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 4

Theme:
Exile

27 April ´22


AUNTED / DESERT
Syria, 2014, 112 min, Arabic with
English subtitles) by Liwaa Yazji,
followed by a conversation with
the filmmaker, moderated by Erden Kosova

Concert by Rasha Nahas
Chromatic Wednesdays continues its exploration of the theme “Exile” with filmmaker Liwaa Yazji and musician Rasha Nahas. Liwaa Yazji’s award-winning film “Haunted” delves into the loss of home and security, tracing the reasons why people either stay in or leave their homes during the war in Syria. The film also explores the material and metaphorical meanings of home. By conveying the physical, emotional, and psychological toll of displacement, it captures the uncertainty resulting from flight and displacement due to war, creating a non-space that exists between yesterday and tomorrow.

Rasha Nahas introduces her listeners to her Palestinian background through sonic landscapes, influenced in no small part by the underground scene of her hometown, Haifa. Her songs often narrate moments of transition, departure, and arrival. Her 2021 album “Desert” documents her journey from Haifa, where she wrote most of the songs, through Turkey, where she penned the last track while sitting under a tree by a river, to Germany, where she recorded the album at her new home base.

Liwaa Yazji is a Syrian filmmaker, playwright, TV screenwriter, dramaturge, and poet. With degrees in English Literature and Theatre Studies, she has lived and worked in Beirut and Berlin. Liwaa’s play “Q&Q” premiered at the B!RTH festival at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester in 2016, and her play “Goats” premiered at The Royal Court in London in 2017. In 2015, Liwaa was a poet-in-residence at New York’s Poets House. Currently, she is the co-writer of “HEIM,” a television series to be produced in Germany, and a board member of Ettijahat-Independent Culture. Her libretto for the opera “Songs for Days to Come” will premiere in June 2022 at the Theater Osnabrück.

Palestinian singer, composer, and instrumentalist Rasha Nahas has a distinctive approach to songwriting, storytelling, and performance. Her sound seamlessly traverses the resonances of early rock ‘n’ roll and the anarchic heyday of ‘80s experimental electronica. Rasha’s critically acclaimed debut album “Desert” was featured on BBC Radio 4’s Loose Ends and the Spotify-produced podcast, Spotify:Mic Check. Her upcoming LP “Amrat” is set to be released in the summer of 2022, with tours scheduled across Europe and West Asia. Rasha’s first venture into the Arabic language explores themes of home, belonging, spirituality, freedom, and her relationship with her mother tongue. Rasha is among the first recipients of the Bertha Foundation’s Artivism Award in 2022.

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