, her practice currently aims to break these forms. She therefore explores new dynamisms triggered by realistic references together with visual and sensorial interventions and empowered by the use of repetition. For «Liquid Machine» she collaborates with Mehmet Güren, a sound artist, composer and producer from Istanbul currently based in Berlin. His work focuses on exploring data-driven textures, creating rhythmic mutations, and balancing seemingly incompatible influences by combining modular synthesis techniques with samples from field recordings.Marta Antinucci is an Italian multidisciplinary artist, performer, and choreographer currently based in Berlin. She considers movement as a vocabulary that she expands to multi-disciplinary languages starting from the body together with the interventions of voice, plastic, hair, cables, paint, fabrics, tiles, concrete. Formerly based on techniques of contemporary dance, urban, release, modern, ballet, and acting, her practice currently aims to break these forms. She therefore explores new dynamisms triggered by realistic references together with visual and sensorial interventions and empowered by the use of repetition. For Liquid Machine she collaborates with Mehmet Güren, a sound artist, composer and producer from Istanbul currently based in Berlin. His work focuses on exploring data-driven textures, creating rhythmic mutations, and balancing seemingly incompatible influences by combining modular synthesis techniques with samples from field recordings.


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