GEMAAL OP ZUID09 jul 2022
KNOCK KNOCK: VOCABULARY OF HOSPITALITY 2, public event #2 belit sağ An-sisters (raw)
KNOCK KNOCK: VOCABULARY OF HOSPITALITY 2
Publiek event #2
presentation by Leyla İleri-Razaki and belit sağ
Saturday July 9th, 2022, 15:00h.
Convened by Merve Bedir
Archives document exclusive and limited versions of history, and especially archives on work and labour represent histories that are predominantly male, European, and Christian. Labour is where the marginalised comes to the centre since 1960s in the case of the Netherlands, and our desire is to bring the knowledge and perspectives of the margin to the centre of our attention. What is excluded from the archive and what is unarchivable question the values and memories that are considered worthy of archiving. belit sağ’s work on documenting and centering the narratives of the female workers in the Netherlands is an investigation to the unarchived, but potentially also what is unarchivable and/or counter-archive, in the labour history in the Netherlands.
On 9 July at Gemaal op Zuid, we will gather with Leyla İleri-Razaki and belit sağ around the story of a strike by female workers in the small town Eerde in Veghel, placed in North Brabant in the Netherlands. This strike that Leyla was part of raises a question of the significance of the past and present. It tells us about negotiation, agreement, conflict, and internal struggles in work. It also makes us think that archival material can be produced and celebrated beyond the confines of the space through which archives are cataloged and stored. This conversation is part of belit sağ’s presentation “An-sisters (raw)” at Gemaal op Zuid, where she brings to the building a question of what counts as unarchived, unarchivable, counter-archive. The videos by belit sağ seek for commoning a counter-memory, while transforming, re-imagining, and re-iterating the public memory.
While we envision a complication and de-centring of the existing archives of labour history in the Netherlands, and celebrating the legacies of female workers, the unarchivability refers to the multiple social forces, and politics of labour, gender, and community in labour. Our focus is the languages that resist cataloging, and the practices that are linked to solidarity and temporality.
Leyla İleri-Razaki (1957) moved to the Netherlands together with her family in 1968, when she was 11 years old. Between 1977 and 1982, she worked as social advisor for East Brabant region at Stichting Welzijn Buitenlandse Werknemers. Between 1977 and 1979, she supported the worker women from Turkey at Gebr. Ploegmakers company in Eerde, Veghel, who were organizing for better work conditions. She is currently working as an independent translator.
belit sağ (she/they) is a videographer and educator based in Amsterdam. They studied mathematics in Ankara and audiovisual arts in Amsterdam. Her moving image practice is rooted in video-activist groups she co-founded in Turkey, such as karahaber and bak.ma. Their research-based artistic practice focuses on archival visual representations of violence and political conflicts. She has been a vocal opponent of censorship within Turkey, publishing a widely read anti-censorship statement in 2016.
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...the foreigner is first of all foreign to the legal language in which the duty of hospitality is formulated. They have to ask for hospitality in a language which, by definition is not their own, the one imposed on them by the master of the house, the host, the king, the lord, the authorities, the nation, the State, the father, … This personage imposes on him translation into their own language, and that’s the first act of violence.
Jacques Derrida, of Hospitality
Vocabulary of Hospitality: Knock Knock is about the vocabulary on migration that is instantiated in the city, revealing the intertwined (mis)conceptions of ‘host’, ‘guest’ and ‘hospitality’. The program researches the complexity inherent in the relationship between the ‘guest’ and ‘host’, which encompasses several obligations and tensions. When are the guest and the host strangers to each other? When do they become visitors? What are the thresholds of hostility between hosts and guests? In what context are they enemies or hostages of each other? When does the guest or the host become a ghost?
The presentation at Gemaal op Zuid dissects this complexity that is rendered visible in the urban space. Presentations by belit sağ, Merve Bedir, Philippa Driest, Suat Öğüt focus on the term “guest worker.” The Lichtkrant is programmed with sentences/statements on hospitality by Dubravka Sekulić, Banu Cennetoğlu, Marina Otero and others. Vocabulary of Hospitality: Knock Knock is convened by Merve Bedir, and is a desigual to Vocabulary of Hospitality (2015) in Istanbul, which was an investigation into the spatial vocabulary of illegalized migration in Turkey.
