A collaboration between Theater Rampe and Akademie Schloss Solitude as part of the event » ARTISTIC POSITIONS IN CONTEXTS OF VIOLENCE«
Credits: Courtesy of bak.ma archive, 2025
bak.ma archive collective collects and organizes audiovisual media, including activist recordings, feature documentaries, and raw footage from Turkey and beyond.
Two collective members Bilge Emir and Özge Çelikaslan present a performative installation combining archival footage, live drawing, and text as part of the event KÜNSTLERISCHE POSITIONEN IN GEWALTKONTEXTEN at Theater Rampe.
Using footage from the bak.ma online media archive of social movements, they focus on migration as both a personal and collective experience. The interplay of video installation, hand-drawn interventions, and spoken text creates a layered reflection on displacement, borders, and memory deconstructing historical narratives through a live, evolving performance. Weaving past and present images with real-time artistic intervention, their performative installation invites the audience to engage with shifting landscapes of migration and resistance.
A collaboration between Theater Rampe and Akademie Schloss Solitude.
At the end of the evening, there will be a joint discussion with all participating artists.
Özge Çelikaslan’s visual and academic works focus on counter-media narratives, overlooked moving image artifacts, and archival gaps through orphan images. She completed her PhD in media studies at the Braunschweig University of Art, Braunschweig/Germany, where she conducted extensive research on archives as commons. She has produced testimonial videos, documentaries, and experimental videos that have been exhibited in art institutions, festivals, and biennials. In 2014, she co-founded the bak.ma social movements digital media archive, where she remains an active member. Her monograph Archiving the Commons: Looking through the Lens of bak.ma was published by dpr-barcelona in 2024.
Bilge Emir works in illustration, design, and video. She is a graduate of the MA Visual Communication at weißensee school of art and design berlin/Germany and has been based in Berlin since 2017. Her work explores the intersections of power structures, visual representation, and the politics of imagery. Her works have been featured in numerous anthologies, magazines, and independent or self-published projects, as well as exhibited in group shows at venues such as SAVVY Contemporary, the neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK), Galerie im Turm, and Lantz’scher Skulpturenpark in Düsseldorf/Germany. Besides her solo work, she values collective production and self-organized practices.
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