Der transformierende Raum

A little throwback never hurt anybody! This was when Istanbul was still at national lockdown and we went to a historical bazaar known for its record labels back in the day.

Performer: Holger Maik Mertin
Director & Editor: Erol Adilçe & Bahar Kılıç Adilçe
Producer: Mutlu Yetkin
Project Scriptwriter: Ayla Kanbur
Production Manager: Alinahid Koçak
Co-Producer: Yunus Emre Tolan
Consultant: Cagla Demirbas
Cinematographer: Kerim Hacıoğlu
Sound Mixer: Baransel Boyraz
Graphic Designer: Hulusi Tütüncü
Special Thanks: Goethe-Institut İstanbul
Jochen Proehl
Emir Barın
Volker Kuehl

How was Istanbul lockdown like at the beginning of this year? The answer is in the next Sounds of Corona video 👇🏻

Performer: Holger Maik Mertin
Director & Editor: Erol Adilçe & Bahar Kılıç Adilçe
Producer: Mutlu Yetkin
Project Scriptwriter: Ayla Kanbur
Production Manager: Alinahid Koçak
Co-Producer: Yunus Emre Tolan
Consultant: Cagla Demirbas
Cinematographer: Kerim Hacıoğlu
Sound Mixer: Baransel Boyraz
Graphic Designer: Hulusi Tütüncü
Special Thanks: Goethe-Institut İstanbul
Jochen Proehl
Emir Barın
Volker Kuehl

We are all surrounded by things that seem to be reasonable and make sense. But is it really like that - do our living conditions make sense? Do cars make sense? Do roads make sense? Did this evolution take us further as a civilization?

"The (Recycling) Ball" is a collective participation of building and rolling the ball together. The ball is our unifying precious symbol - in making and rolling of the (recycling) ball we can transform trash into something important. We use materials found in trash to create an existing utopia space. Collecting, Building, Performing, Happening and finally Installing an interim sculpture.

Performers: Blend Bytyqi, Fjolla Hoxha, Flamur Ahmeti, Yann Perregaux, and Holger Maik Mertin
Construction: Enes Sahiti
Producer & Organizer: Florent Mehmeti, Daniela Markaj / Teatri ODA
Camera: Xhengis Maqedonci
Sound: Armend Shala
Editing: Atdhe Hoda
Graphic Design: Tobias Göbel
Social Media and Consulting: Cagla Demirbas
Idea: Holger Maik Mertin
Concept: Florent Mehmeti and Holger Maik Mertin
Contributors: The Freelance Waste Collectors of Prishtina

In cooperation with Goethe-Zentrum Prishtina (Kosovo), NRW (Germany), Teatri ODA (Kosovo), and HAPU - Festival i Artit në Hapësirë Publike (Kosovo).

To update last week's "The (Recycling) Ball" project: the ball disappeared after two days. It was a part of the concept and is the natural cycle of recycling, thus we knew that it would eventually happen. Us, the performers of the project, did something with trash and gave it a public appearance. We hoped that the waste collectors would do something with it. This completes the recycling cycle and is as important as the ball construction and the final performance itself.