The Right to Color
In her curatorial practice, Naz Kocadere explores the ways artistic expression takes shape in language and within relations of power. Here, she shifts her focus from words to the materiality...
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A Superorganism Story or the Appetite of Matters
In the series Experiments and Stumbles on Collaboration, İpek Çınar writes about how coming together and being "we" gets built —and where it falters— through the experience of running an...
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Whistleblowing For Change: Disruption From Within
Whistleblowing actions have transformed our perception of surveillance and control in today’s information society. This text examines the effects of whistleblowing as a form of dissent on politics, society, and...
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Material as Personal Knowledge
When material sheds the instrumental approach of modernism and becomes a carrier of memory and knowledge, how does it speak to us? Starting from her family history extending to Northern...
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Without Ownership
Zeynep Okyay writes on the practice of PASAJ, the independent art space she has sustained for over fifteen years, with reflections on space, ownership, and the intricacies of being together....
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From Policy to Practice: Gender Equality in Arts and Culture Institutions
As part of the collaboration initiated by İMALAT-HANE and Orta Format around Leyla Suarez’s text Leyla Has No Use for Doubt, we organized a gathering consisting of two closed sessions...
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Between Aesthetics and Politics
Merve Ünsal revisits the concept of “estetik politika” through four possible translations: the aesthetics of politics, the politics of aesthetics, aesthetics as politics, and politics as aesthetics. Focusing on moving...
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Both Grace and a Crime: Between Love and Entrapment in Care Work
Beginning her text with a fable on care work in the context of contemporary art, Kübra Aycan Gelekçi underlines the historical invisibility and continuity of women’s labor. Beyond its emotional...
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As If Everything Were In Our Hands
Sevgi Ortaç examines the intersections between bostans, food communities, and contemporary art, drawing on her personal and collective experiences. Blending an academic and artistic perspective with active involvement in networks...
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Leyla Has No Use For Doubt
In this text, Leyla Suarez constructs a narrative that moves between incompleteness, confrontation, and solidarity; she reflects on the fractures created by personal loss, abandonment, friendship, and experiences of sexual...
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Between Art, Power, and Negotiation: In Search of the Scale’s Counterweight in Participatory Art
In this text on participatory art, artist and researcher İpek Çınar examines both the fundamental character of this mode of production and reminds us that it is a terrain constantly...
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Artists’ Imaginary Zones
Eda Yiğit examined the examples of the historic Tokatlıyan Han—transformed into a living space for artists and offering experiences worth remembering—the Tarlabaşı Monastery, which, although still standing, has lost its...
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