* May 2019 (contribution to publication)
As part of Cana Bilir-Meier’s solo show Düsler Ülkesi in Kunstverein in Hamburg,
Together with Cana Bilir-Meier and Banu Karaca.
* 15 May 2019 (screening and talk)
Kanakino screening program curated by Ülkü Süngün.
zeitraumexit, Mannheim, Germany
* 5 May 2019 10:00 – 11:30 (film festival screening)
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, Scotland, UK
(what remains)
* 25 April 2019 at 4 pm (festival screening)
32nd European Media Art Festival (EMAF),
24-28 April 2019, Osnabruck, Germany.
* 15 April 2019 19:00 (round table discussion)
As part of the opening of exhibition of VAV Department, Gerrit Rietveld Academy
I still think I can be yours, you can be mine exhibition
Neverneverland, Amsterdam, NL
* 12 April – 25 April 2019 (exhibition/screening)
We Only Come Out At Night curated by Marco Nember
With Pierfrancesco Gava, Ali Kazma, Inge Meijer.
WOW, Amsterdam | February 28th – April 25th, 2019
* 6 April 2019 (film festival screening)
Courtisane Festival, Gent, Belgium.
(what remains)
* 21 – 23 March 2019 (screening & talk)
IMPAKT Screening: Affected Words
A three-day programme about language, technology and post-truth curated by Maria Morata.
Works by: Peggy Ahwesh, Peter Greenaway, John Latham, Virgile Fraisse, Harun Farocki, Allora & Calzadilla, Richard Serra & Nancy Holt, Jordi Colomer, eddie d, Peter Rose, John Smith and Katarina Zdjelar, VALIE EXPORT, Mathilde ter Heijne, Momu & No Es, Samson Young and Jean-Gabriel Périot.
IMPAKT, Utrecht, The Netherlands
* 20 March 2019 (lecture)
Guest lecturer, (lecturer Margaret Tali), Faculteit van Letteren
Groningen Uni., The Netherlands
* 10 March 2019 @14:00 (screening)
Refiguration: Contemporary Experiments from the Middle East and North Africa
Curated by Rachael Rakes.
Brakhage Symposium 2019, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
LINK: https://www.colorado.edu/brakhagecenter/symposium-2019/2019-symposium-schedule
* 6 – 10 februari 2019 (festival screening)
FLEX (Florida Experimental Film/Video Film Festival), USA
Screening curated by Almudena Escobar Lopez. With works by Parastoo and Faraz Anoushahpour, Mounira Al Sohl, Ja’Tovia Gary, Laura Huertas Millán, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, and Colectivo los Ingrávidos.
(With what remains)
LINK: https://www.flexfest.org/schedule/
* 6 – 10 februari 2019 (group exhibition)
Prospects & Concepts, Art Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
(with disruption & Ayhan and me)
LINK: https://www.mondriaanfonds.nl/activiteit/prospects-concepts/
–> Note: I’ve withdrawn from this show and the artist talk.
* 10 february 2019 (screening, artist talk, Q&A) –
Prospects & Concepts, Art Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
(with Ayhan and me)
–> Note: I’ve withdrawn from this show and the artist talk.
* 25 & 26 january 2019 (film festival screening)
Bright Future Program, International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands
(with what remains)
LINK: https://iffr.com/en/2019/films/what-remains
* 22 january 2019 (workshop)
Visual storytelling workshop with carers, Hackney Carers Center, London, UK
As part of my solo exhibition at PEER UK.
LINK: https://www.hackneycarers.org.uk/
* 20 january 2019 (screening)
New Resistances Post 68: Hiwa K. + belit sag
Punto de Vista @CINEMATEK, Brussels, Belgium
(with Sept. – Oct. 2015, Cizre ; and the image gazes back ; Ayhan and me)
LINK: http://cinematek.be/?node=17&event_id=300276002&donate=0
* 18 – 20 january 2019 (screening & discussion)
“Testimony as Environment: Violence, Aesthetics, Agency,” symposium curated and convened by Eray Çayl?.
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, UK.
(with Sept. – Oct. 2015, Cizre)
LINK: http://www.lse.ac.uk/european-institute/Events/TaE
* 16 january 2019 (screening)
Screening as part of a seminar in Tromsø International Film Festival(TIFF),
organized by Nordland Film & Art School (Kabelvåg, Lofoten Islands)
& Tromsø Academy of Contemporary Art at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
Curated by Erik Martinson.
