HisTV
with“HisTV Collective.”
http://berlin.apartmentproject.org/projects/his-tv/
HisTV (Turkish = sentiment TV) is a fictional television station of artists who recently moved to Berlin from Turkey.
The HisTV Collective from the Apartment Project is looking for ways and means of mutual reflection, movement, departure, and decision-making through the production of various video work. Since 2016, censorship and strong political pressure have dominated Turkey, which has settled like a thick fog over freedom of expression and the established Turkish media.
The aim of collective work is to find a way out together, to communicate the seriousness of the situation, or to find new forms of expression. Over time, many Turkish and German artists such as Julia Lazarus, Sandra Schäfer, Fatma Belkis, Azra Deniz Okyay, Savaş Boyraz, Selda Asal, Emre Birişmen, and Florian Wüst contributed to the HisTV project.
This is a constantly evolving and ongoing project that was launched in 2016. HisTV consists of television shows, commercials, music videos, news, and public spotlights modeled after the mass media. However, HisTV's posts ironically approach these “role models” as they disassemble and distort their reality in response to the silence and violence of censorship - an issue that matters not only in our region but around the world is.
The news and footage compiled by the artists of “HisTV” relate to national and global issues as they are shaped with a strategy of blending the time and place of events, thus parodying current TV news arises. As a response to censorship and violence, as well as the resulting silence and speechlessness which prevail in the current geographical framework - but not only lingering in this area - humor is placed at the center of news production as a resistance strategy.
Exhibitions
“AARC#2” Ausstellung, Errant Sound, Berlin
“Condition Room”, Ausstellung, Apartment Project e.V. Berlin (Berlin Art Week)
“In The Blink of a Bird”, Ausstellung & Performance, nGbK, Berlin
“#disPlaced - #rePlaced 1”, Ausstellung radialsystem, Berlin
His TV programs the medium, which is under the influence/occupation of advertising and political rhetoric, anew by using creative, humorous, critical language. While it is based on the principle of reproducing contemporary memory in the same way, this form of creation forms a path that can also be followed after the exhibition.