Işıl Eğrikavuk

In the 2012 performance Change Will Be Terrific, she collaborated with Jozef E. Amado and Turkish rapper Fuat Ergin to create the song Karar Bizim (Our Decision) which was widely played at the Gezi Park protests in 2013.{{Citation |title=Fuat Ergin {{!}} Karar Bizim | date=9 June 2013 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxcw4gxNf2U |language=en |access-date=2022-10-12}} The project started one year before the protests to address gentrification in the central Taksim Square area. Reverse Corner (2013) and An Unusual Neighbourhood Tour (2010) are other works which explore protest and gentrification.{{Cite web |title=Egeran Galeri |url=https://www.artforum.com/picks/isil-egrikavuk-43166 |access-date=2022-10-12 |website=www.artforum.com |date=22 September 2013 |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=An Unusual Neighbour Tour |url=https://www.isilegrikavuk.work/an-unusual-neighbour-tour |access-date=2022-10-12 |website=Isil Egrikavuk |language=en|others={{Primary source inline|date=March 2024}}}}

In Time to Sing a New Song (2016), Eğrikavuk utilizes humor and playful language to enact an alternative perspective to traditional patriarchal religious mythologies. This video installation at the top of the Marmara Pera Hotel was shut down in an act of censorship by Turkish officials.{{Cite web |title=Time To Sing A New Song |url=https://www.isilegrikavuk.work/time-to-sing-a-new-song |access-date=2022-10-12 |website=Isil Egrikavuk |language=en|others={{Primary source inline|date=March 2024}}}}{{Cite web |title=Artforum.com |url=https://www.artforum.com/news/turkish-police-censor-public-art-piece-in-istanbul-59889 |access-date=2022-10-12 |website=www.artforum.com |date=4 May 2016 |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Akkermans |first=Ari |date=2016-05-10 |title=Turkish Government Censors Video Projection and Youth Biennial Artworks |url=http://hyperallergic.com/297665/turkish-government-censors-video-projection-and-youth-biennial-artworks/ |access-date=2022-10-12 |website=Hyperallergic |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Elci |first=Yasemin |date=2020-09-22 |title=How Artists in Turkey Are Responding to Violence against Women |url=https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-artists-turkey-responding-violence-women |access-date=2022-10-12 |website=Artsy}} Other works by Eğrikavuk employ humor to challenge gender norms including Departure Time (2015) where the artists has her shoes shinned while wearing a wedding dress.{{Cite web |title=Departure Time |url=https://www.isilegrikavuk.work/departuretime |access-date=2022-10-12 |website=Isil Egrikavuk |language=en|others={{Primary source inline|date=March 2024}}}}

The Art of Disagreement (2015), draws directly from contemporary Turkish political events and absurdly reproduces them to critically reflect on their dangerous nature.{{Cite web |title=Art of Disagreement |url=https://www.isilegrikavuk.work/artofdisagreement |access-date=2022-10-12 |website=Isil Egrikavuk |language=en|others={{Primary source inline|date=March 2024}}}} More recently, in Pluto's Kitchen (2016) she critiqued Brexit by likening it to the disintegration of a love affair and Pluto's break up from the planetary system when it was downgraded to a dwarf planet.{{Cite web |last=Judah |first=Hettie |date=2017-06-06 |title=From Pots to Posters and the Press, UK Artists Use Everything They Can to Oppose Theresa May |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/general-election-artists-uk-take-a-stand-982289 |access-date=2022-10-12 |website=Artnet News |language=en-US}}

Interconnectedness is an overarching theme in Eğrikavuk's work. Her 2021 thesis, From a Political Protest to an Art Exhibition: Building Interconnectedness through Dialogue Based Art, was a collaboration with 6 art and ecology collectives from Turkey focused on developing ways to communicate with one-another in atmospheres with restricted of freedom of expression. In The Other Garden (2022), along with her students at Universität der Künste, she established a garden in the backyard of their university where they grow wild plants that are not originating in Germany and focus on issues of bio-diversity, inclusivity and care work.{{Cite web |title=The Other Garden |url=https://www.isilegrikavuk.work/theothergarden |access-date=2022-10-13 |website=Isil Egrikavuk |language=en|others={{Primary source inline|date=March 2024}}}}