(with Ayhan and me)
* 15 december 2018 (screening)
Screening Chapter # 6: ReTopia
with works by Marwa Arsanios, Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz, Anetta Mona Chia & Lucia Tkáová, Renata Poljak, belit sag and Katrin Winkler
curated by Katja Kobolt and Bettina Knaup
Screening Launch: December 15, 2018 at Haus 22 of the former stasi headquarters Berlin, in the frame of wild recuperations. materials from below: Artistic Research at the Archive of the GDR-Opposition, a project by District Berlin and Robert Havemann Society, curated by Suza Husse and Elske Rosenfeld.
D’EST: A Multi-Curatorial Online Platform for Video Art from the Former “East” and “West” is a project initiated by Ulrike Gerhardt with DISTRICT Berlin.
(with disruption)
* 12 – 16 december 2018 (film festival screening)
Alternative Film/Video, curated by Greg de Cuir Jr.
Belgrade, Serbia
(with if you say it forty times…)
*1 december 2018 @ 13:00 (screening)
Curatorial Incubator. v.15 WHAT THE F**K?! Video in the Age of Sublime Uncertainty
Screening program curated by Almudena Escobar Lopez, VTape, Toronto, Canada.
Link: http://www.vtape.org
(with disruption)
* 24 november 2018 (Opening solo show & public chat)
Opening event and public chat with Herb Schellenberger
LUX Moving Image, London, UK
Link: https://lux.org.uk/event/bl-ck-b-x-belit-sag
(with Ayhan ve ben & if you say it forty times…)
* 21 november – 22 december 2018 (solo exhibition)
BL CK B X: belit sag, LUX Moving Image, London, UK
Link: https://lux.org.uk/event/bl-ck-b-x-belit-sag
* 21 november 2018 (Breakfast preview of solo show)
Breakfast Preview, LUX Moving Image, London, UK
Link: https://lux.org.uk/event/bl-ck-b-x-belit-sag
*16/20/22/24 november 2018 (festival screening)
IDFA, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
(with cut-out)
Link: https://www.idfa.nl/en/film/c3f68896-f08b-4822-a777-bed8b95d9734/cut-out
* 16 november 2018 (screening and talk)
Birkbeck Institute of Moving Image, London, UK
With artist Michelle Williams Gamaker (with her work House of Women) and Chloe Thorne (from Forensic Architecture’s The Destruction of Yazidi Heritage project).
Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lux-bimi-present-belit-sag-tickets-51581118514
* 15 november – 26 january 2019 (solo exhibition)
the image unseen, the iage invisible, the image not shown, PEER Gallery, London, UK
(with new video work what remains)
LINK: http://www.peeruk.org/forthcoming-belit-sag/
* 3 november 2018 (film screening)
Short film program Focus: Shorts at the Sea, curated by Müge Demir,
Autumn Meeting, Da Nang, Vietnam.
(with Ayhan and me)
* 30 october 2018 @7pm (panel discussion)
Strategies of Opposition Panel discussion together with Cana Bilir-Meier and Banu Karaca. Düsseldorf, Germany
Dealing with state violence and erasure of perspectives through the use of images and archival research: Political anthropologist Banu Karaca, visual artists belit sa? and Cana Bilir-Meier in conversation about their artistic and research-based practices.
Link: https://www.kaistrasse10.de/en/exhibitions/ars-viva-2019.html
* 22 – 28 october 2018 (film festival screening)
37th Uppsala International Short Film Festival,
program curated by Leo Goldsmith.
Uppsala, Sweden.
(with disruption)
24 October 2018 @19:00
29 October 2018 @13:00
Link: http://www.shortfilmfestival.com/filmer/disruption/
* 19 october 2018 at 14:00 (film festival screening)
European Film Festival: 27. DokumentART films & future
Neubrandenburg, Germany
(with if you say it forty times)
*12 october 2018 (screening)
Screening as part of No Stop Non Stop, lothringer13, Munich, Germany
Love and its Discontents
Friday 12.10., 19-22 h, Lothringer13 Rroom
Želimir Žilnik \Suli Kurban \ Pary El-Qalqili \belit sag
(with cut-out)
* 4 october 2018 (artist talk)
Who’s afraid of the Archive? Interdisciplinary meetup for artists, scholars and archivists. Organized by ARIAS & Humanities Cluster (HuC), KNAW.
IISG (International Institute of Social History), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
* sept/oct/nov 2018 (seminar tutor)
Critical Studies Department (MFA), Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* 25 september 2018 (screening)
Image Control screening program, as part of THE VISIBLE SPECTRUM, a five-program film series.
