serhat köksal multimedia artist
serhatkoksal @ hotmail .com
2/5BZ, aka Serhat Köksal has worked as a multimedia artist with various releases in video, music and literary formats since 1991 and performed live audiovisual performances in 91 cities, 20 countries in festivals, art spaces, clubs and exhibitions in North America, Europa and Asia. In addition, he has numerous solo and participating exhibitions, curator and organized exhibitions, monthly radio programs, audio and video works with at universities, and workshops and the sales of the conceptual music produces in various countries, and there are music composed and consultancy to them for documentary films .
Serhat have interview with John Peel on 1994 for BBC World Service and have two times ”Peel Session” in BBC Radio 1 for his music and have interview about Turkish Pop Cinema on Channel 4 TV (Mondo Macabro television series 2001) and have selected in first wide ranging book about audiovisual art and VJ culture (D-Fuse) in 2006. & interview with ARTE TV (France and Germany) at Tracks Program in 2013 and 2022. Serhat co-curated, organized and initiator the International Roaming Biennial (Urban Jealousy) held in Berlin, Istanbul and Belgrade with the participation of 600 artists from all over the world and has performed his audiovisual performances at universities such as Akademi Der Kunste Berlin, Filmakademie Baden Württemberg, Leuphana University Lüneburg, HfBK Dresden Univercity, Potsdam University, in venues such as HKW (Haus der Kulturen der Welt), Martin-Gropius-Bau, Podewil Theatre, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Volksbühne, Melkweg, Paradiso, Vooruit, Leidseplein Theatre, New York East River Park,... art institutions such as ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medien), IFA (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen), ZK/U ((Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik),.. and international art festivals such as Transmediale, CTM, World Wide Video, Sonic Acts, Donau, Clandestino, Fusion, Bozar,,.. His works were invited to the 3 month Artist residency programs with grants in TESLA medien>kunst<labor (with collaboration Transmediale festival) and Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin and MuseumsQuartier Wien.
As a radio producer, he continues to broadcast his programs on reboot. fm ( Live from ACUD), with which he has been working together since 2004, in Berlin, on a monthly basis since 2010, and also produces monthly programs with residency on Movement Radio, within the Contemporary Cultural Institution of Onassis Stegi in Athens, since 2021.in Poland and Germany in 2022 and 2023 for Artist Residency (TRAFO), Solo Exhibitions and Audiovisual Performances.
2/5BZ performed " No Exotic No Touristik " audiovisuals of heterodox' plundered-roars, of Istanbulians and Anatolians, who were exposed to population engineering, as well as of those of the refugees and all of the glocal movements without any thoriental traditionalist simulation or hologram touch doctrine .
"Remake Exotic AI" project research official information and the relationship between official history and artificial intelligence that has been exoticized throughout history and making remake and re-document through sound and video.- musically, it is centered around the combination and confrontation of micro-tonal electronic sounds with the sounds of traditional instruments, criticizing global and micro colonialism. " Remake Exotic Reality" project started in 2006 during the audiovisual performance of the Transmediale festival at the Academy der Kunste and the Artist Residency "Tesla" program, and augmented with live gigs, texts, collages, radio programs in 2021, 2022, 2023, ..in Germany, Turkey, Poland,..