15th of January with Mustafa Emin Büyükcoşkun.

I’m climbing up the staircases. I look, where the voice of Tahsin is coming up. I was saying ‘He’s gonna return one day’, did he really come back? As I’m moving towards the staircases, his voice is coming clearer. That’s really the voice of Tahsin. I arrived in front of the door, which is full of shoes. I entered the living room, looked at the guests. I was looking for Tahsin but I couldn’t see him. We had a small cassette player. I realised that the voice was coming from the cassette player. I looked at that. I wished him to sit and speak there.

Mustafa Emin Büyükcoşkun is an artist and filmmaker, lives and works in Karlsruhe and Istanbul. His practice focuses on the agency and the potentiality of truth making of the media, particularly of sound. After working as director and assistant in film, his current practice is mediating still and moving images, deconstructing metanarratives and decolonizing canonical history writing practices. After studying history and sociology at Boğaziçi University, he graduated from Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in Media Arts, with a diploma about the soundscapes in Kurdish cinema. He is an alumna of Jan van Eyck Academie in Netherlands and currently is a PhD in Practice candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, looking for methodologies of how to open video archives from the 90s, asking the question repeatedly ‘How do moving images move us?’.

Winter Term 2024-25

4th of December with Pille-Rin Jaik

This time the studio will be filled with 90’s pop melodies, contradictory storytelling and disappearing images from the artistic research on political and poetic storytelling in Baltic landscapes by @pilleriinjaik

In her ongoing PhD research Pille-Riin Jaik follows different leads of post-colonial writers who deal with alternative ways of storytelling while also dwelling more directly on theory about landscape’s ethno-linguistic ownership paradigms, imperialistic aspirations and geopolitical tendencies of the Baltic region. She is curious of different historical attempts of re-contextualisation in the area (f.e Ethnofuturism, Estonian former president Lennar Meri’s new national origin story, different historic theme parks), but also about current political processes of neo-libreral capitalist nation state buildings. Her wish is to dismantle, hack and root out some common myths in and about Baltic landscapes and try to generate a more complex understanding of this area, but also reflect on storytelling as a political and poetic strategy. In the Fantastic Wednesday she wishes to share some thoughts and images she has been lingering on last year while following circular shapes, historical loops, Meteorite craters, imperialistic bears, limestone mines and 90’s pop songs.

6th of November with Gris García

A listening session with Gris García and her project Playlist Curada in conversation with Andrea Ancira.

@playlist_curada is a project initiated in 2022 by Gris García that invites artists, curators, and writers to share their ideas, interests, and references, or to expand their research through musical playlists. This project seeks to be a platform to access diverse sound materials, unfolding both in digital format and sometimes through activations, talks, workshops, exhibitions and performances. Gris will introduce more about the project and share some music that are part of the curated playlists. As part of this year’s curatorial program, Andrea Ancira will join us to discuss her participation with the playlist "Things You Cannot Touch But You Miss."