a'21: Ignorant Fairies: New Materialist Queer-Feminist Political Ecological Approaches_amberPlatform

►a'21: Ignorant Fairies: New Materialist Queer-Feminist Political Ecological Approaches_amberPlatform In this workshop, we will be studying selected new materialist texts and works of art regarding non-human life, nature and matter in this digital era which also intersects with Anthropocene discussion starting from the beginning of 2000s to better confront the growing 'uncertainty' 'unintelligibility' of non [...]

a'21: Decolonizing Knowledge and Ignorance # 1: Critical approach to decolonization of the Arts_Kounaktif

:: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / AR) :: Decolonizing Knowledge / Ignorance is beginning from the many, it's thinking in terms of networks, flows and intensities. It's relating to each other horizontally beyond any power / organizational structure. Abdeslam Ziou Ziou, researcher in arts, will tackle the subject from the prism of arts, by giving his approach to decolonization in the [...]

a'21: How can we decolonize Images and Aesthetics? _Kounaktif

►a'21: Decolonizing Knowledge and Ignorance # 2: How can we decolonize Images and Aesthetics? _Kounaktif How can we decolonize cinema, and how can we approach Oral Knowledge as a tool of resistance to colonialism. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / AR) :: Decolonizing Knowledge / Ignorance is beginning from the many, it's thinking in terms of networks, flows and intensities. It's [...]

a'21: Removing passive observers_Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley

► a'21: Removing passive observers :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN) :: This world rewards us when we just watch silently. The line between inaction and activism has grown smaller. We cant afford for people to passively watch on anymore. You actions have consequences. You lack of action has repercussions. Let's find out what they are. [...]

a'21: Decolonization of Epistemology_Kounaktif

► "a'21: Decolonizing Knowledge and Ignorance # 3: Decolonization of Epistemology_Kounaktif :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / AR / FR) :: Decolonizing Knowledge / Ignorance is beginning from the many, it's thinking in terms of networks, flows and intensities . It's relating to each other horizontally beyond any power / organizational structure. Seloua Luste Boulbina, philosopher, will speak about ways of decolonizing paradigms, and different ways [...]

a'21: Art-based research: new protocols in action_Relais Culture Europe

:: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / AR) :: Starting from the consideration that there are no precise boundaries delimiting what is art-based research, we would like to put into discussion such an emerging practice in the cultural field, by questioning it from the perspective of knowledge production as well as its link to education or generative practices. [...]

a'21: Knowing is an Illusion: Water Truth Egg_amberPlatform

The workshop focuses on the aesthetics of the cumulative nature of information that is unlearned and relearned in a holistic, experience-oriented, democratic and de-colonialist manner, in which the practice travels around the theory and the mainstream meanings attached are questioned. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / TR) :: Taking the birth and transmission of knowledge via digital [...]

a'21: Trouble Market _amberPlatform

►a'21: Trouble Market _amber Platform As part of the workshop, we focus on humanity's current troubles and make them marketable. Come on, start selling your troubles now! :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN) :: Many problems facing humanity today are actually the problems that companies and states (or power centers) generate to protect their economic or political [...]

a'21: A conversation about collective's role in İzmir_ Darağaç

►a'21: A conversation about collective's role in İzmir_ Darağaç Audience will have an insight information about the influence of collectives in the art scene of Izmir. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / TR) :: A conversation with Tom Keogh and Ali Kemal Ertem from Maquis Project in İzmir and Hande Bozbıyık about the roles of collectives in [...]

a'21: Breaking News_WAF & Deena Abdelwahed

► a'21: Breaking News_WAF & Deena Abdelwahed An audiovisual collaboration and video performance work. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / FR / AR) :: Let's think of this work as an object. An object without any (injunction) An object as a (proposition) Proposition et non pas une injonction. Des choses sans sens (avec une part d'insignifiant). Proposer la chose [...]

a'21: Sounds of Darağaç Launch Event

►a'21: Sounds of Darağaç Launch Event Audience will attend to a happening in the neighborhood. : ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / TR) :: Sounds of Darağaç project was brought to life with the collaboration of Darağaç Collective Istanbul and Amsterdam-based record company Lu Records and Izmir's subcultural music collective Apeiron. Sounds of Darağaç is an auditory memory [...]

a'21: Sounds of Darağaç

►a'21: Sounds of Darağaç Using sound to document a neighborhood and collaboration of collectives will be main topics in this conversation. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / TR) :: Sounds of Darağaç project was brought to life with the collaboration of Darağaç Collective Istanbul and Amsterdam-based record company Lu Records and Izmir's subcultural music collective Apeiron. Sounds [...]

a'21: Random Walks_amberPlatform

►a'21: Random Walks_amberPlatform :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / TR) :: There will be 4 podcasts which are 12 minutes length. Podcasts will be based on keywords created by the a'21 festival community, which will be based on an ongoing podcast named Random Walk by Bager Akbay and Tevfik Uyar. ► Click "going" on Facebook to stay [...]

