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 3

Theme:
Exile

13 April ´22


PART 1 /
PART 2
Online Networks for Artists from Syria: A conversation with Humam Alsalim and Khaled Barakeh, moderated by Erden Kosova

Healing through the Screen: A conversation with Amina Maher and screening of her film «Letter to my Mother» (2019, 19 min, Germany, Iran), moderated by Şirin Fulya Erensoy
Part I
Exile means not only the loss of a place but also the reorientation in a new one. How do artists deal with finding themselves in an unfamiliar setting? Art is often a place where dealing with these changes and challenges can unfold, and artists in exile build structures of solidarity. Panelists Humam Alsalim and Khaled Barakeh discussed the practical challenges of exhibiting art and connecting to local networks in a new country and shared their experiences of building collective platforms. Humam Alsalim is co-founder of «Syria.Art», a non-profit association based in Nice, France, that organizes multi-medium art exhibitions, film screenings, and cultural events for Syrian-born artists. Khaled Barakeh co-founded «coculture», a nonprofit cultural organization based on the intersection of art activism and community building to support exile culture and cultural practitioners. In conversation with Erden Kosova, the artists talked about the goal of their projects to give non-European artists a chance to gain a foothold in European countries.

Humam Alsalim is an architect, curator, and digital artist based in Syria and Berlin. While studying architecture in Damascus, he started an online project to archive and promote Syrian art, which later resulted in the association and online gallery «Syria.Art», founded with Khaled Youssef. He also e-promotes art from the Middle East in the Cyrrus Gallery and organizes exhibitions such as «Behind the Lines» (2016), which included over 100 artworks from 20 Syrian artists and traveled to 18 museums and galleries worldwide.

Khaled Barakeh is a conceptual artist and cultural activist from Syria, now living in Berlin. His work has been exhibited internationally at various museums, biennales, and institutions. Driven by his observations of long-standing social injustice, Barakeh approaches creative practice as a tool for societal change, for example in his organization coculture, founded in 2017.  
Erden Kosova is an art critic and curator from Istanbul and has been part of the curatorial team of the Berlin Autumn Salon at the Maxim Gorki Theater since 2013. In 2020, together with Galit Eilat, he organized the online discussion show «Art in Dark Times» at the independent project space bi’bak in Berlin. Kosova recently co-curated the exhibition «Thorn Shelter» (Depo Istanbul, 2021), which focused on the sixtieth anniversary of the recruitment agreement between Turkey and Germany and its sociological consequences and is part of the curatorial team of «Twister» at nGbK.
Part II
The second panel looked at experiences of oppression and censorship by authoritarian regimes that oppose non-normative gender and sexualities. The LGBTQI+ artist Amina Maher offered insights into how artists use artistic expression to overcome normative discourses and how creativity can serve as a form of survival that provides hope for real and lasting change. Maher’s film «Letter to My Mother» is an autobiographical short documentary, in which she intimately addresses her trauma of sexual violence. It explores feelings of shame, fear, and guilt, using the medium film as a tool for healing and understanding. The formal and stylistic choices embrace both a radically intimate perspective and the exposure of social taboos, pushing the boundaries of film to achieve a cathartic and emancipatory experience. Following the screening, Maher talked about the production of the film and its thematization of self-exploration, family politics, and trauma therapy. In conversation with Şirin Fulya Erensoy, she also shared her experiences as a refugee fleeing political persecution in Iran and the realities of life as a trans woman in Berlin.

Amina Maher is an Iranian queer filmmaker whose work explores themes of gender and identity in the context of violence and power structures. After acting in several films, she has produced her own films, such as «Sweet Gin and Cold Wine» (2014) and «Orange» (2015). Maher is currently pursuing a master’s degree in film directing at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf in Potsdam.

Şirin Fulya Erensoy is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Post-doctoral Fellow at the Film University Babelsberg. Her academic work concentrates on video activism, film censorship, and gender in genre cinema. She was the host of independent media outlet Medyascope TV’s English news bulletin «This Week in Turkey» (2019-2021) and has worked as a lecturer in film and television at various institutions in Turkey. She also has practical professional experience in documentary film production.
This edition of «Chromatic Wednesdays» takes place in cooperation with «Twister», an exhibition project at the neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK, 26 February – 30 April 2022). 


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