YOUR BODY MUST BE HEARD @Armenia Art Fair.

YOUR BODY MUST BE HEARD

by

Özlem

Sarıyıldız and with Gizem Akman

is online @

Armenia Art Fair

.

In December, then in January.

Have a look:

http://openspace-armeniaartfair.com

OPEN STUDIO @ LANGE NACHT DER BILDER, Berlin

 FOUND FOOTAGE VIDEO-COLLAGES

& 

INTERSECTIONALITY OR VEHASILIKELAM 

@LANGE NACHT DER BILDER  - 2020

Details here. 

Join us!

04.September.2020

17:00-23:00

ZAHIR @SchoelerKunsthaus, Berlin

EXHIBITION20 | 20 - 100 Jahre Großberlin

 @SchoelerKunsthaus

Happy to be part of telling the story of

100 years of Großberlin

with my video 'Zahir'.

19. Augu-3.October 2020

Details here

HIER&JETZT: Connections // OPEN STUDIOS

 

OPEN STUDIOS

Join us! 

Friday, July 31st, from 5 till 8 PM at B.L.O. ATELIERS.

Photo: Almut Müller

The three HIER&JETZT: Connections residents of 2020 will present work in progress – including painting, video, and installation.

Accompanying them is HUJ alumni and now artistic director, ÖZLEM SARIYILDIZ, who will also be opening her studio to the public.

Details here.

SocialDistanceLess @SaarbrückerZeitung

SODA FEST

@ArrivalRoom 

is

covered by Saarbrücker Zeitung

SocialDistenceLess

by Özlem sarıyıldız is there too.

 

Take a look.

BLACK LIVES MATTER @Errant Sound, Berlin

BLACK LIVES MATTER

by Özlem Sarıyıldız and Bora Yediel

is at Errant Sound

as part of AARC#1 – TORTU

26. –  28. June 2020

AARC is an experimental artistic solidarity project conceived by Errant Sound and Apartment Project in Berlin. After the racist murders in Hanau, the two groups met to initiate a collaboration between the two project spaces – also as a political statement – by forming the ”Artists Against Racism Collaborative (AARC)”.

The short form AARC refers to the word arc — arc as a bridge between artists of different fields and cultural backgrounds. At the same time, the title phonetically evokes the “AARGGH!” interjection, conveying common feelings of despair, fear, and exhaustion among communities who are affected by racist attacks and/or exposed to subtle forms of racism. The collectively formulated voice develops individual and/or joint responses to such emotions and names and unveils everyday practices of racism. Through this collaboration, the two venues aim to create a mutual artistic conversation, facilitate a process of collaboration, and develop new forms of solidarity.

TORTU is the Turkish word for “residue”. It describes a solid matter that isn’t able to blend into the liquid in which it accumulates, clouding it when stirred. TORTU is what leaves its sticky traces on the body, what penetrates into the flesh; it seals off the network of communications; paralyzes the cells: It dominates. The works shown under the title TORTU characterize the urgency to respond to the political and social issue of racism whose impact on everybody’s life cannot be ignored. Racism hangs there among us, unresolved and unbroken, clouding judgment, obstructing transparency, and tainting social and political environments.

Since April about 15 artists were in a regular exchange. Some new collaborations emerged and will be presented in connection with existing works. The AARC-series will be continued this year in an open group.

AARC#1 — TORTU  is a three-day exhibition at Errant Sound combined with an event with performances and presentations at Apartment Project. 
Artists: Emre Birişmen, Andrei Cucu, Melih Sarıgöl & Laura Mello, Oliver Möst, Özlem Sarıyıldız & Bora Yediel, Çiğdem Üçüncü & Steffi Weismann

SocialDistenceLess featured @ ARTE

 SocialDistanceLess by

Özlem Sarıyıldız

featured @

Arte

as part of the SODA-Festival.

Shorter than short

Follow up the 20 secs from 09'20'':

here

And don't miss the powerful works

reflecting on SocialDistancing @sodafestival.de

organized by the beautiful team of Arrival Room, Saarbrücken.

music by 6zm

WELCOMED TO GERMANY? @LAbour Film Fest, Turkey

 'Welcomed to Germany?'

will be online today

-May 4th, 2020 - 20:00-

as part of Labour Film Festival, Turkey.

An online chat will follow.

The screening link is here.

ISTANBUL NOTES online as part of HUJ:C Screenings

 

ISTANBUL NOTES 

will be online for 48 hours as part of 

CONNECTIONS: SCREENINGS Series of 

HUJ:C and MING STUDIOS  

Friday 3 + Saturday 4 April 2020 

available on Vimeo of HIER&JETZT: Connection

more here

CONNECTIONS:SCREENINGS is a weekly online screening series curated by the artistic direction team of HIER&JETZT:Connections based in Berlin, Germany. The series will feature a new film, by a different artist each week, and be viewable online Fridays & Saturdays for a total of 48 hours.

WATER SALT FLOUR @ FilmMor - Online

WATER SALT FLOUR will be online today

as part of

International Filmmor Women’s Film Festival.

Take a look.

KIYI KIYI @ FilmMor - Online

 

THERE AND BACK 

will be online today

as part of

International Filmmor Women’s Film Festival.

Take a look.

YOUR BODY MUST BE HEARD in London

YOUR BODY MUST BE HEARD 

will be exhibited 

on Friday 20 March 2020

at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club (London)

for ‘Deep Trash: Turkish Delight’.

details here and here.

join us!