Between Sept 4 – October 2 2018, Curated by Chi-hui Yang & Jon-Sesrie Goff.
Rubenstein Art Center, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
With: Ayo Akingbade, Madeline Anderson, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Ephraim Asili, Cab Calloway, Nazli Dincel, Kevin Jerome Everson, Ja’tovia Gary,
John Gianvito, Sky Hopinka, Adam Khalil, Zach Khalil, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, Howardena Pindell, Monica Saviron, Cauleen Smith, Maryam Taforky.
(with Ayhan and me)
* 20 – 21 september 2018 (duo performance)
new performance and sound work together with Angela Jerardi.
As part of Politics of Boredom conference event, organized by Aylin Kurel, Adam Gisborne, Helen Weeres.
Corridor Project Space, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
(She said, take your time, he said, save my time, they said, paste her time)
* 15 september – 30 december 2018 (group exhibition)
Kaybolan Araci (Vanishing Mediator) curated by Aylime Asli Demir.
Evliyagil Müzesi, Ankara, Turkey
(with Time to Love, Love the Time)
Link: http://www.muzeevliyagil.com/tr
* 14 – 30 september 2018 (group exhibition)
krieg kuratieren curated by Ezgi Erol.
With: Baran Çaginli, Alice Creischer & Andreas Siekmann, Ana Hoffner,
Fatos Irwen, Ihsan Oturmak, Songül Sönmez, Hito Steyerl.
wienwoche, Vienna, Austria.
http://www.wienwoche.org/de/531/krieg_kuratieren
(with Ayhan and me)
* 6 – 14 september 2018 (group exhibition)
The Current // Truth exhibition curated by Tina Rivers Ryan.
With: Constant Dullaart, Michael Mandiberg, Eva and Franco Mattes,
Thomson & Craighead, Clement Valla, Addie Wagenknecht
The Current Museum, NYC & online, USA
https://d.rip/thecurrent/posts/RHJvcFBvc3QtMzAxMw==
(with (Against) Randomness)
* 15-21 august 2018 (screening)
New Media Art Festival (NEMAF), Seoul, South Korea
LI-MA (http://li-ma.nl/) screening as part of the festival
(with cut-out)
* 22 june – 27 july 2018 (group exhibition)
Extreme Rational Operating System with Andrzej Steinbach, Irma Blumstock, Katja Aufleger, Tim Heide.
Curated by Andrzej Steinbach.
ASPN gallery, Leipzig, Germany.
(my camera seems to recognize people)
* 17 – 24 june 2018 (group exhibition)
We Interrupt Regular Broadcasting to Bring You This Special Program!
Curated for Stavros Niarchos Foundation, by Francesca Pietropaolo, Robert Storr, Barbara London and Kalliopi Minioudaki.
As part of the SNF festival Nostos 2018 at the Stavros Niarchos Cultural Center, Athens, Greece.
(disruption)
* 9 june 2018 (curating a screening program)
From HERE, From THERE – A screening program of migrant perspectives, curated together with Cana Bilir-Meier
Keupstrasse, Cologne, Germany
* 7 june 2018 at 19hrs (initiator and moderator)
Rethinking Debates on Freedom of the Arts and its Limits, A talk by Banu Karaca.
Moderation by belit sag.
Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen Innsbruck, Austria.
(As part of Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen Fellowship in Art and Theory)
* june 2018 (article on my work)
Photoresearcher Magazine no.29, essay by Lydia Nsiah on Ayhan and me amongst other works.
*25 may 2018 (radio program)
Pre, Post, Errors, Preposterous – A Radio Program on victimizing language, by Askin Ercan & belit sag
Freie Radio, Innsbruck, Austria
(As part of Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen Fellowship in Art and Theory)
* 24 may – 28 july 2018 (group show)
Collaborative installation by Askin Ercan, belit sag, Rezzan Gümgüm and Seçil Yaylali.
Kunstpavillion, Innsbruck, Austria
(As part of Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen Fellowship in Art and Theory exhibition)
* 17 may 2018 (seminar)
An evening session with Comparative Literature students on censorship and contemporary art (tutor Martin Sexl).
University of Innsbruck, Austria.
* 8 may 2018 (performance)
Encounters/ Karsilasmalar, A Performative act in public space by belit sag & Rezzan Gümgüm.
Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck, Austria
(As part of Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen Fellowship in Art and Theory)
* april 2018 (magazine contribution)
Florida Magazin #04, lothringer13florida, Munich, Germany
* 29 april 2018 (screening & talk)
NSU spots screening & talk, in Frauenfilmfestival Cologne, Germany
* 28 april 2018 (screening & talk)
Liquid Positions, Situated Knowledges, screening and talk together with Cana Bilir-Meier, moderated by Nanna Heidenreich
Frauenfilmfestival Cologne, Germany
* 26 april 2018 (screening & talk)
Screening and artist talk, @20:00, Media Studies, Cologne, Germany
*21 – 24 april 2018 (film festival screening)
Censurados Film Festival (www.censuradosfilmfestival.org), Lima, Peru
* 21 april 2018 (artist talk)
A day long event on Failure, organized by Kulturkollektiv ContrApunkt
Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck, Austria
* 14 april 2018 (festival screening program)
belit sag: How to resist, Screening program, Gegenkino, Leipzig, Germany
(curated by Amos Borchert)
* 14 april 2018 (workshop)
I have nothing to do with it – Workshop on censorship in artistic expression (together with Seçil Yaylali), Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck, Austria
(As part of Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen Fellowship in Art and Theory)
* 11 april 2018 (screening)
Common Visions curated by Almudena Escobar Lopez & Herb Shellenberger in The Guesthouse, Cork, Ireland.
(‘thank you’, (Against) Randomness, disruption)
* 10 april 2018 (moderation and Q&A)
Practice as Exchange, artist talk by Secil Yaylali, Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck, Austria
(As part of Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen Fellowship in Art and Theory)
* 31 march 2018 (film festival screening)
Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania
(Ayhan and me, 31 March @ 17:30)
* 7 & 9 march 2018 (screening)
Punto de Visto International Documentary Film Festival of Navarro, Pamplona, Basque Country
7 March 2018, 17:00
9 March 2018, 20:00
*26 february (screening and Q&A)
SPOTS X SPACE, NSU screening event together with Tunay Onder, organized by Liesa Kovacs, discussion moderated by Betul Seyma Kupeli, X Space, Vienna
* 23 february (guest lecturer)
Sandberg Institute Critical Studies Department (MFA), Amsterdam
* 3 feb. 2018 (screening + Q&A)
White Balance Screening Program, 16:00–18:00, Vortragssaal
With François Bucher, Michelle Williams Gamaker, Moderated by Florian Wüst.
transmediale, Berlin, Germany
* 2 feb. 2018 (panel discussion)
Nafarious Values: On Artistic Critique and Complicity Discussion, 11:30 – 13:00
With Eric Kluitenberg, Sven Lütticken, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Lioudmila Voropai, Marc Garrett. Moderated by Marc Garrett.
transmediale, Berlin, Germany
* february – june 2018 (fellowship)
Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen – Fellowship for art and theory, Innsbruck, Austria
([the —– work] project, together with Secil Yaylali, Rezzan Gümgüm and Askin Ercan)
* 23 january 2018 (screening & talk)
Screening and talk as part of Concrete Truth: Art and the Documentary group show, together with Siddhartha Mitter on Thomas Rafa’s work.
International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), NYC, USA
* 19 january – 14 april 2018 (solo show)
Let Me Remember, Squeaky Wheel Media and Arts Center, Buffalo, USA
Curated by Ekrem Serdar
* 16 january 2018 (screening & talk)
I do not remember, COMMON VISIONS program, Flaherty NYC, USA
Together with a member of Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, program curated by Almudena Escobar Lopez & Herb Schellenberger, discussion moderated by Chi-hui Yang.