4 June 2022, 2pm.
DJ set ‘Heerbokelwegtapes’ by Philippa Driest,
Talk by Suat Öğüt on The Nameless Heroes
and open participation, conversation
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...the foreigner is first of all foreign to the legal language in which the duty of hospitality is formulated. They have to ask for hospitality in a language which, by definition is not their own, the one imposed on them by the master of the house, the host, the king, the lord, the authorities, the nation, the State, the father, … This personage imposes on him translation into their own language, and that’s the first act of violence.
Jacques Derrida, of Hospitality
'Vocabulary of Hospitality: Knock Knock' gaat over het vocabulaire van migratie, hoe die in de stad wordt toegepast en onthult de wirwar aan opvattingen en misverstanden rondom 'gastheer', 'gast' en 'gastvrijheid'. Het programma onderzoekt de complexiteit die inherent is aan de relatie tussen de 'gast' en de 'gastheer', die verschillende verplichtingen en spanningen omvat. Wanneer zijn de gast en de gastheer vreemden voor elkaar? Wanneer worden ze bezoekers? Wat zijn de drempels van vijandigheid tussen gastheren en gasten? In welke context zijn zij vijanden of gijzelaars van elkaar? Wanneer wordt de gast of de gastheer een spook?
De expositie in en rondom het Gemaal op Zuid ontleedt deze complexiteit die zichtbaar wordt gemaakt in de stedelijke ruimte. Presentaties van belit sağ, Merve Bedir, Philippa Driest, Suat Öğüt gaan in op de term "gastarbeider". De Lichtkrant aan de gevel van het Gemaal wordt geprogrammeerd zinnen/uitspraken over gastvrijheid van Dubravka Sekulić, Banu Cennetoğlu, Marina Otero en anderen. 'Vocabulary of Hospitality: Knock Knock' is samengesteld door Merve Bedir, en is een vervolg op Vocabulary of Hospitality (2015) in Istanbul, een onderzoek van Merve naar het ruimtelijk vocabulaire van illegale migratie in Turkije.
Publiek event #2
presentation by Leyla İleri-Razaki and belit sağ
Saturday July 9th, 2022, 15:00h.
Convened by Merve Bedir
Archives document exclusive and limited versions of history, and especially archives on work and labour represent histories that are predominantly male, European, and Christian. Labour is where the marginalised comes to the centre since 1960s in the case of the Netherlands, and our desire is to bring the knowledge and perspectives of the margin to the centre of our attention. What is excluded from the archive and what is unarchivable question the values and memories that are considered worthy of archiving. belit sağ’s work on documenting and centering the narratives of the female workers in the Netherlands is an investigation to the unarchived, but potentially also what is unarchivable and/or counter-archive, in the labour history in the Netherlands.
On 9 July at Gemaal op Zuid, we will gather with Leyla İleri-Razaki and belit sağ around the story of a strike by female workers in the small town Eerde in Veghel, placed in North Brabant in the Netherlands. This strike that Leyla was part of raises a question of the significance of the past and present. It tells us about negotiation, agreement, conflict, and internal struggles in work. It also makes us think that archival material can be produced and celebrated beyond the confines of the space through which archives are cataloged and stored. This conversation is part of belit sağ’s presentation “An-sisters (raw)” at Gemaal op Zuid, where she brings to the building a question of what counts as unarchived, unarchivable, counter-archive. The videos by belit sağ seek for commoning a counter-memory, while transforming, re-imagining, and re-iterating the public memory.
While we envision a complication and de-centring of the existing archives of labour history in the Netherlands, and celebrating the legacies of female workers, the unarchivability refers to the multiple social forces, and politics of labour, gender, and community in labour. Our focus is the languages that resist cataloging, and the practices that are linked to solidarity and temporality.