TO CORRECT THE WORLD in Adana, Turkey

TO CORRECT THE WORLD 

is in Adana, Turkey

as part of 

Çukurova Documentary Days

in Çukurova University,

Faculty of Communication.

YOUR BODY MUST BE HEARD in Berlin

YOUR BODY MUST BE HEARD 

will be at 

Wolf Kino
Open Mic Night.

on March 11th, at 19:30.
Join us.

WELCOMED TO GERMANY? & ZAHIR in Berlin

WELCOMED TO GERMANY? & ZAHIR

will be exhibited
as part of the 

*COLLECTING MOMENTUM #2

 curated by Kopuntu and  BorgoFuturo.

details here and here.

THERE AND BACK & ISTANBUL NOTES in Berlin

20.02.2020 

KIYI KIYI / THERE AND BACK 

trailer: https://vimeo.com/59870337

dir. Özlem Sarıyıldız, Bilge Demirtaş 

TR with ENG subtitles

25’00’’; 2013; Turkey

Who passes us from Dalyan town to the Kaunos Tombs and Çandır village located on both sides of the canal which joins the Aegean Sea are the rowing women. Homes and boats for these women, who have been making a living from rowing for many years, have become an extension of each other; and the relationships they established in these places and with these places have been intertwined. 'There and back' follows  the daily lives of  the rowing women whose lives are organized away from the patterns of the urban theories.

27.02.2020 (with the participation of Özlem Sarıyıldız)

İSTANBUL MAKAMI / ISTANBUL NOTES

trailer: https://vimeo.com/165433060

dir. Özlem Sarıyıldız, Yunus Emre Aydın

TR with ENG subtitles

69'46''; 2016; Turkey

Istanbul Notes is a cinematographic improvisation with five musicians from abroad who fall in love with the Maqam Music (Classical Ottoman Music) and decide to live in Turkey believing that music might best be learned in the lands it was born and performed. Each has different stories but the desire to find their own paths despite modern times’ obligations intersects their roads. Constructing three layers -music, İstanbul and combination of both in the filmic platform- the film is a modern times fairytale in praise of İstanbul and its classical music; a film about obstinacy, desire, looking for one’s own raison d’etre, travelling, and the power of music to understand the other and express oneself in the pursuit of intertwining stories following passion.

"KEIN MENSCH HAT DAS RECHT ZU GEHORCHEN" launches in Berlin

"KEIN MENSCH HAT DAS RECHT ZU GEHORCHEN" / 

"NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO OBEY" 

(site-specific video installation)

by Özlem Sarıyıldız and Bora Yediel


launches @Villa Heike


as part of Unter Palmen ein U-Boot


together with the works of the amazing artists of 
Hier&Jetzt: CONNECTIONS.

Join us for a drink!

Details here and here

'The Earth Does Not Forget' in Berlin

THE EARTH DOES NOT FORGET is a multi-media installation and performance where the sounds of the revolts across the world echo in each other, where our words are engraved on earth to remember the images of our struggles for justice. It starts with Gezi and spreads along with times and geographies. It tells both a personal story and a collection of personal stories. It desires to speak every language, and speak through each of them. And I have to say, it is naive, yet persistent. 

THE EARTH DOES NOT FORGET is a section of ongoing artistic research that continuously seeks collaboration. 

I asked my friends from 20 countries, the ones I could reach, to send me the slogans they chant(ed). They sent them to me along with their stories. Then, I engraved the words they claimed on earth. Now, I would like to present these tiles to you. Come! Join us and take them home with you. Bring your words to the table and let's toast them.

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DIE ERDE VERGISST NICHT ist eine Multimediale Installation und performance, in der die weltweiten Sounds der Aufstände und Rebellionen nachhallen; in der unsere Wörter in die Erde graviert sind und an die Bilder von unseren Kämpfen für Gerechtigkeit zu erinnern. Es beginnt mit Gezi und breitet sich dann zeitlich und geografisch aus. Die Installation erzählt eine persönliche Geschichte, ist aber auch die Sammlung von vielen Geschichten. Sie will jede Sprache sprechen und durch jede Sprache zu sprechen. Ich muss zugeben: Es ist naiv und dennoch hartnäckig.

DIE ERDE VERGISST NICHT ist eine andauernde künstlerische Suche, die kontinuierlich auf der Suche nach Kooperationen ist.  

In 20 Ländern habe alle meine Freund*innen, die ich erreichen konnte, gebeten, mir die Slogans und Sprüche zu schicken, die sie singen und sangen. Sie haben sie zusammen mit ihren Geschichten geschickt und ich habe ihre Wörter auf Erde geschrieben. Diese Keramikkacheln möchte ich euch nun präsentieren. Kommt! Schließt euch an und nehmt sie mit nach Hause. Bringt eure Slogans an den Tisch und stoßt auf sie an. 

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“The Earth Does Not Forget” 
is supported by
Bezirksamt Neukölln von Berlin
Abteilung Bildung, Schule, Kultur
und Sport Fachbereich Kultur.

Recent films in Berlin

"Your Body Must Be Heard" and 

"Welcomed to Germany?" and 

"Intersectionality or Velhasılıkelam" 

by Özlem Sarıyıldız 

will be taking patriarchy apArt

this Thursday.

@Projektraum "art.endart" 

Please join us!

details are here.

'Your Body Must Be Heard' in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

'Your Body Must Be Heard' 

is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

as part of 

12G ContemporaryVideo Art Festival

@12GatesArts

Details here and here.