Postgraduate Researchers
Sureyya Turkeli
Email: S.E.Turkeli@lboro.ac.uk
Biography
My PhD
Since registering on the PhD programme I reconsidered the scope of my proposed research and re-defined my research aims. My project was first defined as an exploration of postanarchist theory and, in particular, a critique of the euro-centricism of postanarchism. The proposal was to examine postanarchist treatments of the nineteenth century ‘classical’ anarchist tradition and to show that, whilst seeking to correct the faulty epistemological and teleological bias of traditional theory, postanarchists remained wedded to a conception of the anarchist past which was itself faulty. Postanarchists were ‘anti-modernist modernists’.
In the course of a number of discussions and, more especially, in the light of the feedback generated by my colloquium paper, I refocused this study. And instead of working within broad and contestable frameworks of modernism, postmodernism and anti-modernism, I decided that the bulk of the thesis shall present a historiography of anarchism. Thus it will provide the groundwork for the critique I initially envisaged. My approach will be a genealogical one.
Published work
Books (in Turkish)
novels
Postmodern Bir Kiz Sevdim (I Loved A Postmodern Girl, Mitos Books, 1993, 2nd edition, Ithaki Books, 2003),
Yasayip Olmek, Ask ve Avarelik Uzerine Kisa bir Roman (A Short Novel on Living and Dying, Love and Idleness, Sizofrengi Books, 1994),
Ur Lokantasi (The Tumor Restaurant, Varlik Books, 1999)
Kanlar Ulkesinde Karnaval (Carnaval in the Bloody Country, Inkilap Books, 2001, 2nd edition, Versus Books, 2006)
Viyana Nokta (Vienna Period, Versus Books, 2007)
short stories
Zaman Zeman Oykuleri (Stories of Time and Duration, Kabalci Books, 1995)
Hepimiz Gogol'un Palto'sundan Ciktik (We All Came Out of Gogol's Coat, Okuyanus Books, 2001)
Burusuk Arzular (Wrinkled Desires, Ithaki Books, 2004).
essays
Bagbozumlari (Vintages, On Culture, Politics and Everyday Life, with Rahmi Ogdul, Studyo Imge Books, March 2002).
Aranan Kitap (The Wanted Book, art-ist books, 2007)
edited by
Genc Sairler ve Yazarlar Kitabi (The Book of Young Writers and Poets, Kabalci Books, 1995).
Başka Bir Dünya Mümkün (Another World Is Possible, with Rahmi G. Ogdul, Studyo Imge Books, April 2002, Istanbul).
special issue of art-ist magazine (with Sezgin Boynik), Power, Consensus, and How Does Art React, Finnish Contemporary Art Special Issue (art-ist no 3, 2005).
User’s Manual, Contemporary Art in Turkey 1986-2006 (edited with Halil Altindere, art-ist books, 2007)
translations into Turkish
Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto,
Aldous Huxley’s Ape and Essence
Irene L. Gendzier’s Frantz Fanon: a Critical Study.
Writings in Turkish:
Published many essays, articles, reviews, short stories and art critiques in Turkish in various arts and culture magazines, and also in newspapers.
Writings in English
“The Photographic Pincushion”, Framework (Helsinki), No:2, 2004.
“Appropriating ‘Another World’”, The New Formulation (New York), winter spring 2004.
“Looking at the Face of the One Who Is Dying” Framework (Helsinki) No:3, 2005.
“Abu Ghraib: the Spectacle of Torture”, Anarchist Studies (London), 13:1, 2005
“A Hypertextual Approach to Finnish and Turkish Contemporary Art Gossip”, art-ist (Istanbul) in Power, Consensus, and How Does Art React, Finnish Contemporary Art Special Issue (ed. by. Evren & Sezgin Boynik, no 3, 2005).
“Free Kick for Everybody”, in Free Kick exhibition catalogue of 9th Istanbul Biennale, September 2005.
“The Man Who Could walk through in-between Positions” the Sarai Reader 06, Delhi 2006.
“Against the fabrication of ‘yes’ and ‘no’”, in Rejection Episode exhibition catalogue, Ghent, Belgium, December 2006.
“Twenty Years of the Black Flag in Turkey”, Fifth Estate (New York), Winter 2007 #374 (#3 Vol. 41)
“Parrhesiatic Games in the Turkish Art Scene”, Third Text (London), Volume 22 Issue 1, 2008.
In French
--“Abu Ghraib, le spectacle de la torture”, Réfractions, hiver 2005, numero 15.
In German
“Kollektive Amnesie als Projekt, Anmerkungen zur 9th Istanbul Biennale”, Springerin (Vienna) volume 11 no 4/volume 12 no 1, winter 2006.
“Parrhesia, Armut, Kunst; Der parrhesiastische Akt & der künstlerische Akt der Problematisierung von Armut”, Springerin (Vienna) volume 12 no 3, summer 2006
“Kanonbildende” und “sprechende”, Zeitschriften Medienuniversen und Magazinökonomien im türkischen Kontext, Springerin (Vienna), 4/2007.
In Albanian
“Kthimi”, Mehr Licht!, Nr. 29, 2006, Tirana.
In Czech
"Parrhesia, Poverty, Art," April 2007 in Host magazine, Prague.
Talks, Panel Discussions, Conferences:
Attended many talks, lectures and panel discussions in Turkey.
Also in English:
“Direct Democracy in Fatsa”, (with Rahmi G. Ogdul) paper presented in 'Libertarian Municipalism, An Anarchist Agenda for the 21st Century International/Interpolis Conference'held in Lisbon/Portugal on the 26th - 28th of August 1998.
“Hypertextuality in Turkish and Finnish Contemporary Art”, February 2004, Helsinki Academy of Fine Arts.
“An Alternative Web Dictionary”, in the 6th RAM workshop entitled "Social Interaction & Collective Intelligence" August 25th to 29th, 2004 Vilnius, Lithuania.
“Postanarchism and the Third World.” Presented as a part of the “Anarchism for the 21st Century” panels in the Political Science Association Annual Conference in University of Reading on the 5th – 7th of April 2006.
“Alternative Media Approaches”, presented in the international workshop “New political movements and practices” in Ljubljana, Slovenia, 21-22 April 2006.
“Art and Politics in Turkey”, a talk in the University of Delhi as a part of Documenta 12, 23 September 2006.
Literature Prizes
Varlik Magazine Story Award -1990
Inkilap Novel Award -2000
Curatorial Work:
Curated together with German artist and curator Stephan Kurr the show “Lock Your Mind” which took place in the gallery sox36 in Berlin and Apartman Projesi in Istanbul. “Lock Your Mind” was an exchange program between artists from Istanbul and Berlin. The whole exhibition program took part from August 15, until October 25 in both cities, Berlin and Istanbul and included 2 curators and 8 artists.
In-residency
In 2004, in conjunction with his collaboration with the magazine art-ist, Evren was in Helsinki (between the 15th of January and the 15th of March 2004) for a two months residency as a guest of HIAP and Frame.
Radio
Initiated a radio program with the same title Bagbozumlari (Vintages) on the prestigious broadcasting organization Acik Radyo (Open Radio) from Istanbul.
Art work:
an installation in the Young Activity Exhibitions in Istanbul in 1996, the work was titled 'Fast Motherland'
Right now, he is the editor-in-chief of a new magazine, titled Siyahi. Since October 2004, nine issues of Siyahi have been published in Istanbul. Siyahi is a platform for contemporary theory, culture, arts and politics related.