This event will take on a special form with shorter presentations by the guests followed by a roundtable discussion co-chaired by Leyla Sünnenwold and Pırıltı Onukar. The session will also include interactive exercises led by Eğrikavuk and Hassanain and there will be plenty of room for questions and exchange with the ASCA and ARRG community.

Speakers

Dr. Işıl Eğrikavuk is a Turkish-born international artist and academic based in Berlin, Germany. She received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and a Ph.D. in Communication from Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey. Egrikavuk lives in Berlin and works as a faculty member at Berlin University of Arts (UdK) since 2017. Egrikavuk is the co-winner of Turkey’s first contemporary art prize, Full Art Prize in 2012. She is the founder of the other garden, a collaborative artistic research space that focuses on issues around ecology, diversity, inclusivity and radical care within the UdK.

Ola Hassanain leads a critical spatial practice as a visual artist with architecture training.  Ola premises her work on an idea of “space as political discourse” an expanded notion of space, that tries to develop a spatial literacy which can aid us to imagine different political ecologies. Ola’s development of critical spatial practice is partly informed by her post-academic training;  an ongoing Rijksakademie residency, a BAK fellowship 2017-2018, teaching and development of the Blackerblackness Master course Sandberg Instituut 2021- 2023, teaching at  HKU University of the Arts Utrecht at the Fine Art Department, amongst other international collaborations like Chicago Architecture  Bienniale 2019 and Sharjah Architecture Triennale 2019.