Leyla İleri-Razaki (1957) moved to the Netherlands together with her family in 1968, when she was 11 years old. Between 1977 and 1982, she worked as social advisor for East Brabant region at Stichting Welzijn Buitenlandse Werknemers. Between 1977 and 1979, she supported the worker women from Turkey at Gebr. Ploegmakers company in Eerde, Veghel, who were organizing for better work conditions. She is currently working as an independent translator.
belit sağ (she/they) is a videographer and educator based in Amsterdam. They studied mathematics in Ankara and audiovisual arts in Amsterdam. Her moving image practice is rooted in video-activist groups she co-founded in Turkey, such as karahaber and bak.ma. Their research-based artistic practice focuses on archival visual representations of violence and political conflicts. She has been a vocal opponent of censorship within Turkey, publishing a widely read anti-censorship statement in 2016.
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...the foreigner is first of all foreign to the legal language in which the duty of hospitality is formulated. They have to ask for hospitality in a language which, by definition is not their own, the one imposed on them by the master of the house, the host, the king, the lord, the authorities, the nation, the State, the father, … This personage imposes on him translation into their own language, and that’s the first act of violence.
Jacques Derrida, of Hospitality
Vocabulary of Hospitality: Knock Knock is about the vocabulary on migration that is instantiated in the city, revealing the intertwined (mis)conceptions of ‘host’, ‘guest’ and ‘hospitality’. The program researches the complexity inherent in the relationship between the ‘guest’ and ‘host’, which encompasses several obligations and tensions. When are the guest and the host strangers to each other? When do they become visitors? What are the thresholds of hostility between hosts and guests? In what context are they enemies or hostages of each other? When does the guest or the host become a ghost?
The presentation at Gemaal op Zuid dissects this complexity that is rendered visible in the urban space. Presentations by belit sağ, Merve Bedir, Philippa Driest, Suat Öğüt focus on the term “guest worker.” The Lichtkrant is programmed with sentences/statements on hospitality by Dubravka Sekulić, Banu Cennetoğlu, Marina Otero and others. Vocabulary of Hospitality: Knock Knock is convened by Merve Bedir, and is a desigual to Vocabulary of Hospitality (2015) in Istanbul, which was an investigation into the spatial vocabulary of illegalized migration in Turkey.
4 June 2022, 2pm.
DJ set ‘Heerbokelwegtapes’ by Philippa Driest,
Talk by Suat Öğüt on The Nameless Heroes
and open participation, conversation
---
...the foreigner is first of all foreign to the legal language in which the duty of hospitality is formulated. They have to ask for hospitality in a language which, by definition is not their own, the one imposed on them by the master of the house, the host, the king, the lord, the authorities, the nation, the State, the father, … This personage imposes on him translation into their own language, and that’s the first act of violence.
Jacques Derrida, of Hospitality
'Vocabulary of Hospitality: Knock Knock' gaat over het vocabulaire van migratie, hoe die in de stad wordt toegepast en onthult de wirwar aan opvattingen en misverstanden rondom 'gastheer', 'gast' en 'gastvrijheid'. Het programma onderzoekt de complexiteit die inherent is aan de relatie tussen de 'gast' en de 'gastheer', die verschillende verplichtingen en spanningen omvat. Wanneer zijn de gast en de gastheer vreemden voor elkaar? Wanneer worden ze bezoekers? Wat zijn de drempels van vijandigheid tussen gastheren en gasten? In welke context zijn zij vijanden of gijzelaars van elkaar? Wanneer wordt de gast of de gastheer een spook?
De expositie in en rondom het Gemaal op Zuid ontleedt deze complexiteit die zichtbaar wordt gemaakt in de stedelijke ruimte. Presentaties van belit sağ, Merve Bedir, Philippa Driest, Suat Öğüt gaan in op de term "gastarbeider". De Lichtkrant aan de gevel van het Gemaal wordt geprogrammeerd zinnen/uitspraken over gastvrijheid van Dubravka Sekulić, Banu Cennetoğlu, Marina Otero en anderen. 'Vocabulary of Hospitality: Knock Knock' is samengesteld door Merve Bedir, en is een vervolg op Vocabulary of Hospitality (2015) in Istanbul, een onderzoek van Merve naar het ruimtelijk vocabulaire van illegale migratie in Turkije.
