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 5

Theme:
Resistance

26 April ´23

REFUGE WORLDWIDE  presents «PARRALELS»
Performances by:

Charlie Potie
Cruz Proxy
Laura Vargas
Oscar Atanga
Richard Akingbehin
Sarah Zeryab
Tianna Strickland
The theme of «Resistance» took Chromatic Wednesdays to Refuge Worldwide, the host of this episode, in which artists explored parallel narratives and streams of protest from multiple perspectives. Refuge was founded in 2015 as a fundraising platform working in solidarity with grassroots and non-profit organizations, and in 2021 launched Refuge Worldwide, a gender-balanced radio station amplifying music and topics of underrepresented artists. As part of the event, Refuge Worldwide presented an evening of sonic, visual and spoken interpretations of the topic «Resistance» by members of the radio station. In a variety of media, the artists told stories and asked questions around the diversity and overlaps of different forms of resistance.

Laura Vargas made a large-scale live drawing by recreating natural landscapes that were and still are spaces of resistance (places of ecological resistance, landscapes of peasant and indigenous struggle, sacred places exploited during colonialism and today by the oil industry, mining and monoculture). The process of painting from memory took place intuitively and in dialogue with the music played live.

In their latest storytelling work, «A series of stories», which Charlie Potié presented at Chromatic Wednesdays, they critique the late stage capitalist world with its liberal technology and intrusive science. They use narrative tools as a way to speak up, fiction as an act of resilience, and voice, sound and visuals to enable a transformation of perception – cinematic scenes and magical realism were to be expected.

«Staring at Static Noise» is a functional attempt at a video by Sarah Zeryab. It springs from a visual essay that strives to navigate and then deconstruct the medium, space, and language. The video shows the body as an object situated in the interior, in the domestic sphere, where it has no function other than to seek out the interruption.
«Erosion (pt. 2)» is the second installment of a performance co-produced by choreographer Emilie Gregersen and Cruz Proxy. The work delves into the concept of erosion as both a natural phenomenon and a subversive act in itself. The piece shows the gradual process of reshaping and renegotiating the boundaries of rigidity, offering a fresh perspective on the subtle interplay between nature and human connection. Throughout the piece, the performer subtly and synthetically moved through the space, creating plateaus of trust and nostalgia through a tech-sensual glitch that blurs the lines between reality and fiction.

For his performance, Oscar Atanga used a mixture of instruments and devices to create ambient soundscapes and sonic collages incorporating live playing, samples and possible audience participation.

At the event, Tianna Strickland read her poetry, which is about honestly confronting tough feelings. Besides, she included excerpts from «How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America» by Kiese Laymon and quotes from Audre Lorde that are about community in her reading. By unleashing deep emotions, Strickland’s poetry functions as a catalyst to get people to speak more openly about their vulnerabilities in public.

In his performance, Richard Akingbehin played experimental music and other types of protest music, incorporating audio recordings of speeches, interviews and voice notes of friends talking about what resistance means to them.

Born in Colombia and based in Berlin, Laura Vargas draws inspiration from the analytical characteristics of surrealism and the aesthetics of various forms of ancestral symbolism, mystery and mysticism. Her dreamscapes are the result of intuitive work that seeks and creates its own language of codes and unconscious desires. With her drawings, objects and installations, Laura stages different emotions that move between love and hopelessness, nostalgia and melancholy, nature and spirituality.

Charlie Potié, based in Berlin, is a multidisciplinary artist with a degree in architecture (MA, Nantes) and a background in classical music and jazz. Their artistic practice spans music, film, text and painting. They create stories through sensory experiences, paying attention to textures and the social, spatial and sonic poetics of the in-between. Charlie is active in the Refuge Worldwide radio community and the queer orchestra Concentus Alius as first violinist. Their most recent focus is access in event spaces for people with disabilities.
Sarah Zeryab is a Palestinian artist and filmmaker. She lives, works and studies in Berlin. Currently she is studying Fine Arts at the Berlin University of the Arts. Using audiovisual and spatial means, her work deals with the narration and retelling of the affective and aesthetic materializations of loss, grief and resistance in the context of an analysis of European legacies of modernity, colonialism and the production of history today.

Cruz Proxy (b. in San José, Costa Rica) is a Latinx artist based in Berlin and Copenhagen. Cruz holds a BFA and MFA from the Funen Art Academy in Denmark (2019). They are the co-founder of the art duo L9. Their multidisciplinary practice draws on ideas of social constructivism and reinterpretation of diverse narratives. Their work spans a spectrum that closely links dystopia, satire, aesthetics, spiritual practices and identity with lived experiences and emotional exploration. Conceptualization is at the core of Cruz’s work and can be translated into a wide range of media and methods, from video to installation, 3D animation, text, sound, performance and sculpture.

Oscar Atanga aka O.N.A is a Cameroonian sound artist, curator and DJ. Born and raised in Manchester, Oscar lived and worked in London for several years after studying at Oxford University. In his studio in Berlin, where he is currently based, Oscar mainly produces electronic music, which he combines with live instruments in various solo and collaborative projects. Oscar’s sonic practice is driven by the exploration of textures and the decolonization of sounds and spaces. Oscar seeks to transcend genre and style boundaries while reclaiming diasporic musical expressions and reflecting their breadth and depth. Oscar is a Refuge Worldwide Resident and is also a core member of Black Artist Database (B.A.D).

Tianna Strickland is a multi-disciplinary artist currently focusing on poetry and analog photography. She attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City for her Bachelor of Fine Arts majoring in film and video. Tianna self-published her first art book in January 2021 titled «Hearts will be Broken», which includes poetry and photographs. Tianna draws inspiration for her work from the dualities of the world, personal memories and the people around her. She makes vulnerability and difficult emotions visible in hope of promoting understanding of how deeply connected we all are.

Richard Akingbehin is co-founder of the Berlin-based radio station Refuge Worldwide and the founder of the techno, experimental and dub label Kynant Records. His DJ sets draw from a wide range of genres – house, techno, garage and ambient – with dub influences running like a red thread through his performances.

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