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a'21: From "The Zen of Pad.ma -The current situation", and how to work in it, together
2021-03-30 10:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Berlin)
:: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN) ::
The Zen of Pad.ma is a collection of lessons learned, and question encountered, in over a decade of collaborative archiving projects. They are concerned with the way in which digital technologies are always intertwined with their analogue surroundings, try to address some of the - technological, social and conceptual - pitfalls of online archiving, but also touch upon the nature of collaboration itself: how to work together, across distance, around or along with existing institutions.
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:: LINKS ::
►Jan Gerber, Sebastian Lütgert
Website

* This event is part of Oyoun's a’21 Festival - Post Digital Ignorance x Techno Utopia aiming to challenge the status quo while centring perspectives on non-human life, queer ecology, decolonising knowledge, forced displacement, and more.The project was financed by Berlin’s Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
Produced by: Oyoun in collaboration with amberPlatform
Curatorial Team: Amirali Ghasemi, Ali Cem Doğan, Cenkhan Aksoy, Christoph Wachter, Ebru Yetişkin, Ekmel Ertan, Hamza Chamas, Mathias Jud, Milad Forouzandeh, Mohsen Hazrat, Nina Martin, Rajaa Shamam, Youssef El Idrissi
Participants include: Eda Sütunç, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Mary Maggic, Rachel Uwa, Renata Salecl, Seloua Luste Boulbina, Pelin Tan, Yara Mekawei, and many more.
Funded by: Capital Cultural Fund
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a'21: Slap of the century__Shahraban
2021-03-28 12:00 - 14:00 UTC
► a'21: Slap of the century__Shahraban
This event is a panel discussion.
:: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/AR) ::
Shahraban is an open space for knowledge and experimentation includes a library and a Lab, based in “Boday” a small village in Baalbek, , its goal is to share knowledge to produce different knowledges, it is an alternative space for ideas to grow, and it is also a space for knowledge of traditions to continue. The other documentation is a talk about Shahraban, the importance of the project to the "relatively marginalised" village and its children, and the vision towards the environment and sustainable resources.
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:: LINKS ::
► Hamza Shamass
Instagram
Facebook
* This event is part of Oyoun's a’21 Festival - Post Digital Ignorance x Techno Utopia aiming to challenge the status quo while centring perspectives on non-human life, queer ecology, decolonising knowledge, forced displacement, and more.The project was financed by Berlin’s Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
Produced by: Oyoun in collaboration with amberPlatform
Curatorial Team: Amirali Ghasemi, Ali Cem Doğan, Cenkhan Aksoy, Christoph Wachter, Ebru Yetişkin, Ekmel Ertan, Hamza Chamas, Mathias Jud, Milad Forouzandeh, Mohsen Hazrat, Nina Martin, Rajaa Shamam, Youssef El Idrissi Participants include: Eda Sütunç, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Mary Maggic, Rachel Uwa, Renata Salecl, Seloua Luste Boulbina, Pelin Tan, Yara Mekawei, and many more.
Funded by: Capital Cultural Fund
www.oyoun.de @oyounberlin
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a'21: Breaking News_WAF & Deena Abdelwahed
2021-03-27 20:00 - 21:00 (Europe/Berlin)
► 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 et laisser libre cours à l’interprétation du sens de la chose.
Un drôle de truc en tension entre l’insignifiant et donner un sens.
Une invitation au voyage. Un détour oisif pour se re-trouver.
This work is a « flânerie/déambulation » dans les passages entre temps réel and réalité du temps.
As this work is under the influence of hazardous shadows on the measures of our dialogue with each other and with the self, it may still under construction even when you will encounter its first representation as an audio/video combination, that will be diffused online on a suitable date.
This work is for any person that knows already about what we want to say, and have to say, rather than just wanting a proof to believe in many things said and said, over and over since ages but NO ONE seems to care.
May-be, a glimpse of the vision of an idea about the automatisation of humanity through social media. A collaboration between Wafa Ben Romdhane aka WAF, and Deena Abdelwahed.
:: BIO ::
►WAF:
Queer Visual Artist, actually based in Tunisia after 10 years of living in Europe. Through the experience of exile, WAF built the skills of Video Jockey as a main passion and the experience of working with various artists and collectives. WAF’s visions & works are politically questioning old/new social norms/medias.
►Deena Abdelwahed:
Based in Toulouse, Tunisian Deena has made a name for herself as a singular electronic music producer and DJ. With her signature blend of bass music, techno, and vocals, her debut album Khonnar was named one of The Quietus' top records of 2018. Deena and French label InFiné followed up in 2020 with the Dhakar EP, praised by Resident Advisor for its “mesmerising club constructions” with details that “emphasize Abdelwahed's unwavering viewpoint, inextricable from the traditions – local or otherwise – she channels.”
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:: LINKS ::
►WAF
Instagram
Vimeo
► Deena Abdelwahed
Twitter
Instagram
Soundcloud
Facebook
* This event is part of Oyoun's a’21 Festival - Post Digital Ignorance x Techno Utopia aiming to challenge the status quo while centring perspectives on non-human life, queer ecology, decolonising knowledge, forced displacement, and more.The project was financed by Berlin’s Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
Produced by: Oyoun in collaboration with amberPlatform
Curatorial Team: Amirali Ghasemi, Ali Cem Doğan, Cenkhan Aksoy, Christoph Wachter, Ebru Yetişkin, Ekmel Ertan, Hamza Chamas, Mathias Jud, Milad Forouzandeh, Mohsen Hazrat, Nina Martin, Rajaa Shamam, Youssef El Idrissi
Participants include: Eda Sütunç, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Mary Maggic, Rachel Uwa, Renata Salecl, Seloua Luste Boulbina, Pelin Tan, Yara Mekawei, and many more.
Funded by: Capital Cultural Fund
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a'21: one to one sessions (30min)_Talk to CFW_Ouafa Belgacem
2021-03-27 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Berlin)
► a'21: one to one sessions 30min each - Talk to CFW
When:
27 March - 16:00-17:00 (two sessions)
03 April - 16:00-17:00 (two sessions)
04 April - 16:00-17:00 (two sessions)

:: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN) ::
CFW CEO, Ouafa Belgacem will be holding 6 one to 6 session to offer a guidance a counselling session for selected applicants.
Application to book those session are to be made by email to info@culturefundingwatch.com
:: BIO ::
Ouafa is an expert in cultural and creative projects fundraising. She is also a researcher interested in topics related with arts and culture financing and cultural policies in the MENA and Africa Regions. She is the founder of Culture Funding Watch a leading enterprise dedicated to capacity building and intelligence gathering and monitoring art and culture financial support and to support of Art and Creative enterprises in the MENA and Africa. Culture Funding Watch’s online opportunity database focusing on Arts and Culture opportunities is unique in the region.
Ouafa has also been assigned as international expert to evaluate projects proposals submitted for funding to the UNESCO's International Fund for Cultural Diversity (2012-2016) as well as for European funded programme in Tunisia Tfanen-Tunisie Créative.
