Please join for a listening session organised by Academy of Moving People and Images (AMPI) with Maryan Abdulkarim and Ahmet Öğüt on Wednesday, June 30th at 5–7pm. This event will be accessible via Zoom for everyone with registration.

This event looks at Alternative Structures and Educational Models where Maryan Abdulkarim will talk about pain and trauma as entertainment and what they teach us and Ahmet Öğüt “The Silent University / Towards a Transversal Pedagogy” as a case study.

Maryan Abdulkarim is Helsinki based writer and artist. Abdulkarim engages with and around themes regarding freedom. Abdulkarim is an AMPI lecturer for 2021-2022.

Ahmet Öğüt (b. in Silvan, Diyarbakir) lives and works in Amsterdam and Istanbul. Following Diyarbakir Fine Art high school, he completed his BA from the Fine Arts Faculty at Hacettepe University, Ankara, MA from Art and Design Faculty at Yıldız Teknik University, Istanbul. He works across different media and has exhibited widely, more recently with solo presentations at Kunstverein Dresden, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Chisenhale Gallery, and Van Abbemuseum. He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including Asia Society Triennial: We Do Not Dream Alone (2021); In the Presence of Absence, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2020); Zero Gravity at Nam SeMA, Seoul Museum of Art (2019); Echigo Tsumari Art Triennale (2018).

Academy of Moving People and Images (AMPI) is a platform in Helsinki founded by filmmaker Erol Mintaş for mobile people – those who have arrived in Finland for different reasons, be they immigrants, asylum seekers, students, or employees. AMPI aims to design a new learning model where people who have arrived in Finland from different backgrounds get to co-work/learn together. AMPI dreams to re-build a discrimination-free film industry. One of the main goals is to give space, resources, tools, and skills of filmmaking to mobile people.

Academy of Moving People and Images (AMPI) was invited by PUBLICS to organise a small gathering as part of Open Up cultural project and Parahosting Laboratory including listening and reading sessions and talks with cultural workers and independent non-profit initiatives. The idea is that by gathering different individuals and organisations together to listen to each other’s concerns and points of interest, institutional knowledge can grow wider, and more sustainable collaborative methods can be found. Open Up is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme.