PAST SELECTED TALKS, WORKSHOPS
TALK at KABK 9 January 2020
On the most powerful catalyst on the planet
2019
HNI Thursday Night Live, Reading Matter, 14 March 2019
https://thursdaynight.hetnieuweinstituut.nl/en/activities/reading-matter
Atoms and particles, rare earth minerals and hybrid composites, precious metals and microwaves, matter is commonly perceived as a passive commodity ought
to be mobilised to become material. But when approached through a lens of human productivity, only certain facets of matter get recognised as valuable part of the market. In this event, Evelina
Domnitch will address strategies for expanding the human perception of the material forces and agency of matter, from chemical and quantum to micro-gravitational. Through performative environments
and phenomenological experiments that exceed the scope of applied science and challenge the disciplinary boundaries, Domnitch invites to rethink the nature of human relationship with matter.
Using material and the concept of conductivity as a lens, Füsun Türetken will explore a range of instances where conflict and capital can be read through matter, more precisely metal. Acknowledging
‘metal as conductor of all matter’, her work proposes a theory of the complicity of metals as quasi-agents that influence and register events, and addresses metal’s role in shaping the world of
finance, belief systems, geopolitical relations, (digital) bodies, even the stratosphere and the ‘climate-engineered’ weapons. Türetken will screen her latest film ‘Alchemic Desire’, which examines
the parallels between the practice of trading metals at the world’s biggest physical metals exchange, the London Metal Exchange (LME), deleuzo-guattarian models of psycho-social dynamics, and the
practice of alchemy.
Talk at Fault Lines, Design/Research Symposium KABK/Leiden University, KABK Auditorium, The Hague, 14 December 2018 Click here
Master students at Dutch Design Week October 2018
Lecture at Building Diversity, TU Delft Conference, 16 May 2018
a workshop and discussion forum on the representation of gender, sexuality, ethnicity and disability in architectural education, practice and research
https://www.buildingdiversity.org
Workshop Xenofeminismarchitecture 3/4 May 2018 at Het Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam
Click http://www.artefact-festival.be/en/rare-earth-stories-below, February 2018
Publication Interiors of Memories: A study of personal memories based on the works of Luigi Serafini and Georges Perec
http://interstices.aut.ac.nz/ijara/index.php/ijara/article/view/253
2017
Film Alchemic Desire at IMPAKT Festival Utrecht, Oktober 2017
Film Alchemic Desire at EYE Film Museum Amsterdam, Fibre Festival, 9th May, 19.00
Click here
Radio Interview, De Brakke Grond, Saturday, 13th May, 11.00
Füsun Türetken, Modern Love, Love in the age of online dating with Tamar Shafrir.
Jajaneeneeradio.
How the Swipe right-the algorithm- is replacing Cupid's arrow.
http://2017.fiberfestival.nl/programme/fusun-turetken/
2016
2015
Lecture at NEEDS - The First Northern European Conference on Emergency and Disaster Studies
Discussing Slow Violence, Environtalism, NYC Response and Safeguard after WTC Collapse, 9 to 11 December 2015,
University Copenhagen. Thanks to Peer Illner
http://changingdisasters.ku.dk/calender/needs
Malta Smallcinemasmalta, Panel Spatial Encounters, "Cubical Warriors, on Drone Warfare, In Theatre, and Interior",
24-26 September, 2015. Thanks to
Charlie Gauchi, Bettina Hutschek and Tom van Malderen
Füsun Türetken and Max Bruinsma, Openset Dutch Design Summer School
"Designing experience: moment, stage, memory", workshop 26 July to 8 August 2015, Rotterdam
Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Füsun Türetken presenting a performance lecture
at Göteborg International Biennale for Contemporary Art, Speak Easy,
4 September 2013, Göteborg, Quai of Broken Dreams. More on www.GIBCA.se
Füsun Türetken with Burak Arikan Mapping Relations of Funding and Knowlegde
at Former
West. Documentations, Constellations, Prospects. 18-24 March 2013.
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.
Strand: Infrastructure
Video of talk here
2012
Architecture and Ideology II: How to intervene
Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin
22 September 2012
Ideologies leave their mark not just on certain forms of government and political systems (of thought). In fact, the values and convictions of a society follow the concrete structures of people's everyday lives. Buildings and roads, living and working quarters in a city influence not only milieu and habitus but also the attitudes and morals of their inhabitants. In three panel discussions, architects, city planners and curators address the multi-faceted relationships between architecture, ideology and art.
With Florian Köhl (fat koehl Architekten), Andreas Müller (Architect), Füsun Türetken (Artist, Architect), Francesca Ferguson (Curator) Chair and curator: Valerie Smith
My thanks to Valerie!
Bossing Images
May 4, 2012: Ecstatic Bodies
Are bodies playgrounds for images? Or rather their means of transport? How do bodies become ek-static? How do they cross through fields of power? Invited guests: Elodie Pong’s video Je Suis Une Bombe (2006), Jakob Lena Knebl, Tim Stüttgen.
Bossing Images is a project of the Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, organized by Antke Engel and Jess Dorrance (Institute for Queer Theory) in cooperation with Renate Lorenz.
11am, 17 May 2012
Collateral Event to Dak'Art
Lecture 'The life cycle of iron ore'
Füsun Türetken, Victor Mutelekesha
Dak'Art Biennale. Raw Material Company . Centre for Knowledge, Art and Society. Dakar, Senegal
Special Thanks to Koyo Kouoh
Guest at 'Expert meeting Revisiting Cultural Diversity and the Art System' at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam
Monday April 16, 2012
With Nana Adusei-Poku, Defne Ayas, Jay Koh, Vivian Sky Rehberg, Mark Terkessidis, Füsun Türetken and others.
Talking Eyes Lecture Series