In 2003, Eğrikavuk earned a BA in Western Languages and Literature from Boğazici University.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}} In 2005, she earned an MA in Arts Administration, followed by an MFA in Performance (2008) from SAIC, funded in part by a Koç Foundation Scholarship.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}} In 2021, she earned her Ph.D. from Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Between 2008 and 2013, Eğrikavuk worked in Turkey as a journalist, reporter, and editor at Hürriyet Daily News, formerly Turkish Daily News.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}} From 2013 to 2016, Eğrikavuk wrote a weekly column in Turkish, Güncel Sanat Kafası (High on Contemporary Art), published in daily national newspaper Radikal, that commented on the intersection of daily news and contemporary art in Turkey.{{Cite web |title=PARSE |url=https://parsejournal.com/ |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=parsejournal.com |language=en-US}}

In 2008, Eğrikavuk began her teaching career at SAIC administering the course “Absurd Everyday.”{{Cite web |title=Teaching & Talks |url=https://www.isilegrikavuk.work/academia |access-date=2024-06-17 |website=Isil Egrikavuk |language=en}} In Turkey, Eğrikavuk has been an adjunct professor at Sabanci University (Visual Arts Department), Boğaziçi University (Western Languages and Literature Department), Yıldız Teknik (Art and Design department), and for ten years at Istanbul Bilgi University (Visual Communication, Photography and Video, Culture and Art Management Departments).{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}{{Cite web |title=About & News & Contact |url=https://www.isilegrikavuk.work/contact |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=Isil Egrikavuk |language=en|others={{Primary source inline|date=March 2024}}}} Since 2017, Eğrikavuk has been at Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany (UdK), Communication Department (Gesellschafts und Wirtschaftskommunikation) as a Post Ph.D. Research Associate and faculty member.

Eğrikavuk received her Ph.D. in Communication from Istanbul Bilgi University in 2021. Thesis title: From A Political Protest To An Art Exhibition: Building Interconnectedness Through Dialogue-Based Art. {{Cite web |title=Universitat der Kunste Berlin |url=https://www.udk-berlin.de/studium/gesellschafts-und-wirtschaftskommunikation/lehrende-und-mitarbeiterinnen/isil-egrikavuk/}}

• Eğrikavuk, Işıl (2024): Global Protests Through Art - co-creation, collaboration, and interconnectedness, co-published by Books People Places and Berlin University of Arts (UdK), Berlin, Germany.{{Cite web |title=Global Protests Through Art - co-creation, collaboration, interconnectedness |url=https://bookspeopleplaces.com/Publishing/global-protests-through-art-co-creation-collaboration-interconnectedness |access-date=2024-06-11 |website=Books People Places |language=en}}
• Eğrikavuk, Işıl in collaboration with students from Art and Feminisms Class (2021): Art and Feminisms, UdK Berlin.
• Eğrikavuk, Işıl (2012): Under the Same Roof, Artist Book, Istanbul{{Cite web |last=Archive |first=Asia Art |title=Under the Same Roof |url=https://aaa.org.hk/en/collections/search/library/under-the-same-roof-ayn-cat-altnda |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=aaa.org.hk |language=en}}

• Eğrikavuk, Işıl (2024). Collaboration and Dialogue in Artistic Research. In: Doing and Being Together: Cases from Media Studies. IPCC 21, Routledge Companion, Istanbul.
• Eğrikavuk, Işıl (2023). Crisis and Activism as Performance. In: Aneta Mancewicz, Ralf Remshardt (Eds.), Contemporary European Theatre and Performance, Routledge Companion.
• Eğrikavuk, Işıl (2020). Maybe, We Will Benefit from Our Neighbour’s Good Fortune: An Exhibition on Collectivity, Community, and Dialogue in Turkey. In Adrian McGarry, Itır Erhart, Hande Eslen-Ziya, Olu Jenzen, & Umut Korkut (Eds.), The Aesthetics of Global Protest: Visual Culture and Communication. pp. 81–98. Amsterdam University Press.{{Cite book |title=coaccess |url=https://apps.crossref.org/coaccess/coaccess.html?doi=10.2307/j.ctvswx8bm.9 |access-date=2022-10-12 |website=apps.crossref.org | date=9 December 2019 | publisher=Amsterdam University Press |doi=10.2307/j.ctvswx8bm.9| isbn=978-90-485-4450-9 }}

