► a’21: techno utopia x post-digital ignorance ► 10 MARCH - 18 MAY, 2021 :: EXHIBITIONS :: PERFORMANCES :: TALKS, WORKSHOPS & LECTURES :: & MORE :: ABOUT a’21 FESTIVAL :: The past few decades have witnessed a tremendous proliferation of digital technology. References to a techno-utopia where knowledge would be available to each and [...]
►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 [...]
:: 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: 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 :: 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: 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 [...]
► 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 [...]
:: 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. [...]
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 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 [...]
►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: 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 [...]
► 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 Audience will attend to a happening in the neighbourhood. : 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 Using sound to document a neighbourhood 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 :: 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 a ongoing podcast named Random Walk by Bager Akbay and Tevfik Uyar. ► Click "going" on Facebook to stay [...]
