Review with Elif Satanaya Özbay & Jazmina Figueroa
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Join us for a reading with Elif Satanaya Özbay & Jazmina Figueroa at Uqbar.
ABA
Air Berlin Alexanderplatz
Invitation to Review
15 December at 19:00–21:00 Uqbar, Schwedenstraße 16, 13357 with readings by Elif Satanaya Özbay & Jazmina Figueroa
A review accounts for all facets of evaluation, critique, appreciation, study, and assessment. Decide on only after giving it a second or third, round-a-bout and lingering once-overs. After cursory perusal, one makes up one’s mind becoming something recast, refashioned, and/or redone. The subject, idea, or topic then undergoes a string of repeated examinations when it’s re-met with a situation, event, or change. This suggests a successive process, revisited and/or scrutinized multiple times, and in running order.
The review serves as a throughline connecting the readings presented by Elif and Jazmina at Uqbar’s project room on December 15, 2023. The presentation comprises fragments of unfinished, and/or complete ideas that are subject to review. Rising and slipping in form, rehash, or as articulated phrases, the readings presented are inspired by their recent individual developments in their works, exchanges, and research. The evening revolves around the con-textual, of marking and taking stock. A year in review, a life, lineage, canon, and series.
Jazmina Figueroa is a writer based in Berlin. Elif Satanaya Özbay is an Amsterdam-based artist working with text, performance, and [removed];
Supported by Mondriaan Funds
ABA RESIDENTS
Elif Satanaya Özbay is a Turkish-Circassian artist whose performance and research-based works revolve around diasporic nostalgia within the horror framework.
Özbay combines references to ancient Circassian myths, contemporary entertainment, and Turkish folklore to initiate autobiographical pieces. These pieces are then further interwoven with fictional elements through the use of mind maps. A certain striving for accessibility is an integral part of the work: most of her themes relate to the populations, that, after traumatic events—such as displacement and ethnic cleansing—live in the diaspora.
Julia Nusser lives and works in Switzerland. She has presented solo and in her duo practice Nusser Glazova installations, video works, and performances in institutions and spaces such as Centre d’art contemporain, Geneva; Kunsthalle Zürich; Kunsthalle Bern; Longtang, Zürich; le commun, Geneva; Wallstreet, Fribourg; Palazzina, Basel; Borgenheim Rosenhoff, Basel; Künstlerhaus Bregenz. With Nusser Glazova she was nominated for Prix Mobiliare and realized a public artwork that was commissioned by Kanton Zürich. Julia also worked as a co-curator in the art space Wynx Club in Zürich.
Tereza Glazova, born in 1996 in Riga and now based in Zurich, does both solo work and collaborates with Julia Nusser in the duo Nusser Glazova. She employs the pseudonym Tereza Auslettland for her writings and engages in sound projects using aliases such as Mia Thermopolis and just a girl. She is the co-founder of the art space Wynx Club and the event label Forever Unblocked.
Downpour Reverie is a musical hug for heavy rain, with 20 fervent tracks handpicked by the artist to plunge you into the emotional spirit when the sky pours its heart [removed];Listen here
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