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          Looking Back and Moving Forward
E.2          Liquid Machine
E.1           Escargot à la Rostropovich!
             




Chromatic Wednesdays is a monthly interdisciplinary event series based in Berlin, organized by visual artist and filmmaker Emre Birişmen and sound artist Melih Sarıgöl. The series brings together various artistic practices, including performance, sound, moving image, and panel discussions, in thematically structured programs at different venues across the city. 

Chromatic Wednesdays, which previously centered around the Apartment Project space in Neukölln, will transition to a mobile and decentralized structure for its upcoming fourth and fifth seasons. This shift aims to encourage stronger collaborations, emphasize site-specific thinking, and build new connections that reflect the social and cultural fabric of Berlin.
             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 7

Theme:
Light

17 May ´23


GELGİT

«Gelgit» by Seda Mimaroğlu and Zeynep Toraman
«Diyarbakır.Tourism.Romanticism.Activism» by Nadir Sönmez
«Gelgit» means «tide» in Turkish. It may refer to the varying intensity and brightness of light. Figuratively, it relates to a situation or behavior that is unpredictable, fluctuating and changing, much like light. In the multimedia piece «Gelgit» by Seda Mimaroğlu and Zeynep Toraman, words, images and sound interplay in such an unpredictable way, weaving a tapestry of fluid textual, visual and sonic metaphors of light, elements, textures and patterns.

Light and darkness – Nadir Sönmez uses these opposites to contrast queer visibility and solidarity in different cultural contexts. In his multimedia project «Diyarbakır.Tourism.Romanticism.Activism», comprising an autobiographical performance, an essay film and documentary theater, he portrays Kurdish LGBTIQ+ activism in Diyarbakır. In contrast, solidarity networks seem to play a different role for the career of the gay Francophone Turkish artist in the play. While the black and white nature of the film visually obscures, it amplifies the voices that can be heard in the darkness, reclaiming public space by integrating homosexual intimacy into everyday life.

Seda Mimaroğlu is a poet, artist and literary scholar from Istanbul. She works with words, images and sound, and her practice and performances include collaborations with other poets, artists, musicians, curators and scholars. Her recent publications include the poetry collection «Love Songs» (Blue Figure Press) and the audio tape «Loose Leaves» in collaboration with Andreas Reihse (Wanda). Mimaroğlu’s work was recently exhibited at Stations and Periode in Berlin.
Zeynep Toraman is a composer and scholar who lives and works in Berlin. She completed her PhD in Music Composition at Harvard University in 2023 and taught at the Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. Zeynep’s practice-based research explores the ways in which texts interact with each other within the larger framework of musical compositions. Viewing her own library as an archive, she enfolds autobiographical, poetic, fictional and historical components within her work. She has collaborated with Ensemble Proton, andPlay, Lauren Cauley and ELISION Ensemble, among others. Her music has been performed at festivals such as the Sommerakademie Schloss Solitude, IRCAM ManiFeste and Wet Ink Large Ensemble Readings.

Nadir Sönmez is an actor, writer and director. He studied theater at Sorbonne-Nouvelle University. He received acting training at the Paris Erik Satie Conservatory and earned an MA in acting at Istanbul’s Kadir Has University. In his digital project «Murder of the Male», shared with the audience on WhatsApp, he conducted a social autopsy of gay porn stars’ suicides in the US (Istanbul Fringe Festival, 2020). He staged a reading of «Les Fils des Hétérosexuels», his first play in French, which addresses the representation of race in gay porn, at the Paris Cité Internationale des Arts in 2021. His play «Ama», a conversation piece exploring sexual politics of young Turkish artists, was invited to Dresden for the Fast Forward European Festival For Young Stage Directors in 2021.

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