ARTISTIC



Artistic Direction, Müzede Sahne, Sakıp Sabancı Museum, June 17th-20th 2023
Voice-over, Pluriversum, a RanGBarang (RGB) Studio Production, Author/ Artistic Director/ Graphics: Parisa Karimi
Director, Nuh’un Gemisini Aramak, Co-production project, produced by ENKA Sanat, premiered on November 15th within the scope of the IKSV Theatre Festival.
Co-director with Nezaket Erden, N’olcak Bu Yusuf Umut’un Hali, a Hemhâl theatre production, original text by Hakan Emre Ünal and Alis Çalışkan performed by Hakan Emre Ünal. 
Conception & Direction, A performative exhibition tour, Life, Death, Love and Justice exhibition, Curators: Didem Yazıcı, Peter Sit, Burcu Çimen, December 2022
Artistic Direction/Project Design, Performlab, Beykoz Kundura, 2021
Artistic Direction with Marlin de Haan, and in this very moment, 2021
Conception and Moderation, Sahneye Dair Sohbetler, 2020-2022.
Direction of the staged reading Gece Vardiyası (Night Shift) by Marco Demian Vitanza, translated into Turkish by Ferdi Çetin, and after talk with the playwright as part of GalataPerform’s 9th New Text New Theatre Festival.
Direction Türkan Hanım’ın Ölümü (Death of Miss. Türkan) a theatrical story reading, adapted by Hemhâl from Selçuk Baran’s story “Türkan Hanım’ın Ölümü”’ commissioned by and performed at Yapı Kredi Kültür Sanat, 2021.
Conception & Direction in collaboration with Marlin de Haan panorama radio a theatrical situation, inviting participants to take a journey in cars; coproduced by FFT, Dusseldorf; funded by Kunstiftung NRW, Ministerium fur Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes NRW, NRW Landesburo Freie Darstellende Kunste. Presented in Istanbul, Düsseldorf, Bonn, 2019.
Dramaturge Tırnak İçinde Hizmetçiler (The Maids in Quotes), a Hemhâl theatre production, original text by Hakan Emre Ünal inspired by Jean Genet, 2018.
Conception & Direction in collaboration with Marlin de Haan, Once I set foot outside a performative installation by Marlin de Haan and Ayşe Draz; coproduced by A Corner in the World X belontiids ALT, Istanbul and FFT, Dusseldorf; funded by Kunstiftung NRW, Institut fur Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa), Ministerium fur Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes NRW, NRW Landesburo Freie Darstellende Kunste. Shown in Istanbul and Düsseldorf, 2018.
Performer & Assistant Director, İKİ (TWO) concept and direction by Semih Fırıncıoğlu
Produced by A Corner in the World X bomontiada ALT + Guest Program. Shown in Istanbul, at Bomonti ALT and Yapı Kredi Kültür Sanat, and in Heidelberg Stückemarkt, 2018.
Performer & Regie Assistant Becoming a Rhinoceros 2.014 written and directed by Şahika Tekand, 2018.
Dramaturge, Hiatus, by choreographer Gizem Bilgen, 19th Istanbul Theatre Festival
Performer, Shortening the Long Position, by the artist duo Goldin & Senneby for the 13th Istanbul Biennial organized by IKSV, Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts
Assistant Director, How to Forget in Ten Steps: Anti-Prometheus written and directed by Şahika Tekand as part of Promethiade Project by Stiftung Zollverein, Essen’ RUHR.2010 & Istanbul 2010 & Athens Festival, Athens, 2010.
Artistic Collaboration & Residence Air (Hava), by Ayşe Orhon, Looping 2, Tanz im August, 2010.
Actress, Dönme İstanbul a short film by Jacopo Mario Gondolfi and Luis Miguel Selvelli, 2008.
Artistic collaboration, agoraphobia, performative text, in collaboration with docu:mentalKLİNİK, art-ist contemporary art magazine, May 2007.
Artistic collaboration, ccidRnt, performative text, in collaboration with docu:mentalKLİNİK , Colophon 2007, International Magazine Symposium, Luxembourg.
Artistic collaboration, Image/Imagine, enjoy the silence…, performative text in collaboration with docu:mentalKLİNİK, Nico Magazine: Interviews & Fashion, Spring/Summer 2007.
Performer, Eurydice’s Cry directed by Şahika Tekand, 15th International Istanbul Theatre Festival / 4th International Theatre Olympics

EDUCATION / WORKSHOPS



PUBLICATION


Gösteri Sanatları Yazıları, Art Unlimited, 2018—...
Author, Performans Sanatı ve Performatif Belgelemeye Dair, Yapı Kredi Yayınları, Sanat Dünyamız, Sayı: 174 Ocak Şubat 2020.
Author, Performatif Belgelemeye Dair, Dikmen Gürün’e Yazılar, Doğan Kitap, 2020.
Author, Mapping Turkey 2019, commissioned report on theatre in Turkey, based on 2011 mapping by Mark Levitas, by the Dutch.
Author, Performing in a Landscape of Forgetting, published in Theatre Research International, Volume 44, no.3, pp 311-313, October 2019.
Co-author, Yirmi: 1989’dan Bugüne İstanbul Tiyatro Festivali published by IKSV celebrating the 20 years of the Istanbul Theatre Festival, 2017.
Editor, mentalKLINIK’s exhibition book That’s Fucking Awesome published by GALERIST, 2012.
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