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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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!


Learning to Experiment, Sharing Techniques published in English
19. February 2023

Learning to Experiment, Sharing Techniques published in English

The introduction of our book Experimente lernen, Techniken tauschen was published in English. It is part of the wonderful collection First... Then, Repeat. Workshop Scripts in Practice by the Amsterdam-based collective Hackers and Designers. Thanks to Anja Groten for including us in this amazing book!

The text also includes the How-tos of Juli Reinartz, Feminist Health Care Research Group, Social Muscle Club and SenseLab/Brian Massumi. 

Check out the text as well as the entire book!


Publications

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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Learning to Experiment, Sharing Techniques
A Speculative Handbook

This speculative handbook offers a variety of techniques for radical learning and teaching. It includes specific instructions, experiences, and theoretical reflections. The texts participate in a conception of mediation that (re)introduces collaborative experimentation.

Learning and unlearning take place in the seminar room, in workshops, at festivals, in corridors, parks, and the city. The book includes texts and instructions on film essays, collages, bank robberies, the university of the dead, wild writing, conceptual speed dating, neurodiverse learning, format thinking, the theater of care, the writing lab, the body strike.

Design and typesetting: Ricarda Löser, Weimar
www.ricarda-loeser.de
Proofreading: Ivana Buhl
Printing: Buch- und Kunstdruckerei Keßler GmbH, Weimar

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Buchcover: Learning to Experiment, Sharing Techniques

Learning to Experiment, Sharing Techniques
A Speculative Handbook

Edited by Julia Bee and Gerko Egert
2020
ISBN: 978-3-00-066190-7

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