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recent activities
Traces and Paths Towards Singularly-Plural Companionships
(2025)
Fulya Uçanok
This exposition emerged from my participation in the second interval of the Simultaneous Arrivals (Simularr) Artistic Research Project—a research project inviting international artist-researchers to explore relational, situated, and process-based inquiries in dialogue with core researchers. Core researchers: Nayari Castillo, Hanns Holger Rutz, Franziska Hederer, and Daniele Pozzi. For the second interval, the visual artist and researcher Elena Radaelli and I were invited as visiting artist-researchers. (More information on Simultaneous Arrivals: https://simularr.net/about/)
The exposition presents my process during the residency, i.e. my Traces and Paths Towards a Singularly-Plural Companionships.
The eight-week residency (3 March-30 April 2024) took place across three sites: Graz (Austria); Lecce, San Cesario (Italy); and Klagenfurt (Austria). The exposition traces this journey through various mediums, including texts, graphics, video and audio material experiments, field encounters, and theoretical companions. My processes, are informed and shaped by my companion collaborators—human (research-creation companions), more-than-human, textual, and material—who co-inform and co-create the unfolding of the research.
Tracing Noise in Butterfly Hips
(2025)
Miguelangel Clerc Parada
This retrospective study examines past collaborations between composer Miguelangel Clerc Parada and choreographer Pedro Goucha Gomes, using the choreography Butterfly Hips as a focal point. Noise is approached as an analytical tool to investigate interdisciplinary methods within the collaboration. The study aims to trace relationships between actants as streams of information, meaning, and physical or sensory elements. It questions whether emergent instances of noise can be identified through the mapping of these relationships.
This exposition is part of my retrospective research for the project "Problematizing Interdisciplinary Performance through Noise", developed within the CORPoREAL research group at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp.
recent publications
Hyper - Diffractive Photographic Diptychs in the Queer Borderlands of Drag and Wrestling
(2025)
Carl-Mikael Björk
An RC adaptation of the project as presented at the Hugarflug conference, Reykjavik 2025.
The presentation takes its point of departure in a photographic artistic research project that moves within the queer borderlands between drag and wrestling – two performative expressions that, through eccentric personas, embodied gestures, and DIY culture, destabilise notions of sex, gender, and sexuality. I approach these practices as arenas of performativity, where the hypermasculine and the hyperfeminine are not positioned in opposition, but meet in mutual tension and unstable, embodied renegotiation.
Through photography, in reciprocal movement with essayistic writing, I explore images of identity in motion. The presentation is part of a diffractive methodology, where photographs neither illustrate nor represent, but emerge as entangled with fiction, memory, theory, and philosophy as components of a broader research apparatus. An unstable interplay emerges, where photography and language generate tacit knowledge – a possible, partial and situated enactment of how identity and the body are (re)presented and displaced.
The project is diffractively grounded in the thinking of Barad, Butler, and Haraway on research apparatuses, performativity, and situated knowledge – with particular attention to the camera’s and photographer’s access to spaces where identity is performatively negotiated.