The Nactrl Collective aims to foster discussions through knowledge-sharing events via the Unbound Academy event series. This platform is designed as an interactive ground for academics and participants to share their knowledge, experience, and perspectives.
By providing a collective space for interdisciplinary discussions beyond the traditional confines of academic institutions, we aim to open up ground for sociocultural exchange that diffuses rigid disciplinary boundaries and encourages the expression of narratives that contribute to a deeper understanding of art and society.
Tuna Ögüt/Kübra Uzun, 27 November 2022
Being Trans “Feeling at home in your body and on the road in your queerness” Forum. One of the things used to express expectations from the trans experience and gender transition process is feeling at home in your body. Some of us go on a journey to feel at home in our bodies, while some of us draw strength from not feeling at home in our bodies and being on the road. We had a conversation with Kübra Uzun and Tuna Ögüt about establishing a home in the body, settling down, hitting the road, getting lost and finding oneself.
Fikret Adaman/Eren Şenkardeş, 1 October 2022
“Occupation of the Home” interview took place with Fikret Adaman, our valuable academician and mentor of Boğaziçi University, and Eren Şenkardeş, who opened the exhibition space as a home for us. While the concept of Occupation along with the home was being examined in this forum, Fikret Adaman re-examined the relationship of the home with the concepts of ecology /ownership / immigration /minority and talked about the importance of the concept of the commons. While touching on the history and neighbors of this Eksi-Bir with Eren Şenkardeş, he also discussed their commons. We chatted about its relationship with occupations.
Aylin Vartanyan/25 September 2022
“Settling Home”
After a presentation consisting of questions about the performance of our bodies, what an exhibition can mean and methods of co-production, a conversation followed. In this open class, where we expanded the boundaries of art and discussed various practices ranging from queer roommates to transition processes in the field of art, an environment was created where participants shared their experiences.
At Eksibir, the second stop of the Home exhibition, we held the “Settling Home” workshop of Aylin Vartanyan, an academician at Boğaziçi University. In the workshop, while examining the concept of home with the body and colors, we colored our home with the art production and playground opened by Expressionist Arts, on the one hand, we experienced our exhibition, which took place on September 25, 2022, with the new ways of feeling that the concept of home aroused in us during the workshop, with the space opened to us by Aylin Vartanyan.
Bilal Yılmaz /2 October 2022
“Creating Artistic Practices and Creative Networks” Interdisciplinary artist and designer; “Creating Artistic Practices and Creative Networks” with artist Bilal Yılmaz, who creates collective experiences with sculptural objects and installations using mainly light, sound, movement and interaction.
Tuna Öğüt and Ceytengri/16 June 2021
“Trans works: Life, Art, and Resistance”
“We find meaning in the production of art, we build relationships.We are and we are writing our history. We get strength from seeing each other’s works.”
In this open lecture designed as a salute to the Boğaziçi Resistance, They talked about the relationship between transness and art with their own experiences on the subjects of trans artists, autobiographical production and the politics of the beautiful. From questions about the performance of our bodies, what an exhibition can mean and methods of co-production.
After a presentation, it continued with a conversation. By expanding the boundaries of art, various practices, from teenage flatmates to transition processes, were discussed in the field of art. At the same time, the experiences of the participants were brought to the table.