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a'21: Sudan education curriculum_BAAB Collective

►a'21: Sudan education curriculum_BAAB Collective This event aims to understand the ongoing fight until now that took place in the social media, also the daily life. The debate about the education curriculum content after the change of past regime and the important question of the fight why the portrait of the Creation of Adam "Michael [...]

a'21: The Intermingled_BAAB Collective

The name of the exhibition is pointing over a huge success of the sit-in space during the Sudan revolution that people come together which never happened in the history of (what's call Sudan) and which shows a victory against the plan of colonialism and the post colonialism operation that's mean to suppress the unity of [...]

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a'21: Motavali 2 | Media Performances_New Media Society

►a'21: Motavali 2 | Media Performances_New Media Society :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / AR) :: Motavali 2 (Continuous in Persian) brings together performative positions across different disciplines: lecture performance to Multimedia Installations. Projects which are being made, being revised, or tested; while most of our interactions and urgent matters in life are happening “online”. It's inevitable [...]

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a'21: The new liberalism crises and the emergence of mediatised subjectivity_BAAB Collective

►a'21: The new liberalism crises and the emergence of mediatised subjectivity_BAAB Collective During in the last past decade Sudanese get harm by the US sanctions that affect the whole state and now we are shifting to neoliberal state supporting by US politics and come the question how the new system work and exactly when come [...]

a'21: How to build a world. (Storytelling in digital environments) _ADEF

►a'21: How to build a world. (Storytelling in digital environments) _ADEF The Arab Digital Expression Foundation (ADEF), through its core team and rich web of affiliates, creates and documents models of collaboration to design activities and projects which build on technology in order to develop self-expression, knowledge dissemination and production of thought. In its new iterations, [...]

a'21: Underground women_BAAB Collective

► a'21: Underground women_BAAB Collective This Exhibition is a discussion panel. This event explains how women suffer and gives information about the manipulation of the system to get the information about women health and sexuality and how that affect them by exposing them to the major risk behavior and conciseness and how this lead to [...]

a'21: Sudavision_BAAB Collective

► a'21: Sudavision_BAAB Collective This events aims to show how Sudanese men suffer to express gender equality and freedom of expression against class and race. It shows us who we are and presents our self to the other by using recycling materials. It is our way to point out claimant change in the global south. [...]

a'21: Alec Issigonis's Relief and Mural Performance_Darağaç

►a'21: Alec Issigonis's Relief and Mural Performance_Darağaç Audience will be able to see how a public artwork is being produced in the collective. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / TR) :: This is a live broadcasting event. Illustrator Suat İlyus wants to transform the outer facade of a building in the neighborhood. Artist Ali Kanal wants to place the [...]

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a'21: Becoming With Fungi_Mary Maggic

►a'21: Becoming With Fungi_Mary Maggic A bio art workshop with Mary Maggic. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / AR) :: Human industrial activity (petrochemical, agricultural, and pharmaceutical) has permanently altered the planet through the widespread presence of xenoestrogens, or endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs). Molecules such as BPA, phthalates, PCBs, dioxins, and synthetic hormones have hormone-mimicking and displacing [...]

a'21: Can wonders lead to other synergies? _amberPlatform

The workshop focuses on the aesthetics of the cumulative nature of information that is unlearned and relearned in a holistic, experience-oriented, democratic and de-colonialist manner, in which the practice travels around the theory and the mainstream meanings attached are questioned. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / TR) :: How can we shift from post-digital ignorance to post-digital [...]

a'21: Inaccessible Present 4.0 _New Media Society

►a'21: Inaccessible Present 4.0 _New Media Society Audience will be able to see how a public artwork is being produced in the collective. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / AR) :: The seemingly irreversible changes which have occurred since the emergence of the pandemic also manifest themselves via dramatic transformations: a highly polarized and stigmatised ONLINE version [...]

a'21: Threshold Infrastructures of Residual Spaces III Border Infrastructures and Forensics

►a'21: Threshold Infrastructures of Residual Spaces-III :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN) :: Forensic Architecture (FA) is a research agency, based at Goldsmiths, University of London, carrying out investigations with and on behalf of communities and individuals affected by conflict, police brutality, border regimes and environmental violence. In this workshop, FA researcher Stefanos Levidis wants to discuss [...]

