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 22

Theme:
Home

13 December ´23

 ON THE VERGE
Performance «On the Verge» (25 Min) by AKS (Gizem Akman, likabari, Nour Sokhon, Selda Asal) and screening of «Tactics of Desire: A Prescription for the Explorer, the Fisherman, the Fish» (2022, 7 min) by Maryam Katan
What does it evoke to be on the verge of known and unknown realms? The artists in this episode of Chromatic Wednesdays explored this question using different approaches. In the improvisational performance «On the Verge», AKS focused on individuals’ moments, meeting points and the ways they express themselves in relation to ‹home› through various media. Referring to the concept of ‹flu›, which in Turkish, Arabic and Persian stands for a faded, unclear, indistinct image (derived from the Latin word ‹flavus›), the associated exhibition featured new works every three weeks that inspire each other.

By re-animating a personal narrative, «Tactics of Desire: A Prescription for the Explorer, the Fisherman, the Fish» attempts to reveal the touristic gaze and various layers of exploitative relations between the guest and the host, human and non-human. At the same time, the video by Maryam Katan questions the urge for taxonomy and systematic knowledge about nature.

AKS is a Berlin-based audiovisual performance group created by contemporary artists from Iran, Lebanon and Turkey with diverse backgrounds. AKS’s artistic productions are based on bringing together fragmented micro-stories of women through movement, spoken word, music and new media.

Gizem Akman (b. 1986) graduated from Mimar Sinan State Conservatory in the contemporary dance department in Istanbul. Akman works as an interdisciplinary dance artist, performer, choreographer, voice artist and actress. She has been active in contemporary dance techniques, improvisation and movement research from a young age. Based in Berlin since 2016, Akman is (still) moving, dreaming, searching, researching, laughing and observing.
likabari  (b. 1992, Tehran) is an interdisciplinary performance and visual artist based in Berlin. After finishing her studies in architecture, her movement background in different sports and dance fields (Flamenco-ats-improvisation) as a professional trainer and performer led her to study macro-techniques at HZT University in Berlin. She works as a choreographer, performer, model, set designer, stylist, and photographer. Her conceptual work is experimental, multilayered, detail- and process-oriented, as well as research- and improvisation-based.

Nour Sokhon is a Lebanese artist based between Beirut and Berlin. Her creative practice focuses on exploring different methods of artistic research, including interview material, field recordings and recorded material from organized site-specific interventions. Sokhon translates her research into sound/music compositions, performances, interactive installations and moving image work.
Selda Asal studied musicology and art. Her projects, based on films, sound installations and music videos, explore the social and psychological aspects of loss and trauma as well as the mechanisms and politics of memory. Driven by her inclination towards collective work, she founded Apartman Project in 1999, one of the first artist-run exhibition spaces in Istanbul, focusing on interdisciplinary exchange, teamwork and process-oriented production. Since 2012, the project has continued as Apartment Project e.V. in Berlin.

Maryam Katan (b. 1989) is a Berlin-based artist working with animation, film and audio-visual installations. She received her MFA in animation directing from Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran. In her practice, she deals with shifting and repositioning meanings in non-original discourses, seeking alternative cognitive models. She currently works as the editor of the experimental animation’s section in Iran’s only specialized animation quarterly magazine and is a board member of the collective Animation; Experiment.



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