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27 March - 16:00-17:00 (two sessions)
03 April - 16:00-17:00 (two sessions)
04 April - 16:00-17:00 (two sessions)
:: LINKS::
►Ouafa Belgacem
* This event is part of Oyoun's a’21 Festival - Post Digital Ignorance x Techno Utopia aiming to challenge the status quo while centering perspectives on non-human life, queer ecology, decolonising knowledge, forced displacement, and more.The project was financed by Berlin’s Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
Produced by: Oyoun in collaboration with amberPlatform
Curatorial Team: Amirali Ghasemi, Ali Cem Doğan, Cenkhan Aksoy, Christoph Wachter, Ebru Yetişkin, Ekmel Ertan, Hamza Chamas, Mathias Jud, Milad Forouzandeh, Mohsen Hazrat, Nina Martin, Rajaa Shamam, Youssef El Idrissi
Participants include: Eda Sütunç, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Mary Maggic, Rachel Uwa, Renata Salecl, Seloua Luste Boulbina, Pelin Tan, Yara Mekawei, and many more.
Funded by: Capital Cultural Fund
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a'21: Queer Feminist Interventions in Filling Open Resource Gaps: Wiki Edit-a-thon_amberPlatform
2021-03-27 09:00 - 12:00 UTC
►a'21: Queer Feminist Interventions in Filling Open Resource Gaps: Wiki Edit-a-thon_amberPlatform
For this event we are focusing on artistic practices that revision existing mythologies and by unraveling these dominating narratives re-tell them from a queer/feminist perspective.
:: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/AR) ::
Wikimedia Community User Group Turkey (WMTR) and Amber Platform will host an online event Art+Feminism edit-a-thon. Edit-a-thon will allow us to create content on feminist/queer visual artists from around the world to be accessable in Turkish language, increasing the visibility and recognition of their practices. For this event we are focusing on artistic practices that revision existing mythologies and by unraveling these dominating narratives re-tell them from a queer/feminist perspective.Wikimedia Community User Group Program Turkey will do a presentation for 40 minutes of Wikipedia's five cornerstone philosophies, verifiability and registration process will be described in the valence concepts. A study will be conducted with an English-speaking group for artists who have titles in English but who lac k a content in Turkish. An archive and resource creation work will be carried out in connection with Turkish artists who do not have a title with participants who do not speak English. There will be a proposed list of artists, but participants will have the freedom to create content about the artists they want.
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:: LINKS ::
►Eda Sütünc
Website
Instagram
►Başak Tosun
►Neslihan Turan
►Yağmur Yıldırım
Instagram
Facebook
►Zafer Batık
Facebook
* This event is part of Oyoun's a’21 Festival - Post Digital Ignorance x Techno Utopia aiming to challenge the status quo while centering perspectives on non-human life, queer ecology, decolonising knowledge, forced displacement, and more.The project was financed by Berlin’s Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
Produced by: Oyoun in collaboration with amberPlatform
Curatorial Team: Amirali Ghasemi, Ali Cem Doğan, Cenkhan Aksoy, Christoph Wachter, Ebru Yetişkin, Ekmel Ertan, Hamza Chamas, Mathias Jud, Milad Forouzandeh, Mohsen Hazrat, Nina Martin, Rajaa Shamam, Youssef El Idrissi Participants include: Eda Sütunç, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Mary Maggic, Rachel Uwa, Renata Salecl, Seloua Luste Boulbina, Pelin Tan, Yara Mekawei, and many more.
Funded by: Capital Cultural Fund
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a'21: A conversation about collective's role in İzmir_ Darağaç
2021-03-26 18:00 - 20:00 UTC
►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 İzmir. How collectives affect the city? Is it possible to redefine these neighborhoods as reconciliation zones ? Tom Keogh and Ali Kemal Ertem will share their journey of Maquis Projects (İzmir) and Hande Bozbıyık will share her personal story on how her path crossed with the collectives of İzmir.
Hande Bozbıyık ve Maquis Project’ten Tom Keogh ve Ali Kemal Ertem ile İzmir’de kolektiflerin etkisi üzerine bir sohbet. Kolektifler İzmir’de kolektifler ne kadar etkili ? Kolektiflerin bulunduğu mahalleleri bir uzlaşma alanı olarak yeniden tanımlamak mümkün mü? Tom Keogh ve Ali Kemal Ertem Maquis Project’in öyküsünü ve Hande Bozbıyık nasıl kendi hayatıyla bu kolektiflerin kesiştiğini anlatacak.
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:: LINKS ::
► Ali Cem Doğan
Instagram
Facebook
Website
► Ali Kemal Ertem
Instagram
Facebook
►Tom Keogh
Facebook
►Hande Bozbıyık
Instagram
Facebook
* This event is part of Oyoun's a’21 Festival - Post Digital Ignorance x Techno Utopia aiming to challenge the status quo while centring perspectives on non-human life, queer ecology, decolonising knowledge, forced displacement, and more.The project was financed by Berlin’s Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
Produced by: Oyoun in collaboration with amberPlatform
Curatorial Team: Amirali Ghasemi, Ali Cem Doğan, Cenkhan Aksoy, Christoph Wachter, Ebru Yetişkin, Ekmel Ertan, Hamza Chamas, Mathias Jud, Milad Forouzandeh, Mohsen Hazrat, Nina Martin, Rajaa Shamam, Youssef El Idrissi Participants include: Eda Sütunç, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Mary Maggic, Rachel Uwa, Renata Salecl, Seloua Luste Boulbina, Pelin Tan, Yara Mekawei, and many more.
Funded by: Capital Cultural Fund
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a'21: Trouble Market _amberPlatform
2021-03-24 13:00 - 15:00 UTC
►a'21: Trouble Market _amberPlatform
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 centres) generate to protect their economic or political systems, beyond human activities. In the face of this power, many people have somehow acknowledged the problems and lost their belief that things could change, rather than focusing on the problems that they had to focus on, and even let go of those problems. TROUBLE MARKET is a speculative design fiction to draw attention to the troubles of the local society to which people belong; that tries to commodify troubles and sell them with the help of a website, exactly as the system fictionalises. Using the methods the system uses to get people's attention, it invites them to face the troubles they are trying to escape from.
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:: LINKS::
►Oğuz Emre Bal,
Website
Instagram
►Eti Kastoryano
Instagram
Website
* This event is part of Oyoun's a’21 Festival - Post Digital Ignorance x Techno Utopia aiming to challenge the status quo while centring perspectives on non-human life, queer ecology, decolonising knowledge, forced displacement, and more.The project was financed by Berlin’s Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
Produced by: Oyoun in collaboration with amberPlatform
Curatorial Team: Amirali Ghasemi, Ali Cem Doğan, Cenkhan Aksoy, Christoph Wachter, Ebru Yetişkin, Ekmel Ertan, Hamza Chamas, Mathias Jud, Milad Forouzandeh, Mohsen Hazrat, Nina Martin, Rajaa Shamam, Youssef El Idrissi Participants include: Eda Sütunç, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Mary Maggic, Rachel Uwa, Renata Salecl, Seloua Luste Boulbina, Pelin Tan, Yara Mekawei, and many more.