• Eğrikavuk, Işıl (2021): Circles of Emotional Connection. Maybe We Will Benefit From Our Neighbour’s Good Fortune. In: CSPA Quarterly, Center for Sustainable Practice in The Arts 33, pp. 33–46.
• Eğrikavuk, Işıl (2017): Seeing the Belly Dance as a Feminist Possibility: Gaze, Gender and Public Space in İstanbul. In: Kadın/Woman 2000 Journal for Women's Studies, 18(2). pp. 69–84.{{Cite journal |last=Eğrikavuk |first=Işık |date=2017-10-10 |title=Seeing the Belly Dance as a Feminist Possibility: Gaze, Gender and Public Space in İstanbul |url=https://ojs.emu.edu.tr/index.php/woman2000/article/view/253 |journal=Kadın/Woman 2000, Journal for Women's Studies |language=en |volume=18 |issue=2 |pages=69–84 |doi=10.33831/jws.v18i2.253 |issn=1302-9916|doi-access=free }}

• Garden, A Living Research Space on Ecology and Inclusivity in Academia, 13th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research, Weimar, Germany, 2022
• Performing Power and Dissent, Performance Studies International (PSI), Virtual Neighborhoods (online), 2021
• Performance Art for Self-Healing Practices, Inquiring Healing Across Screen Cultures: Recuperating narratives, mediums, and creativities workshop, Berlin (online), 2021{{Cite web |title=CFP {{!}} Inquiring healing across screen cultures |url=http://recuperativescreen.org/cfp.html |access-date=2022-10-12 |website=recuperativescreen.org |language=en}}
• Diversifying Research Methodologies: Researcher as Collaborator, ICPP, Interdisciplinary Phd Communication Conference, Istanbul Bilgi University, (online), 2021
• Presenter, 12th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research, Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design at University of Bergen (KMD, UiB), 2020
• Play, Performance, and Practice-as-Research, The World Inside Out: Humor, Noise, and Performance Conference, UNAM Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2019
• Guest Lecturer, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 2019
• Two Sides of a Coin: Artist Talk, February, 2019, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Distinguished Alumni Talk, 2018{{Cite web |title=Işıl Eğrikavuk |url=https://www.saic.edu/visiting-artists-program/events/i%C5%9F%C4%B1l-e%C4%9Frikavuk |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=School of the Art Institute of Chicago |language=en}}
• Artist Talk, Rosa Luxemborg Foundation, Berlin, Germany, 2018
• Panelist, The Performance of Protest: a panel on visual culture and aesthetics, ICA London, June 2017{{Cite web |title=The Performance of Protest: a panel on visual culture and aesthetics |url=https://archive.ica.art/whats-on/performance-protest-panel-visual-culture-and-aesthetics/index.html |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=archive.ica.art |language=en}}

In 2009, Eğrikavuk participated in the 11th Istanbul Biennial with her works Infamous Library and the video installation Gül. This was her first major exhibition.

2024

• Ne İlyas Ne Cemşit, Perform Istanbul, March 2024.{{Cite web |last=performistanbul |date=2024-02-29 |title=ne ilyas ne cemsit {{!}} performistanbul |url=https://www.performistanbul.org/index.php/ne-ilyas-ne-cemsit/ |access-date=2024-06-17 |language=en-GB}}

2023

• Everything will be just like now – just a little different, Künstlerhaus Bregenz, Austria.{{Cite web |title=2023_05 |url=https://kuenstlerhaus-bregenz.at/ausstellungsarchiv/2023-archiv/2023_05/ |access-date=2024-06-17 |website=Berufsvereinigung Bildender Künstlerinnen und Künstler Vorarlbergs |language=de-DE}}
• Beyond Home, Kunstraum Kreuzberg.{{Cite web |title=Beyond Home. Eine feministische Dekonstruktion eines Begriffs – Kunstraum Kreuzberg |url=https://kunstraumkreuzberg.de/programm/beyond-home-eine-feministische-dekonstruktion-eines-begriffs/ |access-date=2024-06-17 |language=de-DE}}
• Another Kind, Nesin Art Village.{{Cite web |title=Başka Türlü |url=https://www.nesinistasyon.org/baskaturlu |access-date=2024-06-17 |website=Nesin İstasyon |language=tr}}

2022

• Beautiful Diaspora/You are Not the Lesser Part, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA{{Cite web |date=2022-03-10 |title=Beautiful Diaspora / You Are Not the Lesser Part |url=https://www.artdictionmagazine.com/beautiful-diaspora-you-are-not-the-lesser-part/ |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=ArtDiction |language=en-US}}
• Time to Sing a New Song, Solo Exhibition, Galerie Auslage, Berlin, Germany{{Cite web |title=Time to Sing a New Song / IPA |url=https://www.instituteforpublicart.org/case-studies/time-to-sing-a-new-song/ |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=www.instituteforpublicart.org}}
• Vulnerable Critters, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain{{Cite web |last=Encendida |first=La Casa |title=Vulnerable Critters |url=https://www.lacasaencendida.es/exhibitions/vulnerable-critters-13607 |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=www.lacasaencendida.es |language=en}} 2022

