__A Hack A Night #11____________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ __Our Own Private Pirate TV Session_____________________________________ with contributions/ performances from Serhat Köksal - 2/5BZ (.tr), Alexander Tuchacek (.at/.ch), Raffael Dörig (.ch), Adnan Hadzi (.uk) and !Mediengruppe Bitnik (.ch) Saturday, February 14th 2009, 19 p.m. Stiftung Binz39 - Sihlquai 133, 8005 Zürich, Switzerland http://www.binz39.ch - http://www.bitnik.org An evening of vicious audio, fierce visuals, elated air waves and flickering tv sets. Found footage, online videos and sound samples blend together for an audiovisual performance night in the name of the parasite: In his performance project «No Pipeline NO Exotic», the istanbul artist Serhat Köksal aka 2/5 BZ will illuminate the common cultural clichés between Orient and Occident; With «Paradise Now - The End» Alexander Tuchacek will reenact a moment in the history of Pop music in which the anarchic determination to create thrilled the cybernetic controll room into vibration; Raffael Dörig will intervene with video works; !Mediengruppe Bitnik will explain the set-up and use of a micro pirate TV station. The performances will take place simultaneously at the Binz39 and as a broadcast through the micro TV station for viewers in the vicinity. __Serhat Köksal aka 2/5 BZ: NO Pipeline NO Exotic_____________________ Serhat Köksal aka 2/5 BZ has continued to develop his multimedia project 2/5BZ, initiated in Istanbul in 1986, up until the present day, expressing himself in a wide range of media forms. In his audiovisual performances Serhat Köksal illuminates the common cultural clichés between Orient and Occident in a critical and humorous way employing collage and cut-up techniques, found film material, outdoor shots and samples. http://www.2-5bz.com http://www.myspace.com/2serhat5bz __Alexander Tuchacek: Paradise Now - The End__________________________ An attempt at a re-enactment On the 1st of March 1969, the singer Jim Morrison called the audience to participate through repetitive speech acts: Chaos broke loose, the stage nearly collapsed and the concert was abandoned early. With «Paradise Now - The End» Alexander Tuchacek sets out to trace moments in time when effective rules and existing boundaries are temporarily lifted; when the anarchic determination to create thrills the cybernetic control room into vibration. http://www.krcf.org/ __Raffael Dörig: The Artist, the Tube (and You)_______________________ Raffael Dörig will show and comment films and videos about and by artists who concern themselves with the televison media: Artists in dialogue with and about television set within a performance for the television audience at our studio and at home. http://www.interdisco.net http://www.shiftfestival.ch http://www.iplugin.net __!Mediengruppe Bitnik: Your Own Private Pirate TV Station____________ With various examples taken from the history of TV Hacking, !Mediengruppe Bitnik will illustrate the virtues of possessing your own private pirate TV station. http://www.bitnik.org/ // «A Hack a Day / Night» is an ongoing series of workshops and performances which !Mediengruppe Bitnik has been organising since 2007.

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