Funded by: Capital Cultural Fund
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a'21: Knowing is an Illusion: Water Truth Egg_amberPlatform
2021-03-23 16:00 - 18:00 UTC
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 platforms as its base, 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. As a counter-discourse to the potentially alienating power of digital information flow from the objective reality (or facts), this unlearn and relearn practice offers a concentration on the question ‘is it really like this, or do I perceive this way?’ in our post-truth society enhanced by the digital culture. This questioning happens in the liminal space between the duality of perception and fact.
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:: LINKS ::
► Ozan Atalan
Website
Instagram
Facebook
* This event is part of Oyoun's a’21 Festival - Post Digital Ignorance x Techno Utopia aiming to challenge the status quo while centring perspectives on non-human life, queer ecology, decolonising knowledge, forced displacement, and more.The project was financed by Berlin’s Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
Produced by: Oyoun in collaboration with amberPlatform
Curatorial Team: Amirali Ghasemi, Ali Cem Doğan, Cenkhan Aksoy, Christoph Wachter, Ebru Yetişkin, Ekmel Ertan, Hamza Chamas, Mathias Jud, Milad Forouzandeh, Mohsen Hazrat, Nina Martin, Rajaa Shamam, Youssef El Idrissi Participants include: Eda Sütunç, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Mary Maggic, Rachel Uwa, Renata Salecl, Seloua Luste Boulbina, Pelin Tan, Yara Mekawei, and many more. Funded by: Capital Cultural Fund
www.oyoun.de @oyounberlin
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a'21: Art-based research: new protocols in action_Relais Culture Europe
2021-03-23 10:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Berlin)
:: 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.
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:: LINKS ::
►Pascal Brunet (Relais Culture Europe)
►Sarah Nankivell (Forensic Architecture)
►Frédéric Nauczyciel

* This event is part of Oyoun's a’21 Festival - Post Digital Ignorance x Techno Utopia aiming to challenge the status quo while centering perspectives on non-human life, queer ecology, decolonising knowledge, forced displacement, and more.The project was financed by Berlin’s Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
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Produced by: Oyoun in collaboration with amberPlatform
Curatorial Team: Amirali Ghasemi, Ali Cem Doğan, Cenkhan Aksoy, Christoph Wachter, Ebru Yetişkin, Ekmel Ertan, Hamza Chamas, Mathias Jud, Milad Forouzandeh, Mohsen Hazrat, Nina Martin, Rajaa Shamam, Youssef El Idrissi
Participants include: Eda Sütunç, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Mary Maggic, Rachel Uwa, Renata Salecl, Seloua Luste Boulbina, Pelin Tan, Yara Mekawei, and many more.
Funded by: Capital Cultural Fund
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a'21: Resources Mobilisation for Festivals what COVID has changed in the process_Ouafa Belgacem
2021-03-23 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | Online
:: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN) ::
The Workshop will be in the form of a conversation with the attendees sharing experiences and analysing trends and perspectives. The impact of digitalisation and the Emergency response mechanisms adopted by funders and stakeholders will be the main focus of the discussion.
:: BIO ::
Ouafa is an expert in cultural and creative projects fundraising. She is also a researcher interested in topics related with arts and culture financing and cultural policies in the MENA and Africa Regions. She is the founder of Culture Funding Watch a leading enterprise dedicated to capacity building and intelligence gathering and monitoring art and culture financial support and to support of Art and Creative enterprises in the MENA and Africa. Culture Funding Watch’s online opportunity database focusing on Arts and Culture opportunities is unique in the region. Ouafa has also been assigned as international expert to evaluate projects proposals submitted for funding to the UNESCO's International Fund for Cultural Diversity (2012-2016) as well as for European funded programme in Tunisia Tfanen-Tunisie Créative.
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* This event is part of Oyoun's a’21 Festival - Post Digital Ignorance x Techno Utopia aiming to challenge the status quo while centring perspectives on non-human life, queer ecology, decolonising knowledge, forced displacement, and more.The project was financed by Berlin’s Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
Produced by: Oyoun in collaboration with amberPlatform
Curatorial Team: Amirali Ghasemi, Ali Cem Doğan, Cenkhan Aksoy, Christoph Wachter, Ebru Yetişkin, Ekmel Ertan, Hamza Chamas, Mathias Jud, Milad Forouzandeh, Mohsen Hazrat, Nina Martin, Rajaa Shamam, Youssef El Idrissi Participants include: Eda Sütunç, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Mary Maggic, Rachel Uwa, Renata Salecl, Seloua Luste Boulbina, Pelin Tan, Yara Mekawei, and many more.
Funded by: Capital Cultural Fund
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a'21: Sustainability and Resource Mobilisation_Ouafa Belgacem
2021-03-22 10:00 - 12:00 UTC
► a'21: Sustainability and Resource Mobilisation
:: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/AR) ::
The workshop will introduce participants to the notion of sustainability vs fundraising. The speaker will share with the attendees basics of sustainable resources mobilisation strategy.
:: BIO ::
Ouafa is an expert in cultural and creative projects fundraising. She is also a researcher interested in topics related with arts and culture financing and cultural policies in the MENA and Africa Regions. She is the founder of Culture Funding Watch a leading enterprise dedicated to capacity building and intelligence gathering and monitoring art and culture financial support and to support of Art and Creative enterprises in the MENA and Africa. Culture Funding Watch’s online opportunity database focusing on Arts and Culture opportunities is unique in the region. Ouafa has aslo been assigned as international expert to evaluate projects proposals submitted for funding to the UNESCO's International Fund for Cultural Diversity (2012-2016) as well as for European funded programme in Tunisia Tfanen-Tunisie Créative.
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#CFW #RM #Sustainability #Workshop
* This event is part of Oyoun's a’21 Festival - Post Digital Ignorance x Techno Utopia aiming to challenge the status quo while centering perspectives on non-human life, queer ecology, decolonising knowledge, forced displacement, and more.
The project was financed by Berlin’s Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
► See updating festival program on https://ambernetworkfestival.org/
Produced by: Oyoun in collaboration with amberPlatform Curatorial Team: Amirali Ghasemi, Ali Cem Doğan, Cenkhan Aksoy, Christoph Wachter, Ebru Yetişkin, Ekmel Ertan, Hamza Chamas, Mathias Jud, Milad Forouzandeh, Mohsen Hazrat, Nina Martin, Rajaa Shamam, Youssef El Idrissi Participants include: Eda Sütunç, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Mary Maggic, Rachel Uwa, Renata Salecl, Seloua Luste Boulbina, Pelin Tan, Yara Mekawei, and many more.
Funded by: Capital Cultural Fund
www.oyoun.de @oyounberlin
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a'21: Engagement with the neighborhood through art and design_ Darağaç
2021-03-21 16:30 - 18:30 UTC
►a'21: Engagement with the neighbourhood through art and design_ Darağaç
Audience will have information on alternative exhibition methods and how one can implement virtual reality to re-define a space.
:: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/TR) ::
A conversation with Güzden Varinlioğlu and Emre Yıldız about the transformation of a neighbourhood with the engagement of art and design, co-existing in virtual space and re-defining the environment as an alternative exhibition space. Güzden Varinlioğlu will share her experience on Darağaç VR and future projects. Emre Yıldız will share his experience on the sign workshop in Darağaç. ------------- Güzden Varinlioğlu ve Emre Yıldız sanat ve tasarım ile mahallenin değişimi. bir sergileme methodu olarak fiziksel ve sanal mecralarda varoluş ve mahalledeki yakın geçmişteki deneyimleri ve teknoloji ile gelişen dünya üzerine bir sohbet. Geçtiğimiz yıllarda gerçekleştirilen Darağaç VR projesi hakkında Güzden Varinlioğlu ve Darağaç tabela atölyesinden Emre Yıldız tecrübelerini paylaşacak.
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: LINKS ::
► Ali Cem Doğan @alicemdogan facebook.com/AliCemDogan, cargocollective.com/alicemdogan
► Güzden Varinlioğlu facebook.com/guzdenv @guzdenv
►Emre Yıldız @yukarga facebook.com/yukarga
#VirtualReality
* This event is part of Oyoun's a’21 Festival - Post Digital Ignorance x Techno Utopia aiming to challenge the status quo while centring perspectives on non-human life, queer ecology, decolonising knowledge, forced displacement, and more.The project was financed by Berlin’s Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
► See updating festival program on https://ambernetworkfestival.org/
Produced by: Oyoun in collaboration with amberPlatform
Curatorial Team: Amirali Ghasemi, Ali Cem Doğan, Cenkhan Aksoy, Christoph Wachter, Ebru Yetişkin, Ekmel Ertan, Hamza Chamas, Mathias Jud, Milad Forouzandeh, Mohsen Hazrat, Nina Martin, Rajaa Shamam, Youssef El Idrissi Participants include: Eda Sütunç, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Mary Maggic, Rachel Uwa, Renata Salecl, Seloua Luste Boulbina, Pelin Tan, Yara Mekawei, and many more.
Funded by: Capital Cultural Fund
www.oyoun.de @oyounberlin
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a'21: Decolonising Imaginaries : Inve[r]/[n]ting paradigms_Kounaktif
2021-03-21 15:00 - 17:00 UTC
►a'21: Decolonizing Imaginaries : Inve[r]/[n]ting paradigms_Kounaktif
:: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/AR) ::
Post-digital Ignorance in our region may refer to our ignorance of our roots, pre-colonial values, mythologies and imaginaries. This category of Ignorance is very visible in the mainstream art field where we try to duplicate the model found in the West. Our galleries, concepts of art and inspirations are mostly western because the whole ecosystem is built to sell, and please sellers who are mostly from the western world or are hugely influenced by the latter, which can distort the creativity and authenticity of our art world.
In the global post-digital era, a lot of underground artists exist and resist, and find their inspiration in their futuristic roots, and they deconstruct the dominant aesthetics by investing the glitch, the distorted and the error.
Language : Moroccan Darija mixed with English (translation will come later in subtitles)
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:: LINKS ::
► Kounaktif
Instagram
Facebook
► Younes El Hossaini, Badr Houary, Elodie Lanard
Instagram
► Simo Mansouri
Instagram
Facebook
Soundcloud
► Abdessamad Baddis
Instagram
► Youssef El Idrissi
Instagram
Facebook
Website
► Fatine Arafati, Kawtar Benlakhdar, Abir Guasmi, Salma Kossemini, Constance Léon, Youssef El Idrissi
* This event is part of Oyoun's a’21 Festival - Post Digital Ignorance x Techno Utopia aiming to challenge the status quo while centring perspectives on non-human life, queer ecology, decolonising knowledge, forced displacement, and more.The project was financed by Berlin’s Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
Produced by: Oyoun in collaboration with amberPlatform
Curatorial Team: Amirali Ghasemi, Ali Cem Doğan, Cenkhan Aksoy, Christoph Wachter, Ebru Yetişkin, Ekmel Ertan, Hamza Chamas, Mathias Jud, Milad Forouzandeh, Mohsen Hazrat, Nina Martin, Rajaa Shamam, Youssef El Idrissi Participants include: Eda Sütunç, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Mary Maggic, Rachel Uwa, Renata Salecl, Seloua Luste Boulbina, Pelin Tan, Yara Mekawei, and many more.
Funded by: Capital Cultural Fund
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a'21: MidEast Tunes w/ İpek İpekçioğlu
2021-03-20 20:00 - 22:00 (Europe/Berlin)
►a'21: MidEast Tunes w/ İpek İpekçioğlu
:: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/AR) ::
Explore and enjoy the tunes of İpek İpekçioğlu who will be preparing a special set merging traditional and electronic sounds.
Based between Berlin and Istanbul, queer-living DJ, producer and curator, İpek İpekçioğlu has an established reputation across nightlife scenes worldwide. She has performed her music at the Glastonburry, Fusion, Sziget, At.tension, Berlin Festival and many more international electronic and world music festivals. Ipek has been creating a buzz amongst international crowds from New York City to the desert Sahara of Mali, developing an exclusive brand name with her unique & hybrid Soundmix and she regarded is one of the most popular DJ of the Berlin club scene and internationally as known as Queen of Eklektik BerlinIstan. In her musical spectrum, psychedelic turkish funk meets disco, balkanfolk to minimal, Anatolian folk to deep house, kurdish halay to electro, turkish tango to break beat, bhangra to moombahton, dabke to reaggaton, albanian folk to twerk, iranian bandari to techno.
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* This event is part of Oyoun's a’21 Festival - Post Digital Ignorance x Techno Utopia aiming to challenge the status quo while centering perspectives on non-human life, queer ecology, decolonising knowledge, forced displacement, and more.The project was financed by Berlin’s Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
Produced by: Oyoun in collaboration with amberPlatform
Curatorial Team: Amirali Ghasemi, Ali Cem Doğan, Cenkhan Aksoy, Christoph Wachter, Ebru Yetişkin, Ekmel Ertan, Hamza Chamas, Mathias Jud, Milad Forouzandeh, Mohsen Hazrat, Nina Martin, Rajaa Shamam, Youssef El Idrissi
Participants include: Eda Sütunç, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Mary Maggic, Rachel Uwa, Renata Salecl, Seloua Luste Boulbina, Pelin Tan, Yara Mekawei, and many more.
Funded by: Capital Cultural Fund
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a'21: Decolonising Knowledge and Ignorance #4: Intersectional approach to decolonisation and Arts_Kounaktif
2021-03-20 15:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Berlin)
►a'21: Decolonising Knowledge and Ignorance #4: Intersectional approach to decolonisation and 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. Lamyaâ Achary, researcher in sociology, will present their approach to the question of decolonization of arts through an intersectional prism.
