Nocturne

With a shift of light, things change.

A curtain becomes a ghost, colleagues become friends, the exchange of knowledge becomes shared thinking.

Nocturne is the state of night — nocturnal thinking, nocturnal writing, nocturnal discussion, nocturnal rehearsal, nocturnal gathering, nocturnal celebration, nocturnal plotting, nocturnal potentiality. The nocturnal is more than just a time of day for us. It is a situation or thisness, something that changes everything we do. At night, all we have begun during the day changes.

As a platform, Nocturne aims to provide a space and time for all those practices that emerge between institutions. A time in which the production and transmission of knowledge become collective practices, in which techniques of teaching become experimental procedures, and in which art and science do not enter into exchange but have already begun to work together in new ways.

We founded Nocturne as a place for projects of experimental knowledge production and transmission. The impetus and concern of this endeavor was and is the need for other formats and techniques of knowledge production and distribution. For a long time, the problems of the university and publishing landscape, as well as the art world, have been a recurring topic among colleagues and friends. These complaints, however, have often been accompanied not only by numerous proposals for how academic and artistic practices can come together differently, but also insights into how these have already been practiced differently for some time in seminars, reading groups, rehearsals, and in the studio. Nocturne is an evolving attempt to provide a platform for these alternative practices, to disseminate and strengthen them. For the moment, we have started with a speculative manual.

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New Publication: Spectres of Learning
25. February 2024

New Publication: Spectres of Learning

Spectres of Learning is a conversation in book form. It collects individual and collective learning experiences, their situations, and relationships that haunt us until today. The book is a conversation about informal learning spaces such as gardens, parties, kitchens, parks, and how they influence what we learn, how we learn, and how we want to learn. It is also a conversation about hierarchies and forms of exclusion. How and in which spaces have we learned and which spaces have made learning impossible? What relationships have been established in and through these spaces and how do they influence our daily experiences and actions?

The book is also an experiment in publishing: created with the chat-to-print tool Chattypub (Hackers&Designers), the book was produced and designed collectively. Thus, the book is not only the result, but itself the infrastructure of the collaborative work, learning and thinking that can be read in it.

Thank you Vierte Welt, Hackers&Designers, Topsoil Collective and Banana Copy for making this booklet happen!


Out Now: Garp Sessions: Documentation and Commissioned Works 2019-2022
14. September 2023

Out Now: Garp Sessions: Documentation and Commissioned Works 2019-2022

We are exited to announce a new publication on nocturne:

Garp Sessions: Documentation and Commissioned Works 2019-2022

Edited by Ayşe İdil İdil & Deniz Kırkalı

You can download the book here or order a copy by sending us an email.

Garp Sessions is a summer programme that was started in 2019 by Ayşe İdil İdil and Deniz Kırkalı. Taking place yearly in Babakale, a fishing town in Turkey, it brings participants together around different themes every iteration. Garp Sessions: Documentation and New Commissions 2019-2022 brings together texts and visual material from past participants Ada Özsar, Ali Yalgın, Amelie Wedel, Aslı Özdoyuran, Ayşe Draz, Burak Taşdizen, Cem Örgen, David Horvitz, Ekin Can Göksoy, Ezgi Tok, Ezgi Hamzaçebi & Lara Ögel, Gizem Karakaş, Larissa Araz, Maryam al Khasawneh and Ulufer Çelik, neither absent nor present participant Ayşe Köklü, as part of nocturne platform Gerko Egert, and a conversation between Garp Sessions and Fisun Yalçınkaya. It also features interviews with Cooking Sections, Knifemaker Doğan Tosun, and Babakale Beautification, Culture, and Solidarity Association. The book aims to create further opportunities for dialogue between past participants from different years as well as members of our extended Garp Sessions community. It documents and reflects on the sessions in Babakale, produces new works in response to these encounters, and includes voices from the village. In that sense, it is a documentation as well as it is a commissioning platform.


 
10. April 2023

Documentation published: The Radical Teaching Workshop

The booklet documents The Radical Teaching Workshop: Feministisch schreiben" which took place last September at Vierte Welt in Berlin.

With texts by Karolin Meunier and Gerko Egert.

We are working on a longer publication - stay tuned!


Publications

Spectres of Learning

Spectres of Learning is a conversation in book form. It collects individual and collective learning experiences, their situations, and relationships that haunt us until today. The book is a conversation about informal learning spaces such as gardens, parties, kitchens, parks, and how they influence what we learn, how we learn, and how we want to learn. It is also a conversation about hierarchies and forms of exclusion. How and in which spaces have we learned and which spaces have made learning impossible? What relationships have been established in and through these spaces and how do they influence our daily experiences and actions?

