Chromatic

Index
Season  4

E.1         E.1          Suspension  - UPCOMING


          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.
             Current Team:                     Emre Birişmen – Lead / Coordination / Video Production
Melih Sarıgöl –  Lead / Administration / Sound Production
Beril Ece Güler - Graphic Design / Production Asisstant


Current Advisory Board Season 4:                    Korhan Erel, Florian Wüst,  Anette Maechtel

Moderation:                                         Erden Kosova, Şirin Fulya Erensoy, Florian Wüst, Nil Mutluer
Past Advisory Board Members                    Berk Asal, Anıl Eraslan, Zorka Wollny, Stéphane Bauer, anorak (Lukas Ludwig / Johanna Markert)
Selda Asal, Valentina Karga, Florian Wüst, İpek İpekçioğlu, Steffi Weismann
                Past Team Members
                    Merey Şenocak, Ece Gökalp , Gökçe Berndt, Soliane Malefond 
Suat Can Beldek, Gabriela Seith, Berk Asal, Selda Asal
Cemre Bayatlıer, Bengisu Caglayan

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Season 4
Episode 1

Theme:
Unlearning & Reimagining

4 February ´26


SUSPENSION

İpek Erdöl and Quang Nguyen
Azza El-Hassan
Sirin Fulya Erensoy and Mudar Al-Khufash
Mbiriko

Suspension
Season 4, Episode 1
Chromatic Wednesdays

04.02.2026 18:00 
@refugeworldwide
Niemetzstraße 1, 12055 Berlin

Theme: Unlearning and Reimagining
in collaboration with Refuge Worldwide & awhām

In a moment shaped by prolonged violence, displacement, and the saturation of images, how do we continue to watch, listen, and take responsibility? What happens when images no longer promise explanation or resolution, and when documentation becomes inseparable from survival?

This evening is framed around unlearning and reimagining as critical practices shaped by Palestinian histories of representation, mediation, and displacement. Unlearning involves loosening familiar expectations of narrative progress, evidentiary clarity, and representational fulfilment. Reimagining follows from this pause, opening space for forms of attention shaped by repetition, mediation, and endurance, without forcing coherence or closure. Across Palestinian visual culture, this condition has been described as one in which visibility is compulsory and identity is repeatedly produced through recognizable visual and sonic forms.

We explore this framework through a screening of Kings and Extras (Azza El-Hassan, 2004). Moving across encounters, conversations, and mediated gestures shaped by displacement and exile, the film unfolds through over-rehearsed roles and recursive acts of filming and witnessing. Cinema emerges as a lived condition, structured by obligation, mediation, and survival. By holding time in suspension, the film reflects on what it means to exist inside an image world where memory, identity, and death are continuously mediated. 

The evening opens with an introduction to awhām magazine by İpek Erdöl and Quang Nguyen, followed by the screening and a conversation with Mudar Al-Kufash, moderated by Şirin Fulya Erensoy. 

In the second part of the evening Mbiriko will perform with his trio a set, where the deep rhythmic foundation of traditional Gnawa music will blend with modern instruments, hypnotic textures, and global influences. 

Documentary Synopsis:

Kings and Extras: Digging for a Palestinian Image (Azza El-Hassan, 2004) follows the filmmaker’s search for the missing PLO film archive, lost during the 1982 Israeli invasion of Beirut. Traveling across Palestine and the region, El-Hassan encounters rumors, dead ends, and memories rather than recovered footage. The film turns this failed search into a reflection on absence, historical erasure, and the struggle for Palestinian self-representation through images.

Artists:

İpek Erdöl (they/them) is a graphic designer working across arts and culture, education, and critical visual research, with a practice centered on typography, editorial, exhibition, and spatial design. In parallel, they work across online platforms and archival initiatives conceived as living archives that support collective research, knowledge production, and cultural exchange through collaborative networks and participatory forms of governance. Ipek is the art director of awhām magazine.

Quang Nguyen (he/him) is a German-Vietnamese graphic designer and a core team member of awhām magazine, active since 2024. Within awhām, he works in the design team, contributing to the magazine’s visual language with a focus on typography and image conception. His broader practice engages both practically and theoretically with the cultural politics of race, queerness, and class. He has initiated and moderated critical design discussion formats, including Design Stammtisch (Berlin), Design in Dialogue within the trade union ver.di, and Belle Room, a series exploring the (im)possibilities of critical design practices.

Şirin Fulya Erensoy is a film scholar, curator, and lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Groningen. Her work explores film as a tool for political expression and collective resistance, focusing on the intersections of documentary cinema, activism, and political aesthetics. She has curated screenings and organized conferences and panels on cinema’s role in social and political movements, drawing on feminist and ethnographic approaches to examine how moving images intervene in contexts of repression, displacement, and collective struggle.

Mudar Al-Khufash is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher aiming to merge art, activism, and pedagogy with his practice. His work explores implicit violence in infrastructures of coloniality, power, and heteronormativity. He is the founder and creative director of awāhm (@awham_magazine), an annual print magazine that archives and amplifies counter-normative epistemologies, providing platforms for dissenting queer and feminist thought. Through multimodal performances, he stages embodied critiques that blur the boundaries between art and political action, transforming spectators into collaborators. His practice is rooted in diasporic consciousness and guided by an ethics of refusal.He is currently pursuing a PhD in Media Studies at the University of Groningen, where his research investigates the formation of Palestinian masculinities, care, and intimacy as they emerge through settler-colonial violence. 

Mbiriko, who grew up with Gnawa music and has studied and performed with renowned masters. His former project, Gnawa Brothers, brought traditional rhythms to diverse stages across Europe. Over the past year, Mbiriko has performed at several notable festivals and toured internationally as singer and dancer. From Gnawa Brothers emerged a new energy: Gnawa Vibes. While rooted in the same deep rhythmic foundation of traditional Gnawa, the new project explores fresh sonic territories, blending ancestral grooves with modern instruments, hypnotic textures, and global influences. It’s the same spirit – but with a hotter, more electrifying pulse.

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