Language : Moroccan Darija mixed with English (translation will come later in subtitles)
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* This event is part of Oyoun's a’21 Festival - Post Digital Ignorance x Techno Utopia aiming to challenge the status quo while centring perspectives on non-human life, queer ecology, decolonising knowledge, forced displacement, and more.The project was financed by Berlin’s Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
Produced by: Oyoun in collaboration with amberPlatform
Curatorial Team: Amirali Ghasemi, Ali Cem Doğan, Cenkhan Aksoy, Christoph Wachter, Ebru Yetişkin, Ekmel Ertan, Hamza Chamas, Mathias Jud, Milad Forouzandeh, Mohsen Hazrat, Nina Martin, Rajaa Shamam, Youssef El Idrissi
Participants include: Eda Sütunç, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Mary Maggic, Rachel Uwa, Renata Salecl, Seloua Luste Boulbina, Pelin Tan, Yara Mekawei, and many more.
Funded by: Capital Cultural Fund

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a'21: online VR Storytellers and Hackathon
2021-03-20 12:00 - 14:00 UTC | Oyoun, Lucy-Lameck-Staße 32, Berlin, 12049, Deutschland
► a'21: online VR workshops and hackathon
(Schedule below)
“Urban spaces and places transform the way we explain the world to ourselves and others and define the way we see ourselves; provide the necessary infrastructure to transform the way we see our bodies and genders globally.” (Jerram, 2011)
:: ABOUT THIS EVENT ::
Amber Network Festival hosts an international online VR workshop and hackathon. V’R’ Storytellers invites artists, urbanists, designers, coders, 3D artists, photographers and other professionals to generate creative stories for a virtual exhibition in Umurbey Neighbourhood (Izmir/Turkey) hosted by Darağaç Collective. Regardless of its location on the map, this district particularly reminds us of many common problems which are discussed throughout the world.
The V’R’ Storytellers revolves around a series of hands-on workshops where artists and participants can share their projects and insights, and concludes with a 3-day hackathon.
During the hackathon, participants will be invited to utilize VR and develop artistic experiences to the theme: boundaries of urban transformation/gentrification/renewal and refugee/immigrant/guest/neighbor. These concepts support the scope of the festival's theme of Post-Digital Ignorance and the urban texture. Interested participants will be encouraged to utilise the Umurbey Neighbourhood/Daragac as a canvas for their work though it is not a requirement.
No previous experience is required. Women, POC, LGBTQ+ and others under-represented in the tech world are highly encouraged to apply.
►Who can participate? This event is open to artists, designers, coders, digital artists, photographers and people from other creative fields. amberNetworkFestival will assure the streaming of the different workshops on a’21 Video Conference Server link to the participants and will prepare an email group for each team. The Compilation of projects will be presented on a’21 Video Conference ServerSun.
Application procedure: The deadline for applications is Friday, March 12 // 150 words motivation letter for "Amber’21 online VR workshop and hackathon" via email VR@ambernetworkfestival.org
About Daragac İzmir: The Darağaç Collective (DC) is a creative collaboration between a group of artists who live and practice art in the Umurbey Neighborhood in Izmir, Turkey, and members of the local community. Umurbey is located close to the southeastern shore of Izmir Bay, a mainly industrial and commercial zone which is popularly known as Darağaç. The neighborhood has a diverse character with industrial buildings, abandoned factories, warehouses and houses, mainly two-story, some of which date back to the late 19th and the early 20th century. In the last few years, Darağaç has received considerable media and scholarly interest both for the contemporary art exhibitions organised by the DC and the active contribution of the local community in both hosting and participating in these exhibitions. The main goal of DC is to transform the neighbourhood into a space where young artists can show their work and to create a common discourse. Darağaç, due to the lack of venues in Izmir, acts as a reconciliation zone for the emerging artist and the public space. More information: https://www.daragac.com/en/about/
About a’21 amberNetworkFestival Art Technology Thought March - May 2021 a’21 is produced by Oyoun (Berlin) in collaboration with amberPlatform (İstanbul) // a’21 amberNetworkFestival will take place between the 10th of March and 18th of May 2021 at Oyoun in Berlin and in the network nodes amberPlatform (İstanbul), Darağaç (Izmir), New Media society (Tehran), DAH Project (Shiraz), KounAktif (Casablanca), BAAB (Khartoum), Shahraban (Baalbek), Bishkek Contemporary (Bishkek) and ADEF (Cairo, Berlin) currently. All the activities will be hybrid; in various locations and online at the same time. a’21 is taking place in a very special time as a truly decentralised and international festival. We are developing the Collaborative (Network) Curation where the network members and invited artists are curating, creating, and performing collaboratively remotely along the two-month-long festival. More information: www.ambernetworkfestival.org/ 30 participants
::PROGRAMMING: WORKSHOP & HACKATHON::
● Say Hello! Day-1: Saturday, March 20 (12:00-14:00 CET) Artists and participants share their intentions and projects (if there is already).
● Open Room (Weekly Get-togethers) Open rooms for an-hour and on-demand meetings with artists Accompanied by artists as mentors who are available. Free hours to provide chit chat among the participants. Day-2: March 25 (16:00-17:00 CET) Day-3: April 1 (16:00-17:00 CET) Day-4: April 8 (16:00-17:00 CET)
● VR Talks Speakers will talk about their case studies/artworks/research areas etc. Day-5: April 5 (16:00-17:30 CET) Digital Darağaç Day-6: April 6 (16:00-17:30 CET) Soheila Golestani Day-7: April 7 (16:00-17:30 CET) Selim Harbi Day-8: April 8 (16:00-17:30 CET) Mohsen Hazrati Day-9: April 9 (16:00-17:30 CET) Rachel Uwa
● HACKATHON Day-10: Friday, April 16 (12:00 - 13:00 CET) | online & offline Day-11: Saturday, April 17 | offline Day-12: Sunday, April 18 (15:00 - 17:00 CET) | online & offline Compilation of projects
VR TALKS 1. Digital Daragac Monday, 5 April, 16:00-17:30
Talk by Guzden Varinlioglu
Description: We have been witnessing a period in which artworks transfer from galleries and museums into spaces of daily life and architecture becomes an artwork. As an alternative to institutional spaces of museum and gallery, artists are forming art collectives by settling at low-income neighbourhoods. On the contrary to the conventional, introverted spaces designed to function particularly for exhibition, these collectives, without an official and institutional substructure, signify a hybrid, temporary, mobile and functionally blurred concept of “art-space”. In this framework, a case study is conducted on Darağaç Collective which live and produce at Umurbey Neighbourhood. The concept of art-space is compared with other art collectives in Turkey by means of group and individual interviews, participant observations, and archival research. This research examines this alternative art collective which has turned the neighborhood into an art-space. There is no museum / virtual museum in Izmir to house works of the artists. Therefore, artists initiated independent art collectives. DARAĞAÇ artworks are produced and exhibited in uncontrolled environment of the streets of Alsancak Umurbey Neighbourhood. Using these artworks as a case study, this research intends to design and implement an augmented reality that works in public spaces where there is uncontrolled light, sound and human traffic.