The book is also an experiment in publishing: created with the chat-to-print tool Chattypub (Hackers&Designers), the book was produced and designed collectively. Thus, the book is not only the result, but itself the infrastructure of the collaborative work, learning and thinking that can be read in it.

More information on Chattypub here.

The conversation is complemented by two texts by Gerko Egert and the collective topsoil (Sofía Villena Araya, Deniz Kırkalı and Amelie Wedel).

 

Access the publication online here.


The publication is part of gesellschaften, Vierte Welt Berlin and funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds.

 


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Buchcover: Spectres of Learning

Spectres of Learning

2023
Printer: Banana Copy, Düsseldorf
ISBN:

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Garp Sessions
Documentation and Commissioned Works 2019-2022

Garp Sessions is a summer programme that was started in 2019 by Ayşe İdil İdil and Deniz Kırkalı. Taking place yearly in Babakale, a fishing town in Turkey, it brings participants together around different themes every iteration. Garp Sessions: Documentation and New Commissions 2019-2022 brings together texts and visual material from past participants Ada Özsar, Ali Yalgın, Amelie Wedel, Aslı Özdoyuran, Ayşe Draz, Burak Taşdizen, Cem Örgen, David Horvitz, Ekin Can Göksoy, Ezgi Tok, Ezgi Hamzaçebi & Lara Ögel, Gizem Karakaş, Larissa Araz, Maryam al Khasawneh and Ulufer Çelik, neither absent nor present participant Ayşe Köklü, as part of nocturne platform Gerko Egert, and a conversation between Garp Sessions and Fisun Yalçınkaya. It also features interviews with Cooking Sections, Knifemaker Doğan Tosun, and Babakale Beautification, Culture, and Solidarity Association. The book aims to create further opportunities for dialogue between past participants from different years as well as members of our extended Garp Sessions community. It documents and reflects on the sessions in Babakale, produces new works in response to these encounters, and includes voices from the village. In that sense, it is a documentation as well as it is a commissioning platform. 

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Buchcover: Garp Sessions

Garp Sessions
Documentation and Commissioned Works 2019-2022


Edited by / Editörler: Garp Sessions (Ayşe İdil İdil & Deniz Kırkalı)

Published 2023
ISBN: 978-3-00-076019-8

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Zukunft, gefaltet
Choreographien des Als-Ob

„Gründet Werkstätten!“ ist eine mögliche Antwort auf die aktuellen Anforderungen, die gerade die Geisteswissenschaften dazu auffordern, sich in politische Diskurse einzuschreiben und diese darüber mitzuschreiben oder mitzugestalten. Unterbrechungen und Neuanschlüsse, das Kurzschließen und Öffnen linearer Fort-Schriften scheint uns hierbei ein möglicher Modus.

Zukunft, gefaltet. Choreographien des als-ob ist das für den Moment im Zeichenhaften stillgestellte Ergebnis einer kollaborativ-experimentellen Schreib- und Denkwerkstatt, an der elf Wissenschaftler*innen und Künstler*innen beteiligt waren. Angelehnt an das surrealistische Spiel Cadavre exquis waren die Mitschreibenden gleichsam Mitfaltende, Unterbrechende wie Unterbrochene: Ausformulierte Ansätze wurden, getaktet und gezeittafelt, fortgeschrieben, letzte Sätze eingefaltet weitergegeben und mitgerissen, woraus sich neue Anschlüsse, lose Enden und schlussendlich neun Textskulpturen ergaben, die die Signatur einer verzweigten Textagentur tragen. Agierende waren dabei nicht allein die Autor*innen oder die flüchtige Autor*innengruppe, sondern ebenso die Spielregeln, die Post und deren Irrwege, die lose im Dazwischen hängenden Anschlüsse, usurpatorische Würfelspiele und nicht zuletzt das Herausgeber*innen-Kollektiv, das als schaltende und verwaltende Instanz aktiv-passiv mitschrieb und (ver-)formte.

Gestaltung und Satz: Ricarda Löser, Weimar
www.ricarda-loeser.de
Korrektorat: Laura Kattwinkel
Druck: Buch- und Kunstdruckerei Keßler GmbH, Weimar
Umschlagherstellung: Buchbinderei Steinhagen, Weimar

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Buchcover: Zukunft, gefaltet

Zukunft, gefaltet
Choreographien des Als-Ob

Hrsg. v. Martina Bengert, Jörg Dünne und Max Walther
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-00-069803-3

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