* 13 – 26 january 2018 (trio show)
space, witnessing, in solidarity with Suat Ögüt, Merve Bedir & Alican Inal, PuntWG, Amsterdam, NL
* 11/16/18 january 2018 (workshop)
3 day video workshop with kids from Buffalo Youth Media Institute, Buffalo, USA
* 6 january 2018 (preview & talk)
space, witnessing, in solidarity with Suat Ögüt, Merve Bedir & Alican Inal, PuntWG, amsterdam, nl
*november 2017 (interview)
interview together with Sky Hopinka, by Almudena Escobar Lopez for Brooklyn Rail Nov. issue
* 25 november – 9 december 2017 (trio show)
w/ Merve Bedir and Suat Ogut, apartman ps, berlin, de
(presenting a new work in progress overexposed)
* 24 november 2017 @16hrs (conference)
Fragile Affinities conference, igbk, berlin, de
* 24 november 2017 @16hrs (screening)
Ayhan and me, amsterdam art weekend IDFA screenings, amsterdam, nl
*23 & 26 november 2017 (film festival screening)
exground filmfest, wiesbaden, de
(Ayhan and me screenings:
23rd nov., 5:30pm, wiesbaden
26th nov., 8pm, darmstadt)
*17 & 19 november 2017 (film festival screening)
34th kassel documentary film and video festival, kassel, de
(grain & Ayhan and me screenings:
Friday, Nov 17 at 11.15 am
Sunday, Nov 19 at 2 pm)
* 15 – 25 november 2017 (residency)
w/ Merve Bedir and Suat Ogut, apartman ps, berlin, de
(developing a new work-in-progress video installation overexposed)
* 8 – 13 november 2017 (film festival screening)
12th pravo ljudski film festival, sarajevo, bosnia and herzegovina
* 6-11 november 2017 (screening week)
How to talk about ‘we’, screening program as part of IMI group exhibition, w139, amsterdam, nl
* 6 november 2017 (screening)
Shape of a Surface: New works from Turkey screening, Echo Park Film Center, los angeles, usa
(grain)
* 5 november 2017 (screening event)
How to talk about ‘we’, screening event as part of IMI group exhibition, w139, amsterdam, nl
(People’s Tribunal for Unraveling the NSU Complex video-spots & Semra Ertan by Cana Bilir-Meier)
* 25 october 2017 (guest lecturer)
presentation on NSUspots, Ludwig Maximilian Universitat, munich, de
with Cana Bilir-Meier, in the class ‘Media representations in NSU case’ of Kerem Schamberger
* 24 oct. 2017 – 16 feb. 2018 (group show)
Concrete Truth: Art and the Documentary group show, ISCP, NYC, USA
(with disruption)
* 24 october 2017 (screening & talk)
screening and talk, lothringer13 florida, munich, de
* 13 oct. – 19 nov. 2017 (group show)
ideology meets implementation group show, w139, amsterdam, netherlands
(with see-believe, a new research in progress)
* 6 oct. 2017 – 25 january 2018 (group show)
On the natures of things, kunstlerhaus büchsenhausen, Innsbruck, Austria
curated by Andrei Siclodi
(with Ayhan and me)
* 6th & 9th october 2017 (screenings)
new york film festival, projections section (curated by Aily Nash & Dennis Lim), nyc, us
(with disruption)
* 6th – 27 oct. 2017 (group show)
alternative truths group exhibition, expoplu, nijmegen, the netherlands
curated by Youri Appelo
(with and the image gazes back)
* 6 october 2017 (presentation)
fellows lecture & presentation, künstlerhaus büchsenhausen, innsbruck, at
* 28 september – 1 october 2017 (screening& discussion)
SIDE LOOK: a festival of cinema & culture from Turkey, organized by libby sacer foundation in occupied and donated locations in athens, gr
(Ayhan and me)
* 23 september 2017 (screening)
LIMA collection screening, videomedeja festival, novi sad, serbia
(curated by Theus Zwakhals)
(Ayhan and me)
*16 september 2017 (workshop)
‘I have nothing to do with it‘ workshop on censorship in artistic expression (developed and facilitated together with Secil Yaylali), marabouparken konsthalle, stockholm, sweden
with kind support of Iaspis funds.
*15 sept. – 3 dec. 2017 (group show)
Mouths Shut, Loud Shouts group exhibition, marabouparken konsthalle, stockholm, sweden
(with Ayhan and me)
*10 september (artist talk)
farewell fotography, biennale für aktuelle fotografie, mannheim, de
w/ Fred Lonidier & Boaz Levin
* 9 sept. – 5 nov. 2017 (group show)
resisting images, farewell fotography, biennale für aktuelle fotografie, mannheim, germany
curated by Boaz Levin
(with my camera seems to recognize people)
*2 september 2017 (screenings)
screening NSU spots & discussion, documenta public program, kassel, de
*28 august – 1 sept. 2017 (panel discussion + talk + screening)
panel speaker, artist talk, screening // noise summer school & casco, utrecht, nl
* 26 august 2017 – 30 september 2017 (duo show)
I deleted your picture, duo show with Merve Bedir, Hotel Maria Kapel, hoorn, the netherlands
(collaborative installation works w/ Merve Bedir)
*11 august 2017 (screening & talk)
screening + talk, visite film programma, antwerp, be
(with Sept. – Oct. 2015, Cizre & Seyr-i Sokak videoactivist videos screening)
*2 august 2017 @ documenta14 public program, Kassel, de (screening)
The Parliament of Bodies: Rebuilding the Idea of a Global Left, w/ Naeem Mohaiemen
(with Sept. – Oct. 2015, Cizre)
*july 2017 (text contribution)
‘Toplumsal bedenin hayalet organlari‘ (Phantom limbs of the societal body) article on the theme Talim Terbiye (edited by Baris Kilicbay) in KaosQ+ (LGBTQ magazine), tr.