Bio: Through the course of Guzden Varinlioglu's undergraduate education in architecture at METU and her graduate education in graphic design at Bilkent University, she became interested in digital technology and its contribution to the preservation and presentation of cultural heritage. Her research period at TAMU in 2010 was followed by a Ph.D. degree from the Program of Art, Design, and Architecture at Bilkent University. In 2011, Guzden received a post-doc position in architectural design computing at ITU, and, in 2013-2014, as a visiting scholar, conducted further research at the Centre of Digital Humanities at UCLA. She is currently serving as Associate Professor of Architecture at the IEU, where she specialises in computational design. At the İzmir University of Economics, she initiated the digital fabrication team (EcoFAB), VRlab and Digital Humanities Lab.
VR TALKS 2. Storytelling in 360 degree Tuesday, April 6, 16:00-17:30
Talk by Soheila Golestani
Description: I will be talking about Storytelling in 360 degrees, while presenting some examples of my works and the way I developed the ideas, translating them into VR films The presentation will include subjects like the structural difference of storytelling & narration in VR space and was experienced before its emergence, and the way we can train our mind to be able to transform our ideas for a 360 degree imagination. In the 2nd part of the talk we will go through the ideas of the participants and how to develop them toward a 360 experience. It is strongly recommended that the participants submit a sketch of what they want to create and a bit of background on their practice and focus.
Bio: Soheila Golestani is a filmmaker and actress based in Tehran, She is a graduate in theater from the theater& cinema faculty of the Art University Tehran and ever since cinema has been her main focus, in 2016 she made “if you go away” the first fiction VR film in Iran which won the best VR film award at Tampre film festival in Finland. She has made Vr documentaries and animation-based projects in 360 degree for theater.
VR TALKS 3. VR, anthropology of tomorrow, connecting narratives and the birth of new archives Wednesday, April 7, 16:00-17:30
Talk by Selim Harbi
Description: Based on my latest VR Project: Afroroutes, I will be addressing the issue of rebuilding the dispatched, forgotten and disfigured narratives , and how VR could be a game changer, reconnecting invisible stories. Also through the process how VR is the anthropology tool of the future par excellence, expanding to the vital issue of new-archive creation.
Bio: Transmedia storyteller & journalist, award-winning director, TEDx Speaker, and World Press Photo grantee. He holds a Bachelor of Art in screen-based and Audiovisual Media from Beuth University of applied sciences - Berlin. He was the director assistant of THE ENEMY , one of the very first VR Projects ever. As a beauty hunter, world connector & passionate traveler, He loves to redefine things, focused on contemporary global affairs, human-driven stories, mobilities issues, and cultural sub- narratives. With a special flair for tech-trends and innovation, He is designing with new media tools cutting-edge projects, always looking for impact and new challenges.
VR TALKS 4. VR/AR Talk, DAHProject Thursday, April 11, 15:00-17:30
Talk by Mohsen Hazrati
Description: Today, Creation with digital tools is not completely restricted to be a professional in using these technologies like before, and every day a new tool with a different level of possibility comes to the market to facilitate the creation process, So a wider range of Ideas could come alive, in the workshop, we will talk about how VR and AR could break the boundaries, open new windows of imagination for artists in any medium and make art creation and curating more accessible.
Bio: Mohsen Hazrati was born in 1987 in Shiraz, Iran. He graduated with a BA in graphic design from Shiraz Art Institute of Higher Education in 2012, minoring in new media and digital art. His works focus on digital culture, new-aesthetic and the integration of these two issues into the Shirazi culture and Iranian mystical literature, and have been exhibited in Transfer and Babycastles Gallery - New York, Telematic Media Arts - San Francisco, V-Gallery Tehran, ESPRONCEDA Institute of Art & Culture - Barcelona etc.
VR TALKS 5. Designing experiences: Considerations for analog and virtual worlds Friday, April 9 16:00-17:30
Talk by Rachel Uwa
Description: When we talk about virtual and augmented realities most often the discussions begin with defining the tools. However, there is much value in stepping back even further and asking ourselves: how do we define an experience? In this talk, I will discuss and share examples around what it means to design an experience with emphasis on how we can connect humans to each other and to themselves more deeply through use of real and virtual spaces.
Bio: Rachel is an artist and organiser whose background is in audio engineering and vfx compositing. She is the founder of School of Machines, Making & Make Believe, a uniquely curated School born in Berlin, Germany in 2014, keen on inventing one-of-a-kind hands-on learning experiences in the field of Art, Technology, Design, and human connection.
* This event is part of Oyoun's a’21 Festival - Post Digital Ignorance x Techno Utopia aiming to challenge the status quo while centring perspectives on non-human life, queer ecology, decolonising knowledge, forced displacement, and more
The project was financed by Berlin’s Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
► See updating festival program on https://ambernetworkfestival.org/
Produced by: Oyoun in collaboration with amberPlatform
Curatorial Team: Amirali Ghasemi, Ali Cem Doğan, Cenkhan Aksoy, Christoph Wachter, Ebru Yetişkin, Ekmel Ertan, Hamza Chamas, Mathias Jud, Milad Forouzandeh, Mohsen Hazrat, Nina Martin, Rajaa Shamam, Youssef El Idrissi Participants include: Eda Sütunç, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Mary Maggic, Rachel Uwa, Renata Salecl, Seloua Luste Boulbina, Pelin Tan, Yara Mekawei, and many more.
Funded by: Capital Cultural Fund
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a'21: Dust to Come_New Media Society/ Parking Video Library
2021-03-19 17:00 - 20:00 UTC
►a'21: Dust to Come_New Media Society/ Parking Video Library
:: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/AR) ::
Dust to come is a re-screening of a former online program at New Media Projects which will take place both online/offline in our space and via our website. Was it ever our future? “The Removed Agency” got me by surprise when I received the invitation to contribute to the Future Threads Program. A teenage sci-fi fan, who never watched Star Trek or Star Wars, I asked around from my artist, cinephile and writer friends, and in our conversations led to some interesting findings. On the surface, we don’t talk/write/speculate about the future, a few animated fantasies, a few novels dealing with alternative history, and some timeless dystopian theatre play. And soon I realised I need to educate myself about video games and comic books. Not only we don’t write/create our takes on the future but often being omitted from having future in many other scenarios: in some films, middle-east is consumed/destroyed, because of its natural resources and/or appear on some war room’s wall map or flickering dots on a screen during a pandemic outbreak. The future is blurry; we made countless Macro & Micro mistakes; we know the storm is inevitable; we watch science fiction, or we don’t… The future was never bright as they promised it to be, for some parts of the world is still as non-existent and discriminatory, as if it wasn’t pictured at all and never predicted. See-through eyes, laser guns, and flying objects became killer drones, 3D printing both an environmental threat and a cure for ventilator shortage. The colourful plastic future once was pictured dreamy and chic but no one told us about the dust to come.
