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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Wednesdays

Season 3
Episode 17

Theme:
Unbound

22 & 23 September ´23


BELONGINGS

Performance «Automine» by HYENAZ
Play «Tropical Gate» by Esme Madra & Büşra Albayrak
Music performance by Fezaya Firar
This edition of Chromatic Wednesdays was 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. Its program unites cultural producers and audiences to explore different perspectives on social issues fostering a dynamic exchange of ideas and community building. HIVE strives to create a vibrant and inclusive space and to empower unique voices. The third edition, on the theme «Unbound», focused on belonging in relation to detachment. How do roots, cultural traditions, geography and heritage shape our lives and our sense of belonging? What are the challenges and rewards of being unbound? How do filmmakers and performers negotiate this in their creative expression?

As part of HIVE, Chromatic Wednesdays presented three events: In their performance «Automine», HYENAZ explored the role of the body in the digital age. Bodies create value through physical labor, emotional labor and identifying markers such as gender or age that change through space and time. Through music, essay and a critical recitation of queer aesthetics, the performance questioned whether the virtual is replacing the body.

In «Tropical Gate», Esme Madra and Büşra Albayrak performed an auto-fictional piece that took the audience into the lives of two close friends living in Istanbul in the hectic year 2023. The story unfolded as they exchanged voice notes, focusing on their experiences and challenges during this time.
Echoing the sentiments of the films screened during the festival, FezayaFirar created a live set that invited listeners to reflect on ideas of belonging and detachment. Improvising on various synthesizers, the duo weaved together electrical and psycho-acoustic signals, drawing from both their cultural roots and uncharted terrains. Heading into «outer space», they sketched a noisy soundscape that pondered where they belong – or don’t. The performance was accompanied by a sci-fi-like «nature» mockumentary about an insect they encountered the previous summer in southern Turkey.

HYENAZ are sonic alchemists Kathryn Fischer aka Mad Kate and Adrienne Teicher who create electronic music and performances to address how bodies are criminalized, managed and controlled.
Using interactive dance, somatic exercises and immersive sonic theater, they investigate how movement shapes our subjectivity and how our subjectivity shapes the way we move. Since 2015, HYENAZ have created a series of audiovisual works, installations and performative interventions titled «Foreign Bodies» that explore relationships between bodies in motion and bodies in resistance, interrogating the notion of the «foreign». They have visited refugee camps, squats and intentional communities to conduct field recordings, interviews and deep listening workshops.

Büşra Nur Albayrak (b. 1996, Istanbul) studied acting at Kadir Has University. After graduating, she performed in «Floor» (2019) and acted in the theater play «The Writer» (2020). She appeared in various independent short films such as «Nazif» (2019), «The Room» (2021) and «Stormers» (2022). She is currently acting in the play «Ama» and teaching pole dance at Tanzlab Dance Studio in Istanbul, which she founded in 2021.

Esme Madra (b. 1987, Istanbul) studied acting at Mimar Sinan University. She acted in various independent films that received awards at international festivals and appeared in several theater plays, such as «Majority» (2010), «Zenne Dancer» (2011), «Maşenka» (2014), «Until I Lose My Breath» (2015) and «Ev’vel Zaman» (2016). She is currently acting in the play «Ama», directs short films and is interested in dancing and drawing.
FezayaFirar (Zurich/Berlin) is a duo founded in 2012 in Istanbul, named after one of the first Turkish sci-fi novels which translates into «escape into outer space». Their sound world consists of elements that invoke the monstrofobic dimension of space and infinity oscillating between industrial ambient, drone and technorhythmic soundscapes. The live synthesized musical layers build bridges between microcosm and macrocosm. FezayaFirar uses mainly analog and modular electronics, exploring their limits in their endless variety, occasionally accompanied by acoustic and DIY instruments and field recordings.

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