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| Time of residency | June 2025 |
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| Contact info | tuba emiroğlu / emiroglu.tuba@gmail.com |
| Definition of artistic practice? | Patricia Habchy. Performance maker, mover, clown, storyteller, writer. My practice draws on these approaches to performance in order to craft on-site, accurate narratives that contribute to a compassionate present and future. Tuba Emiroglu, PhD: I am a researcher and mover exploring the body, senses, and movement at the intersection of posthuman theories and landscape anthropology, grounded in a background in sociology and political science. |
| Title of the investigation at the residency | Mulberry tree, Mulberry tree, how old are you? |
| Description of investigations and findings | Tuba: Our senses moved beyond passive receptors in environmental interaction to become active, even performative agents in the production of experience. Within this multisensory, spatiotemporal relational network, our bodies emerged equally as observers and as ‘participant-nodes’ of existence. Thus, the rhythmic, textural, and spatial components of our sensory perceptions wove together with environmental structures to create a shared narrative and lifeline; the field of experience transformed into interwoven modes of being—body and landscape flowing in continuous, interconnected movement. |
| What are you most curious about or invested in in your own practice? | P:I am interested in the ways we can embody information in order to get over prejudice and create community. I care about making heartfelt and inclusive conversations among ourselves as living organisms in relation to a particular environment. T: I am interested in how bodies dwell in and become entangled with landscapes, memory, and more-than-human worlds. Through sensory ethnography and embodied research, I explore movement as a tool of knowing landscapes in political and ecological contexts. |
| What questions did you bring to investigate and what questions are you leaving with? | P:I came with the question: how does the organic in me meet the landscape, memory, and present moment? I’m leaving with a desire to explore how residue from this research might shape collective improvisation and include the community where it unfolds T:I was curious about how I connect with an unfamiliar landscape through senses and body -how body/landscape shape each other. It led to another: If research moves beyond knowledge to sensing /witnessing, how does it change our relation to the world |
| Transformative, creative moments at the residency | P:A transformative moment came from returning to the same spot daily, each time revealing new layers of meaning in different spots. Sharing this with a partner allowed us to gain perspective and notice aspects of the work we might have missed alone. T: without exchanging a word, we both instinctively focused our attention on the same fragment of landscape.2 distinct bodies,each with its own rhythm/ presence, converged silently on that place. With this shared, wordless act, we reanimated a ruin. |
| Keywords for the work done at the residency | Collaboration, Echolocation, Embodied Landscapes, Field work, Landscape, Natural environments, Ruins, Sensing |
| Research locations | The Turkish Island |
| Further documentation | The island We brought back home-Politics of Attention |
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Patricia Habchy & Tuba Emiroglu