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:: LINKS ::
►Arash Khosronejad
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►Arash Hanaei
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►Nassrin Nasser
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►Maryam Katan
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►Shaahin Peymani
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►Elnaz Salehi
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►Milad Forouzandeh
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►Mohsen Hazrati
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►Nazanin Aharipour
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►Ramin Rahimi
Website
* This event is part of Oyoun's a’21 Festival - Post Digital Ignorance x Techno Utopia aiming to challenge the status quo while centring perspectives on non-human life, queer ecology, decolonising knowledge, forced displacement, and more.The project was financed by Berlin’s Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
Produced by: Oyoun in collaboration with amberPlatform
Curatorial Team: Amirali Ghasemi, Ali Cem Doğan, Cenkhan Aksoy, Christoph Wachter, Ebru Yetişkin, Ekmel Ertan, Hamza Chamas, Mathias Jud, Milad Forouzandeh, Mohsen Hazrat, Nina Martin, Rajaa Shamam, Youssef El Idrissi Participants include: Eda Sütunç, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Mary Maggic, Rachel Uwa, Renata Salecl, Seloua Luste Boulbina, Pelin Tan, Yara Mekawei, and many more.
Funded by: Capital Cultural Fund
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a'21: Decolonization of Epistemology_Kounaktif
2021-03-19 15:00 - 17:00 UTC
►"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/organisational structure. Seloua Luste Boulbina, philosopher, will speak about ways of decolonizing paradigms, and different ways to approach epistemology and by extension ignorance.
Language : French (translation will come later in subtitles).
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:: LINKS ::
► Kounaktif
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►Seloua Luste Boulbina
#decolonize #philosophy , #ignorance
* This event is part of Oyoun's a’21 Festival - Post Digital Ignorance x Techno Utopia aiming to challenge the status quo while centring perspectives on non-human life, queer ecology, decolonising knowledge, forced displacement, and more.The project was financed by Berlin’s Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
Produced by: Oyoun in collaboration with amberPlatform
Curatorial Team: Amirali Ghasemi, Ali Cem Doğan, Cenkhan Aksoy, Christoph Wachter, Ebru Yetişkin, Ekmel Ertan, Hamza Chamas, Mathias Jud, Milad Forouzandeh, Mohsen Hazrat, Nina Martin, Rajaa Shamam, Youssef El Idrissi Participants include: Eda Sütunç, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Mary Maggic, Rachel Uwa, Renata Salecl, Seloua Luste Boulbina, Pelin Tan, Yara Mekawei, and many more.
Funded by: Capital Cultural Fund
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a’21: Removing passive observers_Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley
2021-03-18 19:00 (Europe/Berlin)
► 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 talk that required audience participation to determine the direction of the event.
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* This event is part of Oyoun's a’21 Festival - Post Digital Ignorance x Techno Utopia aiming to challenge the status quo while centring perspectives on non-human life, queer ecology, decolonising knowledge, forced displacement, and more.The project was financed by Berlin’s Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
► See updating festival program on https://ambernetworkfestival.org/
Produced by: Oyoun in collaboration with amberPlatform
Curatorial Team: Amirali Ghasemi, Ali Cem Doğan, Cenkhan Aksoy, Christoph Wachter, Ebru Yetişkin, Ekmel Ertan, Hamza Chamas, Mathias Jud, Milad Forouzandeh, Mohsen Hazrat, Nina Martin, Rajaa Shamam, Youssef El Idrissi
Participants include: Eda Sütunç, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Mary Maggic, Rachel Uwa, Renata Salecl, Seloua Luste Boulbina, Pelin Tan, Yara Mekawei, and many more.
Funded by: Capital Cultural Fund

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a'21: How can we decolonize Images and Aesthetics?_Kounaktif
2021-03-18 15:00 - 17:00 UTC
►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 relating to each other horizontally beyond any power/organizational structure. Nadir Bouhmouch, filmmaker, will present his approach to decolonization of images, aesthetics, and even knowledge, and how he’s challenging the mainstream Film Industry through his work.
Language : Moroccan Darija mixed with English (translation will come later in subtitles)
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:: LINKS ::
► KounAktif
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►Nadir Bouhmouch
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* This event is part of Oyoun's a’21 Festival - Post Digital Ignorance x Techno Utopia aiming to challenge the status quo while centring perspectives on non-human life, queer ecology, decolonising knowledge, forced displacement, and more.The project was financed by Berlin’s Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
Produced by: Oyoun in collaboration with amberPlatform
Curatorial Team: Amirali Ghasemi, Ali Cem Doğan, Cenkhan Aksoy, Christoph Wachter, Ebru Yetişkin, Ekmel Ertan, Hamza Chamas, Mathias Jud, Milad Forouzandeh, Mohsen Hazrat, Nina Martin, Rajaa Shamam, Youssef El Idrissi Participants include: Eda Sütunç, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Mary Maggic, Rachel Uwa, Renata Salecl, Seloua Luste Boulbina, Pelin Tan, Yara Mekawei, and many more. Funded by: Capital Cultural Fund
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a'21: Decolonizing Knowledge and Ignorance #1: Critical approach to decolonization of the Arts_Kounaktif
2021-03-17 15:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Berlin)
:: 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 arts field and how he relates to the question through his work.
Language : Moroccan Darija mixed with French
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:: LINKS ::
► Kounaktif
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► Abdeslam ZiouZiou
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* This event is part of Oyoun's a’21 Festival - Post Digital Ignorance x Techno Utopia aiming to challenge the status quo while centering perspectives on non-human life, queer ecology, decolonising knowledge, forced displacement, and more.The project was financed by Berlin’s Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
Produced by: Oyoun in collaboration with amberPlatform
Curatorial Team: Amirali Ghasemi, Ali Cem Doğan, Cenkhan Aksoy, Christoph Wachter, Ebru Yetişkin, Ekmel Ertan, Hamza Chamas, Mathias Jud, Milad Forouzandeh, Mohsen Hazrat, Nina Martin, Rajaa Shamam, Youssef El Idrissi
Participants include: Eda Sütunç, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Mary Maggic, Rachel Uwa, Renata Salecl, Seloua Luste Boulbina, Pelin Tan, Yara Mekawei, and many more.
Funded by: Capital Cultural Fund
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a'21: Ignorant Fairies: New Materialist Queer-Feminist Political Ecological Approaches_amberPlatform
2021-03-16 12:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Berlin)
►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 human agency. It will also include an artistic-practical part where the participants will be instructed to practice Natasha Myer's Sensing Botanical Sensoria: A Kriya For Cultivating Your Inner Plant.
:: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/TR) ::
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 human agency. Plant studies of Natasha Myer, the conception of nature in Staicy Alaimo's queer ecology and nature-culture entanglement in the bio-art works of Marta de Menezes will be discussed within the scope of the larger new materialist, post-human queer-feminist theoretical contributions. The workshop will include a theoretical part to discuss the place of Nature, Matter and Body in Queer theory with a special emphasis on new materialist critics of Judith Butler's conception of body and performativity. Queer feminist theorists like Stacy Alaimo provide us with valuable tools to reconsider our conception of nature, body and matter in the post-digital world we live in which is gradually more construed around the tendency of dematerialisation. Yet, recent discussions on Anthropocene and the growing interest towards developing a political ecology to cope with ramped up uncertainties of a world afflicted with climate change, and unforeseen viral activities point towards the requirement to re-materialise our ties with the earth. The theoretical part of the workshop will thus give us a chance to reconsider what nature, matter and body signify in in the post-digital world with a special emphasis on Natasha Myer's ""becoming sensor"" project, Stacy Alaimo's queer ecologies and Marta de Menezes' bioart. It will also include an artistic-practical part where the participants will be instructed to practice Natasha Myer's Sensing Botanical Sensoria: A Kriya For Cultivating Your Inner Plant.
