► 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: 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 [...]
►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 [...]
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 [...]
►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 [...]
►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 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 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 behaviour and conciseness and how this lead to [...]
►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 will transform the outer facade of a building in the neighborhood. Artist Ali Kanal will place the [...]
► 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. [...]
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: 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: 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 polarised and stigmatised ONLINE version [...]
►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 will discuss [...]
►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 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 [...]
