temporary dialects e.v. is a collective based on intuitive, associative and collective work at the intersection of art and politics founded in offenbach am main in 2018. through different event formats such as exhibitions, talks, and screenings, td aims to connect and bring together positions and thoughts in all their
complexity and inspire deconstructive forms of thinking. the focus is on intersectional feminist, post-migrant and decolonial perspectives.

Bridges Through my Window Festival, 2021

In her poem „Bridge Through My Window“ from 1966, Audre Lorde uses the metaphor of a bridge that juts out of the window to show her longing for union with another body. Despite the supposed lack of energy, there is an urge to unite with a sister. What follows, is a utopian trip to a deserted country, without a specific place, a specific time. But our reality is that we are in a specific place and a specific time. We exist in a world full of things contradicting. Racism, violence, death, trauma, barriers and at the same time love, resistance and care. We long to share and connect between experiences and various realities. A bridge – a fragile inbetweenness – to reach out, overcome the barriers, tell and hear stories. Stories of existence and resistance. How can we build new bridges? What material do we need for this? “Bridges through my window” is a project that seeks to discuss forms of how new connections and alliances can be made. Together we want to go to places where stories and experiences have been made invisible, where potentials are hidden. In order to understand how we can hold together and persist, we want to infiltrate, traverse and cross the borders set by the European fortress.

Funded by the Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst and Kulturstiftung der Städtischen Sparkasse Offenbach am Main.

Artists & Artworks:

Joana Tischkau “Colonastics”
Diane Izabiliza “The wall fell on our heads”
Cana Bilir-Meier “This makes me want to predict the past”
Sharon Jamila Hutchinson “TITIA”
Aslı Özdemir “maiden name”
Nejbir Erkol “Çukur”
Selma Selman “Superposition”, “Mercedes Matrix”

Talks & Workshops:

“The wall fell on our heads”, but we don’t let ourselves be crushed. Alliances and self-organizations today and then. Conversation with Nuran Ayten & Diane Izabiliza.
“Through and with our mothers” with Arootin Mirzakhani & Aslı Özdemir
„un_cultured – somatic fermenting“ with Arootin Mirzakhani
Radical feelings with Rüzgâr Buşki
Undercommon Sense – Black Collectivity on a white Ground with Feven Keleta, Neromun & JuJu Rogers “let them frames fall apart” Correspondence between Sharon Jamila Hutchinson & Elif Muhit
“A 100 year Plan” with Selma Selman
“Çukur / Hole” conversation between Ece Gürleyik & Nejbir Erkol
“Predicting the past” with Cana Bilir-Meier, Aleyna Osmanoğlu und Sosuna Yıldız
“Hanau, NSU & NSU 2.0 – Racist Continuities and Antiracist Resistance in Hesse” with Ayşe Güleç & Gözde Saçıak

Screening of Duvarlar–Mauern–Walls with Can Candan, 2019

2019 is the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. On the occasion of this anniversary, temporary dialects organized the screening of Duvarlar - Mauern - Walls (2000) by Can Candan. Candan’s film is a trilingual documentary (Turkish, German and English) that deals with the fall of the Berlin Wall from the perspective of the Turkish immigrant community in Germany. In the period following the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification, 1991 in particular was marked by increasing xenophobia and racist violence. 1991 is also the year that marks the 30th anniversary of Turkish migration to Germany. In the film, Candan interviews Berlin citizens with migration histories and talks to them about their past, their present and how they envision their future in a united Germany. The screening was followed by a discussion with director Can Candan. Candan lives and works as an independent filmmaker and professor at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. He is a founding member of docIstanbul, a center for documentary film studies.

In collaboration with the Anne Frank Bildungszentrum on the occasion of the exhibition “Anderen wurde schwindelig. 1989/90: Black, Jewish, Migrant - Special exhibition on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall” and with the kind support of the Kulturamt Offenbach am Main.

Screening of #resistayol with Rüzgar Buşki, 2018

An evening of shared possibilities, chance encounters in Offenbach’s local pub Lili Eck Bar where locals, artists, students and onlookers, viewers and doers merge. In June 2016, a documentary film was shot by Rüzgar Buşki, showing Istanbul’s LGBTI scene caught up in reflections of the Gezi Park movement. In winter 2018, td invited director Rüzgar Buşki to Offenbach to screen his film and give a lecture to the guests. During the film screening, mercimek soup was prepared and served, creating an atmosphere of togetherness and inviting everyone to have space and time to “eat” together.