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 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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