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a'21: Absorbing Ignorance: Experiential Illusions_amberPlatform

►a'21: Absorbing Ignorance: Experiential Illusions_amberPlatform While chronologically reviewing the relationship of the moving image with the observer and the way cinematic editing manages mass perception as an art of creating reality, we will examine the concept of Immersion as the purpose of breaking away from existence. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / AR) :: But man is [...]

a'21: How Do I Know What I Know? _amberPlatform

►a'21: How Do I Know What I Know? _Amber Platform The workshop focuses on the aesthetics of the cumulative nature of information that is unlearned and relearned in a holistic, experience-oriented, democratic and de-colonialist manner, in which the practice travels around the theory and the mainstream meanings attached are questioned. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN) :: A [...]

a'21: Exchanges Through The Silk Road_DAHproject

► a'21: Exchanges Through The Silk Road_DAHproject :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / AR) :: Living in the Middle East region and some parts around it can feel as if you're being held in a euphoric state in a moment, just as it can feel as you're left floating in some kind of vacuum in another. the [...]

a'21: Bait15 and UAE art scene_DAHproject

► a'21: Bait15 and UAE art scene_DAHproject :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / AR) :: BAIT 15 is an artist-run studio and exhibition space located in a residential neighborhood of downtown Abu Dhabi founded in late 2017 by Afra Al Dhaheri , Hashel Al Lamki, and Maitha Abdalla. The villa housing BAIT includes; studios, one for each of [...]

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FRATZ Festival: TAH DAM! (2+)

Oyoun Lucy-Lameck-Strasse 32, Berlin

Music and dance performance by MusicDance Cape Town (South Africa) TAH DAM! is a music and dance performance for families and children. The partly traditional African, partly traditional European music is played on many interesting instruments: Mbira (from Zimbabwe), Djembe (from West Africa), Umtshingo (from South Africa), Adungu (from Uganda) and also a piano, rain sticks and singing are used . [...]

FRATZ Festival: Performing Arts for the Youngest in Hong Kong

Oyoun Lucy-Lameck-Strasse 32, Berlin

Live zoom talk and screening of HK5senses work with Gemini Wong Yuk Tak FRATZ Festival curator Marie Yan spent half a year in Hong Kong in 2021 for a theater project and during this time got to know the HK5Senses Theatre, which is dedicated to work for babies and dedicated to toddlers. As part of the FRATZ 2022 symposium, we want to [...]

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FRATZ Festival: TAH DAM! (2+)

Oyoun Lucy-Lameck-Strasse 32, Berlin

Music and dance performance by MusicDance Cape Town (South Africa) TAH DAM! is a music and dance performance for families and children. The partly traditional African, partly traditional European music is played on many interesting instruments: Mbira (from Zimbabwe), Djembe (from West Africa), Umtshingo (from South Africa), Adungu (from Uganda) and also a piano, rain sticks and singing are used . [...]

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FRATZ Festival: KOLOFU (2+)

Oyoun Lucy-Lameck-Strasse 32, Berlin

Performance by KiNiNso Koncepts (Nigeria) When it comes to people, colors often have judgmental and negative connotations. The global attributions based on skin colors such as black, white, red, yellow, ... are absurd, discriminatory and deprive us of the joy of the beauty of colors. The KOLOFU team did not want to accept this state of affairs and asked themselves: "Can [...]

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FRATZ Festival: KOLOFU (2+)

Oyoun Lucy-Lameck-Strasse 32, Berlin

Performance by KiNiNso Koncepts (Nigeria) When it comes to people, colors often have judgmental and negative connotations. The global attributions based on skin colors such as black, white, red, yellow, ... are absurd, discriminatory and deprive us of the joy of the beauty of colors. The KOLOFU team did not want to accept this state of affairs and asked themselves: "Can [...]