*22 July 2017, 7pm @ Lothringer13_Florida (screening and discussion)
on videomaking, activism and NSU-case, w/ Cana Bilir-Meier & Ayse Güleç, munich, de
*15 July 2017 (screening)
Transatlantyk Film Festival, Lodz, Poland
(with Ayhan and me)
*13 july 2017 (screening + q&a)
la variable & kaf kolektif (w/ Öykü Tekten), granada, spain
*7-9 july 2017 (seminar)
seminar guest, tabakalera II international film seminar what can an image do?, san sebastian, basque country
curated by Aily Nash; with Akram Zaatari, Naeem Mohaiemen, Susana de Sousa Dias, Eric Baudelaire, Maria Palacios Cruz
* 16 june 2017 (screening+talk)
guest, sandberg critical studies end of year program, amsterdam, nl
* 10 june – 17 september 2017 (group show)
NSU-spot video, (Against) Randomness, as part of Society of Friends of Halit Yozgat exhibition, documenta14, kassel, de
* 20 may – 26 July 2017 (group show)
post-peace group show, nest, den haag, nl
curated by Katia Krupennikova
(Ayhan and me + if you say it forty times…)
* may 2017 (magazine)
text contribution, we do not have bad intentions, nationalism issue text contribution, metropolis m
* 17-21 may 2017 (tribunal)
tribunal ”NSU-Komplex Auflösen”, cologne, de
((Against) randomness, 2 min. video-spot for NSU-tribunal)
* may 2017 (book launch)
Videonun Eylemi (The act of video) book on video activism in Turkey
(edited by Ege Berensel, contributions by Maurizio Lazzarato, Angela Melitopoulos, Hito Steyerl, Ozge Celikaslan, Artikisler, Oktay Ince, Alper Sen…)
(text contribution, Does nothing happen when nothing happens? )
* 11-16 may 2017 (short film festival)
participation, oberhausen short film festival seminar, oberhausen, de
* 3 may 2017 (event)
mini talk, did we see each other before?, talk at the hmm, vondelcs, a’dam, nl
* 13 april 2017 (screening + Q&A)
filmhuis breda, nl
* april 2017 (magazine launch)
contribution, documentaristics – documentation and their characteristics, an interview with Cana Bilir-Meier in KWI (Kunst Wissen Intervention) (magazine edited by Linda Klösel)
* april 2017 (publication launch)
contribution, In Solidarity/Dayanismayla, publication, sweden & turkey
(with Johanna Gustavsson, Felice Hapetzeder, Fikret Atay, Pelin Basaran, Secil Yaylali)
*4 april 2017 (talk, screening, Q&A)
Screening Gender & Performativity
as part of Resonances of The Work of Judith Butler Conference, amsterdam, nl
(Sept. – Oct. 2015, Cizre)
* 30 march 2017 (screening + Q&A)
courtisane festival, ghent, belgium
(Ayhan and me)
*18 march – 6 May 2017 (group exhibition)
tiny deaths: glitches, spells, interruptions group exhibition
Center for Contemporary Art Derry ~Londonderry, Northern Ireland
(and the image gazes back)
* 17 march 2017 at 11:30 (screening)
videoformes 2017 film festival, clermont-ferrand, france
(Ayhan and me – Prix Videoformes 2017 Mention / Distinction)
* 16/17/18 march 2017 (screening and talk)
uncensored international film days, vienna academy of fine arts, austria
(Ayhan and me)
*8-9 march 2017 (screening)
The Apparatus of Racism by People’s Tribunal Unraveling the NSU Complex, HKW, berlin, de
((Against) Randomness, videospot for People’s Tribunal)
*26 february 2017 (talk)
artist talk, württembergischer kunstverein stuttgart, de
*24 february – 6 may 2017 (group exhibition)
post-peace group show, württembergischer kunstverein stuttgart, de
(curated by Katia Krupennikova)
(Ayhan and me + new video: If you say it forty times…)
*18 february – 9 april 2017 (group exhibition)
rosa’s wound group show, museum of contemporary art, taipei, taiwan
(curated by Hsiang Ning Huang)
