Archiv der Flucht / About the project
Archiv der Flucht
The Archive of Refuge was created as a digital memory site where (hi)stories of flight and displacement to Germany in the 20th and 21st century are preserved and reflected. Both East and West Germany (and the relationship between them) were influenced from the outset by the experience of people who had left everything behind and found refuge there.
Bridging In-between-ness as a Situation Space through Photography in the Sixtieth Anniversary of Migration
Besim Can Zırh
I believe that the main motive shared by these four exhibitions, focusing on different sequences of the long history of migration from Turkey to Germany on different occasions, is a semantic bridge. While visiting the exhibitions, the reactions of new generations with migration background suggest that they have developed a new understanding of a time that is now long gone yet determined [shaped] their own existence.
Towards a Migration Museum: Memory, Archive and Representation
Didem Danış
Migration is one of the main building blocks of societies. The fact that people have to leave their homes, sometimes alone or in groups, to go to other places leaves deep traces both in the communities of destination countries as well as in the countries left behind. In recent decades, as political and economic upheavals have deeply impacted the entire planet, forced migration movements have become even more significant.
Exiled Lives on the Stage: When Storytellers become the Story
Pieter Verstraete
I began my research from an expanded notion of “exile” as a special though ostracized position to be in, particularly for an artist, that allows for reflection on altering value systems in different national and urban contexts, be it politically, socially or artistically.
Two Names, A Thousand Places
Melis Cankara, Seçil Yersel, Sema Aslan
Thanks to Manifold, about a year and half ago, I became aware of the Sıla Gurbet project, and since then have been closely following some of its productions. Concepts of space, home, migration, belonging, language, harmony, memory, emotion and body form the backbone of the project. Undertaken by Sema Aslan and Seçil Yersel, the project seeks to find an answer to the question of what kind of space a name creates – as an element of identity – in the company of these concepts.
Migration in its “Voluntary” and “Involuntary” Incarnations
Sema Erder
What type of experience, do you think, would make an individual consider leaving the country they were born and brought up in? Whose language they spoke? Where they had friends and knew every corner by heart?
Issue 6 – Editor’s note
Red Thread Editorial Board, Erden Kosova
As red-thread.org, we participated in Archiv der Flucht with a workshop hosted by Depo and supported by the Goethe Institute Istanbul Branch, and following this workshop, we prepared the special dossier you are reading on our website.
Issue 5 Interview with Ahmet Ersoy
Zeyno Pekünlü, Ahmet Ersoy
In this episode of Red Thread Issue 5 interviews, Ahmet Ersoy, who contributed to the issue with his text titled “Neo-Ottomanism in the Age of Digital Media”, examines the effects of social isolation, estrangement and de-skilling experienced in the contemporary world and intensified through the pandemic.
Issue 5 Interview with Jelena Vesić and Vladimir Jerić Vlidi
Zeyno Pekünlü, Jelena Vesić, Vladimir Jerić Vlidi
In the first in the series of Red Thread Issue 5 interviews we present you with the extensive discussion with the issue editors Jelena Vesić and Vladimir Jerić Vlidi. Run by the artist and Red Thread Editorial Board member Zeyno Pekünlü, the interview covers the current global media context, particular geopolitical positions, and provides the connections with the texts selected for the Red Thread issue 5.
Propaganda (Art) Struggle
Jonas Staal
Various performances of power each aim to construct reality according to their interests, resulting in overlapping claims that shape the arena of the contemporary. What visual forms are taken by these manifold propagandas and the realities they aim to create? What kind of artistic morphologies and cultural narratives does the propaganda (art) struggle bring about?
