Proximities. Folded Readings on the Archival
Editors: Priyanka Basu, Naz Cuguoğlu, Ann Harezlak, Lama El Khatib, Sonja Mattes, Marie Schamboeck, Ting Tsou
Publisher: Haus der Kulturen der Welt
16 Pages, english edition
Color illustrations, folded paperback with insert
ISBN 978-3-00-071818-2
Free of charge
This publication draws upon various impulses, practices, and methods of the Whole Life Academy, offering as such an insight into a multitude of collective research processes produced and developed within the Academy’s nomadic curriculum.
The publication is occupied as a space in which the different contributions sit in close proximity, approach one another, overlap, converse, dialogue, and fold their specificities into one another. The publication’s format invites you to encounter it as a multi-layered object, juxtapose its various components, and form your own constellations of text, image, and concept.
The interdisciplinary, international Whole Life Academy is an experimental and collaborative initiative for on-going research and reflection on archival positions, infrastructures, and materialities.
Under the Waqwaq Tree
The Under the Waqwaq Tree catalogue features a series of letters between the exhibition’s curator, Naz Cuguoğlu, and her friend and collaborator, curator Mine Kaplangı. In the letters, they engage in an intimate exchange of longtime friends, interweaving personal stories with explorations of the artworks featured in Under the Waqwaq Tree. Together, they consider what we can learn from monsters, mythological creatures, and speculative fiction.
Catalogue for Under the Waqwaq Tree curated by Naz Cuguoğlu
Letters between Naz Cuguoğlu and Mine Kaplangı
Edited by Maxine Schoefer-Wulf
Designed by Tuğçe Evirgen Özmen
Printed by Colpa Press in San Francisco
40 pages
The Word for World is Forest
The Word for World is Forest features an interview with Sofía Córdova, an essay and instructions for growing a garden of plants indigenous to the Americas by Beatriz Cortez and Elizabeth Pérez Márquez, a text by Allison Smith about her ritual instruments featured in the project, field notes from Northern California burn zones by Gavin Kroeber, and essays by the curators, Fiona Ball, Naz Cuguoğlu, Chloe Kwiatkowski, and Orly Vermes. Order the exhibition catalog here or download a PDF.
Featuring works by Sofía Córdova, Beatriz Cortez, Candice Lin, Allison Smith, and Patrick Staff, the exhibition took place at the Wattis Institute. The Word for World is Forest centers around world-building and takes alternative ways of being as its point of departure. The project turns to artistic practices that demand their own agency in constructing the present and future. The work investigates how speculative thinking can challenge dominant narratives. By looking to ways of being that value living with allied species in a conscious symbiosis, the project imagines an alternative world of mutual respect, care, and survival. Córdova, Cortez, Lin, Smith, and Staff provide lenses for viewing time as malleable and circular—constructing a world where the future is, in fact, possible and within reach.
After Alexandria, the Flood
After Alexandria, the Flood brings together reflections on how knowledge gets organized, controlled, and absorbed into the digital and non-digital libraries, often resulting in an all-too-familiar information overflow. Edited by Gokcan Demirkazık and Naz Cuguoglu, and designed by Mert Gumren, the book features contributions by Simge Burhanoğlu, Serhat Cacekli, Sine Ergün, Lesli Jebahar, and Mine Kaplangi.
After Alexandria, the Flood is an outcome of the eponymous exhibition curated by Cuguoglu at 5533 and Recai Mehmed Efendi Library as part of Proto5533 between April 2 and 23, 2016. Inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’ short story “Library of Babel,” 1941, the show gathered works by Jorge Méndez Blake, Ekin Bernay, Eşref Yıldırım, Meriç Algün Ringborg, and Sultan Burcu Demir together in order to question who controls the flow of information and how we navigate and make choices amidst the overload of information in digital and non-digital libraries.
Special thanks to Ayşe Umur and Umur Publications for their generous sponsorhip for the printing of the book.
The book launch of "After Alexandria, the Flood" took place at SALT Galata on April 13th, with the participation of the writers and editors.
Between Places
“Between Places” is an anthology compiling reflections on how identity is made and performed through the movement of the self and/or experiences of places under transformation. Edited by Naz Cuguoglu and Susanne Ewerlöf, and designed by Erik Månsson, the book brings essays and artistic contributions by Fikret Atay, Hera Büyüktaşçıyan, Ferhat Özgür, Katarina Pirak Sikku, Liv Strand, Can Sungu and Lisa Torell together.
“Between Places” is an outcome of the artistic research project “IdentityLab”, initiated by Cuguoglu and Ewerlöf in Sweden & Turkey in 2016. The project consists of journeys, meetings and public programs to create a dialogue and sense of community among artists and researchers working on identity issues.
The book launch of “Between Places” and conversations on IdentityLab project and the book took place at SALT Galata on January 7th, and invited the audience to think about the relation between identity and place.
You can download the e-book of Between Places from the link below:
https://issuu.com/creativecukurcuma/docs/bp_issuu