(Ayhan and me + grain)
*18 february 2017 (screening and talk)
bookstore project, amsterdam, nl
*8 february 2017 (guest lecturer)
theory class, audiovisual department, gerrit rietveld academy, amsterdam, nl
*30 january 2017 at 12:00 (talk)
artist talk, 46th international film festival rotterdam, nl
*29 january & 30 january 2017 (screening)
46th international film festival rotterdam, nl
(Ayhan and me)
* 14 january 2017 (talk)
talk @ klupko, amsterdam/nl
as part of guests, ghosts and gardening group exhibition, klupko, amsterdam, nl
( >> a moving image of a dead cop<< _a.k.a. do fictive images have tangible consequences?_)
*9 january – 11 march 2017 (group show)
While Meditating on War group exhibition, CBK zuidoost, amsterdam, nl
(grain & my camera seems to recognize people & Sept. – Oct. 2015, Cizre)
*3 december 2016 (talk & performance)
talk & performance with Cana Bilir-Meier
as part of search form group exhibition, kunsthalle exnergasse, wuk, vienna, austria
*26 november 2016 (talk)
arbeitskreise mapping colonialism talk (with Tebessüm Yilmaz and Rüzgar Buski), rosa luxemburg foundation, berlin, de
*15 – 20 november 2016 (screening)
screenings, 33. kasseler dokfest, de
(‘Eylül – Ekim 2015, Cizre‘ & ‘and the image gazes back‘)
* 18 october 2016 – november 2016 (group show)
On the fringe, the Istanbul landwalls exhibition, anamed, istanbul, tr (curated by Figen Kivilcim Corakbas)
[Struggle on the Fringe, video work]
*9 november – 17 dec. 2016
search form group exhibition, kunsthalle exnergasse, wuk, vienna, austria
[Mersin 16.02.03 – ‘The one who comes today and stays tomorrow’ – collaborative video and performance with Cana-Bilir Meier]
*2 november 2016
rear windows in layers screening, WORM, rotterdam, nl
*25-30 october 2016
jihlava international documentary film festival, jihlava, czech republic
(‘Sept. – Oct. 2015, Cizre‘)
*24-29 october 2016
klinik censorship talks @ marabouparken, stockholm, sweden
*23 october 2016
talk @ goleb, amsterdam, nl
*19 october 2016
visiting lecturer, documentary class of tina bastajian, amsterdam university college
* 16 october 2016
screening at los otros, quezon/philippines
(‘Sept. – Oct. 2015, Cizre‘)
*13 october 2016
screening, art anew gallery, taichung, taiwan
‘international film festival rotterdam shorts’ program, curated by Julian Ross
https://www.facebook.com/events/1605354283099911/
(‘Sept. – Oct. 2015, Cizre‘)
*1 october 2016 – 14 january 2017 (group show)
group show @ klupko, amsterdam, nl (curated by Igor Sevcuk and Go Eun Im)
[‘disruption’ (video) & ‘women of Cizre’ (video loops in 3 screens & textile print)]
*24 september 2016
talk @ the f-word, a fantastic feminist festival, amsterdam, nl
&
respondant to the seminar @ the sideroom, amsterdam, nl
* 12 september 2016
screening, toronto international film festival, ca
(‘Ayhan and me‘)
* 8 september 2016
this yearning is ours! group show, center of contemporary art in torun, poland
(screening ‘disruption‘ & talk)
* 19 -27 august 2016
screening (program curated by Burak Çevik), festival de cinéma de douarnenez, fr
(‘Ayhan and me‘)
* 1 august 2016 – 21 october 2016
video installation, PMB, amsterdam, nl
(‘the first day of superman’)
* 28 july 2016
do fictive images have tangible consequences? collaborative talk, side room, amsterdam, nl
* 13 july 2016, 18hrs
international rotterdam film festival, white nights screenings, museumpark, rotterdam
(‘Sept. – Oct. 2015, Cizre’)
*23 june 2016
screening & talk, vienna fine arts academy at post-conceptual class
(‘do fictive images have tangible consequences?’)
