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 21

Theme:
Resonance

23 November ´22


PRESENCE OF THE ABSENT
Performance and film screening in Errant Sound
In collaboration with Errant Sound, Chromatic Wednesdays presented three artistic works responding to the theme «Resonance». Through lecture performance, sound performance, and film Julia Cremers, Bella, and Mykola Ridnyi asked: how can resonance make an absence perceptible?

Lecture performance «The Floor‘s Ocean» by Julia Cremers
In her lecture performance «The Floor‘s Ocean», Julia Cremers explored the tech-savvy identity of warriors by immersing herself in the rising waters in the Dutch province of Flevoland: a 1400 square kilometer area reclaimed from the Zuiderzee in 1986 after an intensive process of drainage and dike construction. On the former seabed, which is still far below sea level, greenhouses now house valuable tropical orchids, companies are developing green solutions to sustain industrial-scale production processes, while microplastics in recreational areas testify to the growing issue of environmental pollution.

Sound performance «Vasa» by Bella
«The object contains gove (soul). Life is not contained. Therefore, the dust of the dead inside a vase is blown out. Life has returned to the ashes. Here, what is contained is sound. And it leaks out. With its microphonies, and displacements in the air, sound is leaking its life – its form is not contained. Its life, its form is not contained, and it disperses, amplifies itself. Sound as living matter.»

Film screening of «Regular Places» by Mykola Ridnyi (16 min, 2015/2022), followed by a Q&A with the film maker, moderated by Steffi Weismann
In «Regular Places», Mykola Ridnyi films the comings and goings of citizens in five public places in Kharkiv from a static point of view. Without context, the uneventful footage initially seems incongruous with the brutally violent conflict between pro-Ukrainian and pro-Russian activists that took place here just a few months earlier. Since February 2022, the city of Kharkiv has been subjected to massive attacks by the Russian army. That’s why Ridnyi overlaid the quiet images with audio excerpts from online videos: shouted threats, warnings, insults, and intimidation echo in the indifferent scenes. In this way, he confronts recent traumatic memories and the current state of collective denial in his film work.
Julia Cremers (b. 1993 in the Netherlands) studied Audiovisual Art at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in the Netherlands, completed a Master of Fine Art in Norway and currently lives in Berlin. Julia is a member of the sound art collective Errant Sound and co-organizer of PARALLAX Lab. In her performances and audiovisual installations, Cremers explores the intersection between the sensorial and virtual. She is interested in the constructed understanding of our cultural identities and our relationship to the world, observing how life can operate in (re)constructed environments. Her practice uses photogrammetry and 3D modeling, though from the embodied perspective of the artist herself. She subtly reveals her artistic choices by leaving biometric clues such as handheld camera shake, shadows, and traces of body parts.

BELLA (b. in Rio de Janeiro) works in installation, performance, video, and makes field recordings and music albums in which she explores the physical and magical aspects of sound and light. With her performances she aims to erase the boundaries between sound and space. She holds a Master in music specialized in sonology from the University of São Paulo and has participated in several artistic residencies in Brazil and Europe. Her participation in festivals and exhibitions include City as a Forest - Museum of Tomorrow, Amplify - Oi Futuro, One Beat Virtual, CTM Music Makers Hacklab, Ende Tymes Festival (New York), Sonic Matter Festival (Zurich) and Digital Art Biennial.

Mykola Ridnyi (b. in Kharkiv) is an artist, filmmaker, and curator living and working in Kiev. In 2008 he graduated from the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Art. Ridnyi is a founding member of the artist collective SOSka group. In 2022 he curated several screening programs of Ukrainian films and videos at MAXXI Rome, Museum Folkwang Essen, National Gallery in Sofia and other venues. Ridnyi works across media, from site-specific installations and sculptures to photography and experimental films. His work has been shown in exhibitions and film festivals, including Survival Kit 13 (Riga, 2022), Transmediale at HKW (Berlin, 2019), the 35th Kassel Documentary Film Festival (2018), and All the World’s Futures at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015).



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