2021

• Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago{{Cite web |title=Artist Talk: Işıl Eğrikavuk and Nahum, RAISIN exhibiting artists « Upcoming Programs « Engage « Chicago Architecture Biennial |url=https://chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org/engage/artist_talk_il_erikavuk_and_nahum_raisin_exhibiting_artists |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org |language=en}}
• Arnis International Residency Exhibition, Arnis, Germany{{Cite web |title=2021 |url=http://arnisresidency.de/arnis-residency-2021/ |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=Arnis Residency |language=en-US}}
• Temporal Communities, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany{{Cite web |date=2021-11-15 |title=Launch {{!}} Video Lecture Series |url=https://www.temporal-communities.de/events/video-lecture-series-narration-embodiment.html |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=www.temporal-communities.de |language=en}}

2020

• His TV, Errant Sound, Berlin, Germany
• The Interview, screening, Bilsart Video Art Space, Istanbul (Solo exhibition),{{Cite web |title=Bilsart |url=https://www.bilsart.com/en/ |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=www.bilsart.com}} Sharjah Biennial Film Program, UAE,{{Cite web |title=projects - Sharjah Art Foundation |url=https://www.sharjahart.org/sharjah-art-foundation/projects/the-interview |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=www.sharjahart.org}} Istanbul Biennial Film Program, Turkey
• Der Zeit ihre Kunst, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Germany{{Cite web |title=Der Zeit ihre Kunst / |url=https://www.kunstverein-wiesbaden.de/edition/der-zeit-ihre-kunst |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=www.kunstverein-wiesbaden.de |language=de-DE}}

2019

• Die Enden der Freiheit, Halle 14, Leipzig, Germany{{Cite web |title=Die Enden der Freiheit / Ends of Freedom |url=https://www.halle14.org/aktuelle-ausstellungen/ausstellungsarchiv/archiv/die-enden-der-freiheit-ends-of-freedom |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=www.halle14.org}}
• DEAR FEAR, solo exhibition, Die Büehne, Berlin, Germany
• Art Souterrain, Montreal, Canada
• Come On, Plato Sanat, Istanbul

2018

• Block Museum, Artist Talk-Screening, Chicago, Il
• House of Wisdom, Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham, UK{{Cite web |last=Literature |first=Nottingham UNESCO City of |date=2022-10-11 |title=House of Wisdom Panel… |url=https://nottinghamcityofliterature.com/whats-on/29/06/2018/talks/house-of-wisdom-panel-discussion |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=nottinghamcityofliterature.com |language=en}}

2017

• Pluto’s Kitchen, Block Universe Performance Art Festival, London{{Cite web |title=Pluto's Kitchen |url=https://www.openspacecontemporary.com/projects/plutos-kitchen/ |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=Open Space Contemporary}}

2015

• Art of Disagreement, solo exhibition, Salt Ulus, Ankara, Turkey{{Cite web |title=Performing Politics |url=https://www.ibraaz.org/news/143 |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=Ibraaz}}
• Mother Tongue, group exhibition, 3,14, Bergen, Norway

Eğrikavuk's work is held in multiple private collections and in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Photography.{{Cite web |title=Museum of Contemporary Photography |url=https://www.mocp.org/collection-artists.php?c=e |access-date=2022-11-29 |website=www.mocp.org}}

• Recipient, Borderless Art Book Fund Award, 2022{{Cite web |title=border_less |url=https://www.border-l-e-s-s.com/artbook-days-book-fund |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=border_less |language=en-US}}
• Distinguished Alumni Award, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, 2018{{Cite web |title=Q&A with Işil Eğrikavuk (MA 2005, MFA 2008) |url=https://www.saic.edu/news/marketing-communications/qa-isil-egrikavuk-ma-2005-mfa-2008 |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=School of the Art Institute of Chicago |language=en}}
• Grand prize co-winner, Best Turkish Contemporary Artist, Full Art Prize, 2012{{Cite web |title=Culture and arts scene blazes trail in 2012 |url=https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/culture-and-arts-scene-blazes-trail-in-2012-38063 |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=Hürriyet Daily News |date=January 2013 |language=en}}
• Grand winner, Spot Production Fund, Istanbul, 2012{{Cite web |title=Isil Egrikavuk |url=https://www.mixerarts.com/new-page-5 |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=MIXER |language=en-US}}

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