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:: LINKS ::
►Öznur Karakaş
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Website
* This event is part of Oyoun's a’21 Festival - Post Digital Ignorance x Techno Utopia aiming to challenge the status quo while centring perspectives on non-human life, queer ecology, decolonising knowledge, forced displacement, and more.The project was financed by Berlin’s Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
Produced by: Oyoun in collaboration with amberPlatform
Curatorial Team: Amirali Ghasemi, Ali Cem Doğan, Cenkhan Aksoy, Christoph Wachter, Ebru Yetişkin, Ekmel Ertan, Hamza Chamas, Mathias Jud, Milad Forouzandeh, Mohsen Hazrat, Nina Martin, Rajaa Shamam, Youssef El Idrissi
Participants include: Eda Sütunç, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Mary Maggic, Rachel Uwa, Renata Salecl, Seloua Luste Boulbina, Pelin Tan, Yara Mekawei, and many more.
Funded by: Capital Cultural Fund

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a'21: Techno-social solutions to disinformation_amberPlatform
2021-03-15 12:30 - 14:00 (Europe/Berlin)
►a'21: Techno-social solutions to disinformation_amberPlatform
When: 15. March 2021
Time: 12:30-14:00
:: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN) ::
Disinformation is fed by ignorance and in its turn it feeds ignorance. This will be a seminar activity in which humans' technological solutions and their limitations in countering disinformation will be reviewed. The seminar, which will be evaluated from the perspective of Science, Technology and Society studies - conducted as a master's program at Istanbul Technical University, aims to reinforce the public's understanding of technology and democratic participation.
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:: LINKS ::
►Erkan Saka
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►Ebru Yetişkin
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* This event is part of Oyoun's a’21 Festival - Post Digital Ignorance x Techno Utopia aiming to challenge the status quo while centring perspectives on non-human life, queer ecology, decolonising knowledge, forced displacement, and more.The project was financed by Berlin’s Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
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Produced by: Oyoun in collaboration with amberPlatform
Curatorial Team: Amirali Ghasemi, Ali Cem Doğan, Cenkhan Aksoy, Christoph Wachter, Ebru Yetişkin, Ekmel Ertan, Hamza Chamas, Mathias Jud, Milad Forouzandeh, Mohsen Hazrat, Nina Martin, Rajaa Shamam, Youssef El Idrissi Participants include: Eda Sütunç, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Mary Maggic, Rachel Uwa, Renata Salecl, Seloua Luste Boulbina, Pelin Tan, Yara Mekawei, and many more. Funded by: Capital Cultural Fund
www.oyoun.de @oyounberlin
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a'21: Songs of return: Alsarah and The Nubatones
2021-03-10 21:00 - 21:45 UTC
► a'21: Alsarah & the Nubatones: live concert
:: ABOUT ::
Alsarah & the Nubatones were born out of many dinner conversations between alsarah and rami el aasser about nubian ‘songs of return’, modern migration patterns and the cultural exchanges between sudan and egypt. A common love for the richness of pentatonic sounds, and shared migration experiences, expanded the conversation to include armenian – american oud player haig manouki- an and french born togo raised bass player mawuena kodjovi. Under the leadership of alsarah, the brooklyn based group’s sound grew into what they have dubbed as ‘east – african retro-pop’. In march of 2014 the group released their debut album “silt / طمي “ via wonderwheel recordings to in- ternational acclaim and great reviews, with the single soukura (it’s late) debuting on spin magazine’s blog. October of the same year saw the release of “silt remixed” featuring remixes by bodhisattva, nickodemus, captain planet, chancha via circuito, and many others. It also went on to be selected by the prestigious fact magazine as one of the best remix albums of 2014. Unfortunately that year also marked the passing of founding member haig manoukian from this world into the next. Taking his place is the brilliant oudist, and former student of hiag, brandon terzic. In addition we have also grown to include the charismatic and talented vocalist Nahid as a full time member of the band now. Since their first show in October of 2011, the group has performed nationally and internationally at many prestigious festivals and venues. With audiences varying in age and ethnicity, the nubatones has proven over and over that soul crosses all cultural and linguistic barriers.
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:: LINKS ::
https://www.alsarah.com/
#livemusic #eastafrican #pop #sudan #activism
* This event is part of Oyoun's a’21 Festival - Post Digital Ignorance x Techno Utopia aiming to challenge the status quo while centring perspectives on non-human life, queer ecology, decolonising knowledge, forced displacement, and more.The project was financed by Berlin’s Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
► See updating festival program on https://ambernetworkfestival.org/
Produced by: Oyoun in collaboration with amberPlatform
Curatorial Team: Amirali Ghasemi, Ali Cem Doğan, Cenkhan Aksoy, Christoph Wachter, Ebru Yetişkin, Ekmel Ertan, Hamza Chamas, Mathias Jud, Milad Forouzandeh, Mohsen Hazrat, Nina Martin, Rajaa Shamam, Youssef El Idrissi Participants include: Eda Sütunç, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Mary Maggic, Rachel Uwa, Renata Salecl, Seloua Luste Boulbina, Pelin Tan, Yara Mekawei, and many more. Funded by: Capital Cultural Fund
www.oyoun.de @oyounberlin
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Tjef Sema Paut Neteru Yoga with Nane Kahle
2021-02-28 11:30 - 13:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Online
Let’s decolonize yoga practice together 🧘🏾‍♀️🧘🏿‍♀️🧘🏽‍♂️🧘🏿‍♂️:
Join Nane Kahle (IG: @nanekahlesound) on a yoga journey...The “Tjef Sema Paut Neteru” System is a yoga practice based on Ancient Egyptian knowledge. This somatic technology brings you the awareness of the connection with your mind, your spirit, your body and your inner world in a way that celebrates your autonomy in cultivating inner strength and peace.

Explore the multi-faceted and unexplored side of this Egyptian practice with Nane:
When: Every Sunday until 4th April, 11:30 Berlin time
Where: Via Zoom > send Nane an email to get the link: nanekemeticyoga (at) gmail.com

Nane Kahle is a multicultural being whose roots are located in Ivory Coast, Senegal, Guadeloupe, France, and now, Berlin. This multiplicity informs her way of seeing and existing. Spirituality has always been around her since a young age and dive deeper exploring Ancient knowledge. Coming from a biology background Nane’s connection with nature and spirit science converges as a curiosity about living organisms and how they interact with a universal consciousness. Her creative practice is concerned with the intersection between movement, medicine, physical and spiritual. Her beliefs are rooted in humanity, balance and an energy of unity in all things.
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This series of yoga sessions is one of many ongoing projects for Oyoun’s curatorial focus EMBODIED TEMPORALITIES - some of the participants will be recording their experiences in different journal formats. Outcomes from all the projects will be presented and celebrated during the EMBODIED ARTS FESTIVAL from 8th - 18th April. So watch this space..
