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DESCRIPTION:ICM Film Screening and Conversation\n\nA screening of two films
  followed by conversation with filmmaker PINAR ÖĞRENCİ and ESRA AKCAN (Corn
 ell University). Moderated by IFTIKHAR DADI (Cornell University)\n\n \n\nGU
 RBET IS A HOME NOW (2020) Produced in collaboration with Esra Akcan and Hei
 de Moldenhauer and based on Akcan’s book\, Open Architecture.\n\nAŞÎT - THE
  AVALANCHE (2022)\n\n \n\nGurbet is a Home Now (2020) was produced in colla
 boration with Esra Akcan and Heide Moldenhauer and based on Akcan’s book\, 
 Open Architecture.  The film centers around the personal experiences and so
 lidarity amongst the women migrants and guest workers living in Kreuzberg. 
 Heide Moldenhauer\, one of the few female architects of the IBA project and
  her photographic archive from Landesarchive Berlin plays a central role in
  the reappraisal of a slice of Kreuzberg history that has remained in the s
 hadows. \n\n*The term “Gurbet\,” which does not have an exact English count
 erpart\, comes from the Arabic root “ğrb” and means being away and apart fr
 om homeland. The name “Gurbet Is a Home Now” is inspired by Aras Ören’s poe
 try collection Gurbet Değil Artık (Not ‘Gurbet’ Anymore)\, the last part of
  his Berlin Trilogy (1980). “Gurbet is a home now” expresses the transforma
 tion of the “place” that\, for the guest worker who came to Germany with pl
 ans to return to their homeland after a while\, was at first a foreign land
  and gradually became a home.  The film won Special Jury Prize of Documenta
 rist Film Festival in 2021.\n\n \n\nAşÎt ('The Avalanche') (2022) is a film
  inspired by Stefan Zweig’s final novella The Royal Game \,(Schachnovelle\,
  1941) a psychological thriller in which chess becomes a survival mechanism
  in the face of fascism.   The film is set in Öğrenci’s father’s hometown\,
  Müküs\,  an untouched spot within a mountainous region in southern Van\, o
 n Turkey’s border with Iran\, an area now home to an urban population of ma
 inly Kurdish speaking communities.   Müküs is known as Bahçesaray for the T
 urkish\, Moks for the Armenian and Müküs or Miksi for the Kurdish.\n\nAşît’
  refers both to the threat of avalanche that disconnects Müküs from the res
 t of the world and to 'Meds Yegher’ (The Big Disaster or The Great Catastro
 phe) in 1915.\n\n \n\nBiographies\n\nPınar Öğrenci is an artist and award-w
 inning filmmaker based in Berlin. Displacement\, migration\, survival\, and
  resistance are cornerstones of Pınar Öğrenci’s films and installations. Dr
 iving her works are difficult\, everyday struggles: the stories she hears\,
  observes\, experiences\, collects\, and documents from different geographi
 es. In earlier works\, Öğrenci followed the rarely-spoken stories of migrat
 ing communities around the Mediterranean\, the Aegean\, and in Berlin. She 
 has a background in architecture\, which informs her poetic and experientia
 l video-based work and installations that accumulate traces of ‘material cu
 lture’ related to forced displacement. Her works are decolonial and feminis
 t readings from the intersections of social\, political and anthropological
  research\, everyday practices\, and human stories that follow agents of fo
 rced migration.  Her works have been exhibited widely at museums\, art inst
 itutions\, and festivals\, including documenta fifteen 2022 in Kassel\, Ber
 linische Galerie (2023)\, 12th Gwangju Biennial (2018)\, 6th Athens Biennia
 l (2018)\, Sharjah Biennial13 (2017)\, Survival Kit (2019)\, Tensta Konstha
 ll Stockholm (2018)\, Württembergischer Kunstverein (WKV) Stuttgart (2017)\
 , MAXXI Museum\, Rome ( 2016)\, SALT Galata\, Istanbul (2015-6). Her first 
 solo exhibition abroad was realized at Kunst Haus-Hundertwasser Museum in V
 ienna\, “A Gentle Breeze Passed Over Us” in 2017.   \n\n \n\nEsra Akcan is 
 Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Architectur
 e and board member at the Institute for Comparative Modernities. Akcan's re
 search on modern and contemporary architecture and urbanism foregrounds the
  intertwined histories of Europe\, West Asia\, and Northeast Africa and off
 ers new ways to understand architecture's role in global\, social\, and env
 ironmental justice. She has written extensively on critical and postcolonia
 l theory\, racism\, immigration\, reparations and transitional justice\, ar
 chitectural photography\, translation\, neoliberalism\, and global history.
  She is the author of Architecture in Translation: Germany\, Turkey and the
  Modern House (Duke University Press\, 2012)\; Turkey: Modern Architectures
  in History (Reaktion/Chicago University Press\, 2012\, with Sibel Bozdoğan
 )\; Open Architecture: Migration\, Citizenship and the Urban Renewal of Ber
 lin-Kreuzberg by IBA-1984/87 (Birkhäuser/De Gruyter Academic Press\, 2018)\
 ; Abolish Human Bans: Intertwined Histories of Architecture (CCA\, 2022)\, 
 and co-editor of Art and Architecture of Migration and Discrimination (Rout
 ledge\, 2023\, with Iftikhar Dadi) Her book Architecture and Right-to-Heal:
  Resettler Nationalism in the Aftermath of Conflicts and Disasters is upcom
 ing from Duke University Press in 2025.\n\n \n\nIftikhar Dadi is the John H
 . Burris Professor in History of Art and resident director of the Institute
  for Comparative Modernities.  He teaches and researches modern and contemp
 orary art from a global and transnational perspective\, with emphasis on qu
 estions of methodology and intellectual history. His writings have focused 
 on modernism and contemporary art of South and West Asia and their diaspora
 s. Another research interest examines the film\, media\, and popular cultur
 es of South Asia\, seeking to understand how emergent publics forge new ave
 nues for civic participation. Publications include Lahore Cinema: Between R
 ealism and Fable (University of Washington Press\, 2022)\, a pioneering sch
 olarly examination of mid-century cinema from Lahore\; and Modernism and th
 e Art of Muslim South Asia (2010)\, which has been widely reviewed in acade
 mic and art journals and received the 2010 Book Prize from the American Ins
 titute of Pakistan Studies. Informed by postcolonial theory and globalizati
 on studies\, the work traces the emergence of modernism by selected artists
  from South Asia over the course of the twentieth century. More broadly\, i
 t offers a way of writing histories of nonwestern modern art by situating m
 odernism as transnational rather than located primarily within a national a
 rt history. Other publications include the edited volumes: The Lahore Bienn
 ale Reader 01 (2022)\; Anwar Jalal Shemza (2015)\; Art and Architecture of 
 Migration and Discrimination: Pakistan\, Turkey and their European Diaspora
 s (co-edited with Esra Akcan\, 2023)\; the co-edited catalog Lines of Contr
 ol (2012)\; and the co-edited reader Unpacking Europe(2001). His essays hav
 e appeared in numerous journals\, edited volumes\, and online platforms. He
  has received grants from the Andy Warhol Foundation\, the Getty Foundation
 \, the Mellon Foundation\, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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SUMMARY:Pinar Ogrenci\,  "Gurbet is a Home Now" and "AşÎt - The Avalanche" 
 Screening and Discussion
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 -asli-screening-and-discussion
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