remote control
The video is about the connection between various aspects of the political influence in the personal space and of the closer community. I interrogate within the realm of political engagement, feminist movements in the Kurdish context and reproduce the plurality of confluences through media. By switching between different media platforms and physical spaces I try to reveal political conflicts in the Kurdish region and align them with my experience of the aftermath of migration into germany. Like glimpses from an outer gaze, I direct into an observation from afar controlled by a tool that can switch on and off our contribution and attachment to the world. The TV becomes platform of escape and connection at the same time. Reframing questions about Identity through Quotes of Edouard Glissant’s poetics of relation I intent to reveal the possible adaptation in a diasporic context. Just as the scholar Dilar Dirik says: “it is not just a Kurdish issue, it is a regional issue, it’s an international colony…”