About this Event
Panel with Yelta Köm (moderator), Asli Duru (panelist), Banu Çiçek Tülü (panelist) and Yaşar Adnan Adanalı (panelist).
The Implications of Urbanization for Inhabitants’ Relationship with the City:
Moods of Living | Experiences, Challenges, Hopes
This panel discussion will discuss moods of living, engaging the body and emotions, visual and sensual, urban and beyond. With a special focus on collectivity, urban experience, and inhabitants, the panel offers several contributions on the ways in which we live, work, and even exist together while taking a standpoint of the Path Project. This will lead the participants to an exploratory space to question how we perceive the moods of an urban experience and our relationship as inhabitants. The panel invites us to think about our daily life and moods and present the contributor's collective experience from Berlin and Istanbul and their suggestions in social, cultural, political, and urban environments.
Don't miss it! We are looking forward to seeing you.
Doors Open 18:30 // Event Start 19:00
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Yelta Köm is an architect, artist, and researcher who incorporated architecture, artistic and spatial practices, and curatorial approaches to discuss social and political issues. His work is mainly influenced by the perception of the environment, the image of the city, neoliberal transformations, the tension between nature and technology, and collective movements. Currently, he is a researcher at the Topological Atlas project hosted by TU Delft and a guest lecturer at Berlin International University of Applied Sciences.
Asli Duru is an urban geographer, cultural facilitator, and creative practitioner. Through her work, she aims to expand the knowledge on the embodied ways to understand and transform the spatial configurations of oppressive, exclusionary, discriminatory social relations. Central to this project is developing the tools to navigate the transient spatiality of the body itself as a tech-mediated, emotionally extended and intersectionally vulnerable landscape. These questions so far have energized various research projects in Munich, Istanbul, Oxford, Berlin that interrogated spatial experiences of memory, mobility, violence, and more recently, of the links between urban space and gendered mental health.
Banu Çiçek Tülü is a researcher, artist and DJ with a background in urban design from South-East Turkey based in Berlin. Her academic and artistic interests include participation, public space, sonic environment, acoustic ecology, collective listening, environmental spatial justice, urban activism, intersectional feminism, and interdisciplinary methodologies.
Yaşar Adnan Adanalı is an urbanist living in Istanbul. He is one of the co-founders of Center for Spatial Justice, an independent institute specialized in environmental justice and right to the city. He has a fellowship from Ashoka Foundation on social entrepreneurship and from Bertha Foundation on urban activism. Currently, Yaşar is setting up a new multi-purpose hub in Istanbul called Postane, which is designed to serve individuals and organizations whose work focus on creating social and environmental impact aiming to build a more just city, country, planet.
Şehnaz Layıkel was born in 1975 in Istanbul, Turkey. She has been living and working in Berlin since 2017. Since 2017, I have been doing my doctorate at the Berlin University of the Arts, at the Faculty of Design and working in the Gropius Bau as a member of the education team. She has worked in NGOs for many years and coordinated community-based art and culture projects, as well as human rights projects. She also curated an exhibition on the refugee problem in Berlin in 2017. She was awarded the Echoing Green (2007) and Ashoka (2012) Fellowship Prizes.
Umut Azad Akkel: He was born in 1991 in Izmir, Turkey. Between 2010-2015 he lived in Istanbul and studied industrial product design. He has been living and working in Berlin since 2015. Since 2016 he has been studying at the Berlin University of the Arts, in the Weber class. He practices visual arts, product design and curates cultural seminars (such as.B.'Fava Connection' and 'Iran 101'). He is one of the co-founders of the initiative I.D.A. (Intersectionality / Diversity / Anti-Discrimination) at the Berlin University of the Arts. He is a member of the Soltity Collective (Fine Art Experimental Group) and BBK Berlin. He was awarded the DAAD Prize 2020. - umutazadakkel.com
Pegah Keshmirshekan is currently working and living in Berlin, Germany. The key question that she deals with in her artistic practice is how collective identities contribute to the formation of one’s personhood in the globalized world. Pegah has co-curated events and seminars on aspects of inter-cultural practices in contemporary art such as Fava Connection and Iran101. She is also a co-founder of the initiative I.D.A. (Intersectionality, Diversity, Antidiscrimination) and a member of the Soltity Collective.
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THE PATH: A Participatory Public Art Project
What do we experience in the metropoles of today’s world and what do the metropoles experience? Amidst all the flux of migration, gentrification and rapid urban change is the metropole able to contain us and vice versa? What if the paths we take every day start from nowhere and lead nowhere? Is it a togetherness that we experience or is it an 'otherness´' with a potential? What are the results, alternatives, solutions and what can art´'s role be in this process?
THE PATH is a multidisciplinary art project that problematises the relationship between the metropole and the individual from a queer, feminist point of view. Inspired by the pedestrian bridges over the highways in İstanbul, the participatory public installation at Tempelhofer Feld by Umut Azad Akkel invites the participants to an experience simulating the complex character of our co-existence with/within/despite the metropole.
Similarly, the events designed and planned around the conceptual basis of the installation, that will take place at Tempelhofer Feld and at Oyoun will create an experiential and intellectual hub for analyzing our complex being within/with/despite the metropole. The overall perspective of the series of events will be approaching the theme from multiple views and raising critical questions about all its complexity. The focus will be Berlin and Istanbul as two interrelated metropoles and the flux of migration between the two with its implications and possible historical as well as recent meanings.
The Path project was produced by Oyoun in collaboration with Umut Azad Akkel (IG: @azadonfires) as artistic director and Şehnaz Layıkel (IG: @sehnazlayikel) as lead curator. It was funded by the Lotto Stiftung and UdK KKWV.
See the full programme of events here: https://oyoun.de/event/the-path
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Oyoun, Lucy-Lameck-Straße 32, Berlin, Germany
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