TAKTIKEN FÜR EIN TRANSNATIONALES ARCHIV

Over the years, bi’bak has built up an archive of books, magazines, ephemera and films (analog and digital), a collection that will now become part of KIRAATHANE. A term with Arabic/Persian origins meaning “house of reading” that in modern Turkish more commonly refers to tea houses, KIRAATHANE extends the SİNEMA foyer, aiming to be a welcoming, publicly accessible place where people can access knowledge, read, watch and exchange.

SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA now calls on filmmakers, cineastes, archivists, students, artists, locals and scholars to take part in the first KIRAATHANE workshop, a collective interrogation of archival practices and politics in relation to film and moving image. 

Over the course of the first weekend in February, four invited experts - Nnenna Onuoha, Dominique Hurth, Şirin Fulya Erensoy and Mohammad Shawky Hassan - will host a series of short sessions giving an insight into their own work with archives. Alongside selected open call participants, through various modes of exchange we will come together to ask:

What is archived, how, and for whom? What tactics can be employed to ensure that KIRAATHANE, and archives in general, reflect the transnational societies to which they belong? How can archives serve the communities within which they are embedded?

Day One, Saturday 4th February

12:00 - 12:30: Introduction to the KIRAATHANE project
12:30 - 13:30: Archival Tactics #1 - Nnenna Onuoha, Ghosts, Silences and Hidden Things
13:30 -14:30: Lunch
14:30 - 16:00: Archival Tactics #2 - Dominique Hurth, Grain, Noise, Streaks and Hazes –
amplifying the gaps amidst (the infrastructures and taxonomies of) archival material
16:00 - 17:00: Film Screening

Day Two, Sunday 5th February
12:00: Archival Tactics #3 - Şirin Fulya Erensoy, (Re)Making History and (Re)imagining the Present through Archival Practices
13:30 - 14:30: Lunch
14:30 - 16:00: Archival Tactics #4 - Mohammad Shawky Hassan, 
16:00 - 17:00: Conclusion

Catering will be provided.
Workshop will be held in English.

Funded by Berliner Projektfonds Urbane Praxis