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 3
Episode 1

Theme:
Solidarity

15 January ´23


THINKING ABOUT THE MEANING OF THE ARCHIVE

Panel discussion with filmmaker Najwa Ahmed and dancer and choreographer Gizem Aksu, moderated by researcher Nil Mutluer

Concert by İpek Ural (PEK)
In order to create solidarity, creating space for community across disciplines and borders enables thinking together about and against marginalization. Chromatic Wednesdays invited WAWA to discuss how such spaces can be generated in a panel discussion. WAWA, Women+ Artists’ Web Archive, is a database that strives to create visibility and a network of solidarity for women artists from Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Syria, Turkey and Yemen. It asks: How can an online archive go beyond simply being a digital database and serve its community in a more embodied manner? What forms of archiving should it take? What are its socio-political and cultural implications? With these questions in mind, the panel covered WAWA’s ongoing journey, and initiators and members unpacked terms such as «living», «engaged» and «interactive» archive to conceptualize alternative ways of activating archives.
Najwa Ahmed is a Palestinian visual artist, writer and curator based in Berlin since 2020. She graduated in English studies in Palestine and completed studies in visual arts at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin and the Berlin University of the Arts. In Palestine, she was active in the social and cultural field as a translator, social worker and project developer. In Brussels she worked as a dramaturg, creative director and theater performer. Her artistic practice moves between writing, theater, film, video, land art and visual art. She explores themes of displacement, queer politics, identity and belonging, collective memory and intersectional feminism. She writes for Arabic and English language publications and platforms, such as JEEM – Sexuality and Gender, Visual Verse, CFFP’ magazine Disrupted, the NewArab and Sasapost.

Gizem Aksu is an independent choreographer, dancer, activist and former academic from Istanbul living in Berlin. She graduated in Political Science and International Relations from Boğaziçi University and Contemporary Dance from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, where she also earned her PhD. Due to her enthusiasm for undermining the ground of social theory with artistic experiments, she shifted from political science to dance, installation, film and text. Through her art, she creates a portal where spirituality and politics intertwine, approaching the body as an energetic field by finding artistic expressions and incarnations that are socially interactive, physically provocative and contextually situated. As a researcher and activist, she is closely connected to feminist sociocultural studies, social anthropology, and queer studies.

Nil Mutluer is a social scientist who holds a PhD in Comparative Gender Studies from the Central European University and advocates for rights and freedoms. Nil works and acts in the intersectional space of academia, civil society, media and arts. She has published in various academic and non-academic journals and newspapers on diversity (gender, ethnic, and religious), nationalism, migration, memory studies and Turkish politics. She is currently a Senior Researcher at the University of Leipzig and a Research Fellow at EUME – Forum Transregional Studies in Berlin. Between 2021 and 2022, she produced the socio-political discussion program Başka Düşünce (The Other Thinking) at ArtıTV and also co-produces intermittent sociological and political analysis programs on television.

İpek Ural (PEK) is a classical pianist from Istanbul and has performed in various choirs, rock bands and operas between 2009 and 2012. Ural has been composing her own recordings for the last two years and started releasing her songs in 2021. She is also busking in Berlin since 2020. She describes her art as an expression of her emotions through dreamy sounds. Her songs are based on real events and situations, so they can be described as her emotional diary and a self-healing method that allows troubled emotions to flow.

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