Pelin Tan
Day 3: New Perspectives on Climate and Commonality
Perspective 6 – 7 November 2021
Pelin Tan, Senior Researcher, Center for Arts, Design and Social Research, Boston; Professor of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Batman University, Turkey.
Abstract
Field as Entanglement and Transversal Methodology in Decolonial Practices.
How can we expand spaces of beyond collectively? What are the strategies of solidarity against dispossession? What is the role of infrastructure as geontological tactics [JW1] in a certain territory? Since 2013, with my research collective Arazi in Southeast Turkey, I have been working on both common and individual interests around the question of how the extractive project of neoliberalism, capitalism and militarism is functioning through spatial infrastructures, and how artistic and architectural methodologies bring to the surface different narratives and empirical patchworks. We have several scales of research such as, for example, housing, the village, the town, the border, the water dam, stone companies[JW2] , military zones, the river, a seed… A territory holds many histories, and where [JW3] ontologies of humans and non-humans are entangled. Many reasons, such as forced evictions, structural violence, the urbanization process, agrarian unproductivity, and migration policy, continuously shape and form these places, not only the villages and towns themselves but also their relations/network. The presentation will look into artistic and non-institutional practices of transversal methodologies.
Biography
Pelin Tan, Senior Researcher, Center for Arts, Design and Social Research, Boston, Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Batman University, Turkey.
Pelin Tan, Sociologist/Art Historian, Professor at the Fine Arts Faculty, Batman University, Turkey. Senior Researcher of the Center for Arts, Design and Social Research (Boston), Researcher at the Architecture Faculty, Thessaly University, Greece. Sixth recipient of the Keith Haring Art and Activism Award[JW4] . Lead Author of the report of Cities of the International Panel of Social Progress (Cambridge, 2018). Tan pursued her postdoc at the Art, Culture and Technology program of the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at MIT, US (2011). She worked at the Art History,[JW5] Istanbul Technical University (2001–2011), Architecture Faculty, Mardin Artuklu University (2013–2017), and was visiting professor in Hong Kong Polytechnic School of Design, Bard College the Human Rights & CCS[JW6] . Her research was supported by Hong Kong Design Trust, The Japan Foundation, CAD+SR, Graham F., and others. Tan collaborates with artist Anton Vidokle on essay films on the future society; she recently received the short film award by the Sharjah Art Foundation (AUB), 2020. She was a curator in the ECC Matera 2019, I-DEA Archive project by Matera Foundation (2018–2019), Associate Curator of the Adhocracy - 1.[JW7] Istanbul Design Biennial (2015). Curator of Urgent Pedagogies in design and art by IASPIS (Stockholm, since 2018), MAAT, Lisbon (2022). As an author she has contributed to: Superhumanity (e-flux and Minnesota Press, 2017), Climates: Architecture and The Planetary Imaginary, GSAPP (Lars Muller Publication, Columbia Univ., 2016), Re-Production of Social Architecture (Routledge, 2016), Urgent Architectural Theories (GSAPP Books, Columbia University, 2015), Doing Tolerance: Democracy, Citizenship and Social Protests (Barbara Budrich Publishing, Berlin, 2020), Radical Pedagogies (MIT Press, 2021).