Program Bern
MOMENT OF AGENCY (Art/Cinema)
SUN 02.11. 16:00h Kino Kunstmuseum
Moment of Agency aims to discuss and reflect on the norms of agency and artist as a mediator of imagery and as a catalyst of meaning production. The content that is evoked in the title reflects the positioning of a certain artistic stance of the Turkish artists living and working in various cities such as Istanbul, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main or Amsterdam.
Further Dates:
TUE 04.11. 20:00h Stadtkino Basel
DAS ANDERE ISTANBUL (Cinema/Lecture)
FRI 07.11. 20:30h Queersicht- Lounge im PROGR
The symposium serves as a conceptual bridge between the S AM exhibition ‘Balkanology’ and Culturescapes 2008 ‘Turkey’. Representatives of individual urban initiatives and urban experts discuss informal building and unregulated urban planning such as the Turkish ‘Gecekondu’ and similar urban phenomena in South Eastern Europe.
Further Dates:
SUN 16.11. 13:00 & 16:00h - Rote Fabrik, Zürich
Electronic Tribal: DJ İpek – Clubbing a la turka (Music)
FRI 07.11. 22:00h bee-flat im PROGR
DJane İpek calls the hip style with which she reduces clubs to a state of chaos ‘Eclectic Berlinistan’. The Swiss DJs Silence and Ben I Sabbah will be spinning the turntable on the same evening.
Further Dates:
SAT 01.11. 19:00h Eröffnung: DJ İpek u. a. - Theater Basel
HÄSSLICHES MENSCHLEIN (Theater)
SAT 08.11. 20:30h & SO 09.11. 19:00h Schlachthaus
Three women – a Kurd, a lesbian and a religious woman tell about their lives in Turkey. They have one thing in common: all of them are confronted by society's prejudices and interventions. Three cleverly cut, subjective views presented in monologues, which lead to the question they all have in common: how it is possible to be
Further Dates:
THU 13.11. 21:15h - Rote Fabrik, Zürich
FRI 14.11. 21:15h - Rote Fabrik, Zürich
SUN 23.11. 18:00h - Kaserne, Basel
TAKSİM TRİO (Music)
SUN 16.11. 20:30h bee-flat im PROGR
Taksim Trio are among the most prominent figures in the Turkish music scene. They create tantalising sounds between oriental traditions, jazz, ambient and avant-garde – tingling arabesques!
Weiter Termine:
SUN 09.11. 20:00h - Burghof Lörrach
TUE 11.11. 20:30h - Moods, Zürich
MURAT UYURKULAK (Literature)
MON 17.11. 20:30h Schlachthaus
Uyurkulak’s first book ‘Anger’ takes the reader along with the novel’s protagonists on a journey through Turkey and its unofficial history from the 1950s through today.
Further Dates:
THU 13.11. 19:30h Rote Fabrik, Zürich
FRI 14.11. 19:30h QBus, Uster
SAT 15.11. 18:00h Literaturhaus Basel
SUN 16.11. 20:00h Theater Chur MI 19.11. 20:00h Stadtbibliothek Winterthur
Gitmek (My Marlon & Brando) (Cinema)
SAT 22.11. 20.30 h Kino Kunstmuseum, Bern
SUN 23.11. 16.00 h Kino Kunstmuseum, Bern
A dramatic road movie, based on the true story of a Turkish woman, Ayça Damgacı. After losing touch with her Kurdish darling, due to the outbreak of the war in northern Iraq, she sets out in search of him.
At 19./20./22.11. in presence of Ayca Damgaci and Hüseyin Karabey
Further Dates:
THU 20. & FRI 21.11. 19.15 h Xenix Zürich
WED 19.11. 21:00 h & WED 26.11. 18.30 h Stadtkino Basel
TALDANS ‹GRAF› (Dance)
THU 27.11. 20:00h - Dampfzentrale
In the theory of graphs, the term ‘Graph’ denotes a mathematical structure of nodes and angles. Both these elements play a role for the two dancers in this piece, both in the design of the stage setting and in the vocabulary of the movements performed by Filiz Sızanlı and Mustafa Kaplan. In Erki De Vries’s abstract scenography, the room is repeatedly divided, with threads and knots, into new cells, in which the two bodies orientate and adapt – even in the face of obvious physical resistance.
Further Dates:
THU 20.11. 19:30h - Kaserne, Basel
SAT 22.11. 20:30h - L’Usine, Genf
AYDIN TEKER ‹harS› (Dance)
SAT 29.11. 20:00h Dampfzentrale
In the dance ‘harS’, a female dancer investigates the relationship between the human body and an instrument invented by human beings – the harp. Ayşe Orhon, who studied both the harp and dance, investigates the instrument’s spatial and kinetic possibilities and thus arrives at some surprising results: body and object encounter each other in previously unknown terrain, appear to merge with each
Further Dates:
SUN 16.11. 18:30h Rote Fabrik, Zürich
TUE 18.11. & DO 20.11. 20:30h Kaserne, Basel
SAT 22.11 20:h Theater Chur
HA ZA VU ZA (Music/Art)
SAT 29.11. 22:00h Dampfzentrale
Ha za vu zu will develop a variety of artistic activities, in the venues and throughout the cities. These will include, among other things, photo-karaoke performances, intervention in the city, actions and a
Further Dates:
MON 10.11. – SA 15.11. „artists in residence“ Rote Fabrik, Zürich
SAT 15.11. 20:00h Performance-Abend mit Konzert Rote Fabrik, Zürich
TUE 18.11. – FR 28.11. „artists in residence“ Kaserne, Basel
SAT 22.11. Stadtintervention Kaserne, Basel
FRI 28.11. 20:00h Performance-Abend mit Konzert Kaserne, Basel
STIMMHORN & MERCAN DEDE (Music)
SUN 30.11. 20:30h Dampfzentrale
The Swiss duo Stimmhorn is known as border-crossers within the Helvetian topography of sound. Christian Zehnder is the voice, Balthasar Streiff the alphorn. Voice and alphorn now meet turntable and Ney flute: Mercan Dede is a traveller. As a musician, producer and DJ he commutes between his adopted home Montreal and his roots in the Bosporus, between modern electronic sound vaults and mystical Sufi spirituality.
Further Dates:
THU 27.11. 20:00h Kaserne, Basel
FRi 28.11. 20:00h Theater Chur
SAT 29.11. 20:30h Theater Chiasso
TUR 02.12. 20:00h Rote Fabrik, Zürich
WED 03.12. 20:30h BFM, Genf
THU 04.12. 20:00h Südpol, Luzern