* 31 may 2016
9th documentarist istanbul documentary days, tr
‘sansüre direnen filmler’ bolumu/’films resisting censorship’ section
(screening, ‘Ayhan and me’)
* 13 may – 18 september 2016
this yearning is ours! group show, center of contemporary art in torun, poland
(‘paper’)
* 5-10 may 2016
62. oberhausen international film festival, international competition, oberhausen/de
(‘Sept. – Oct. 2015, Cizre’ & ‘and the image gazes back’)
* 30 april – 15 may 2016
canale grande group show, kunstverein pfaffenhofen, pfaffenhofen/de
(‘lost’)
* 29 april 2016
ISCP open studios, new york, usa
(‘Ayhan and me’)
* 21 april – 5 may 2016
59th san francisco international film festival, usa
festival competition – new visions
(screening, ‘Sept. -Oct. 2015, Cizre’)
* 25 march 2016
courtisane festival, ghent, belgium
(screening, ‘Sept. -Oct. 2015, Cizre’)
*4 march – 2 april 2016
overseas group show, the american college of greece art gallery, athens, greece
curated by galini notti
(‘and the image gazes back’)
*1 march – 31 may 2016
ISCP (international studio and curatorial program) residency, new york, usa
*1 march – 7 may 2016 (THIS EXHIBITION HAS BEEN CENSORED BY AKBANK SANAT)
‘post-peace’ group exhibition, akbank sanat, istanbul, tr
curated by katia krupennikova, winner of 2015 akbank curator competition
(new video: ‘Ayhan and me’)
*31 january – 22 may 2016
close-up group show, eye film institute, amsterdam, nl
(group show, ‘and the image gazes back’)
* 26 february – 1 april 2016
duo show ‘hazy stories’ with Giovanni Giaretta, corridor (de kijkdoos), amsterdam, nl
(new works: gaze – textile prints and sound piece & grain – video work)
* 20 february 2016
‘the act of the image’ screening and panel discussion in müdahaleler (interventions) program (collaboration with FOL sinema)
if istanbul film festival, salt beyoglu, istanbul, tr
(compiling screening + panel program + publication)
*5 february 2016
“intersections: cinema, performance, networked media, and politics”
caa 104th annual conference, washington dc, usa
http://www.newmediacaucus.org/events/2016-caa-washington-d-c-events/
(contributor)
*31 january + 1 february 2016
45th international rotterdam film festival, rotterdam, nl
‘i am a Camera’ shorts program (official selection)
(screening, ‘Sept. -Oct. 2015, Cizre’)
*31 january – 22 may 2016
close-up group show, eye film institute, amsterdam, nl
(group show, ‘and the image gazes back’)
*23-24 january 2016
parrhesiastes screening, academy of fine arts vienna, austria
curated by Burak Cevik
(screening, ‘Nurcan‘)
*26-29 november 2015
rijksakademieOPEN, group show, amsterdam, nl
(‘Sept. – Oct. 2015, Cizre’ + ‘my camera seems to recognize people’)
* 7 november 2015
museumnight, group show, rijksakademie, amsterdam, nl
(‘what a beautiful voice – act1′)
*20 october 2015
info night on cizre, experience sharing and recent footage from civil war in cizre, nieuwland social center, amsterdam, nl
(presentation)
*7-8 october 2015
‘recording social movements, rethinking collective memory in turkey’ panel, istanbul biennial, tr
(panel participation)
*19&21 september 2015
screening, DMZ docs festival, korea
(‘and the image gazes back’)
* 15-27 july 2015
A Story Behind A Story Behind A Story, duo show, FRISE Kunstlerhaus, hamburg, de
(‘lost’ + ‘what a beautiful voice – act1’)
*june/july 2015
unPeace AIR program & workshop w/ highschool teenagers, FRISE kunstlerhaus & blankenese highschool, hamburg, de
(resident + workshop facilitator)
* 22-24 may 2015
video workshop with kids, in collaboration with gündem çocuk, cizre, sirnak, turkey
(workshop facilitator)
* 9-10 may 2015
yami-ichi, offline internet black market @ brakke grond, amsterdam, nl
(participant)
* 19 march 2015
surplus of istanbul group show, neu west berlin, de
(‘buluntu (found)’)
* 29-30 november 2014
rijksakademieOPEN , amsterdam, nl
(‘and the image gazes back’ + ‘lost’)
* 17-21 september 2014
closer to gaza auction, beneficiary auction online on paddle8
(‘counting’)
closer to gaza auction exhibition, kuhlhaus, berlin, germany
(‘counting’)
* 12-15 september 2014
Salon Public Happiness, as part of UTOPIAN PULSE – FLARES IN THE DARKROOM exhibition, seccession, vienna, austria
(panel participant, presenting videoccupy)
