Aslı Uludağ
- Associate Lecturer
- Environmental Architecture MA
Aslı is a practising artist and researcher based between London and Istanbul.
Aslı’s work investigates the politics of industrial and infrastructural projects, with a focus on watery environments and the subsurface. Her practice draws on various disciplines and modes of research to examine the environmental relations these projects exploit and reorganise, and the spatial conditions and material economies they produce.
She holds workshops, produces mixed-media installations, and contributes to publications in engaging with the different publics that are entangled through this relationality, and explores local practices and knowledges to collectively revive and generate acts of commoning as modes of intervention. Aslı holds an MA in Research Architecture from Goldsmiths, University of London, where she is currently a PhD candidate, investigating the geothermal energy complex in the Aegean Region of Turkey.
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Research funding
Artistic Research Grant, Salt, Istanbul (2024–25)
Research Bursary, Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London (2022–25)
Awards
Cultural & Artistic Responses to the Environmental Crisis Fellows Award, Prince Claus Fund, 2022
Current and recent projects
Marmara, 2022-ongoing
Marmara is a board game Aslı is developing alongside collaborator Kerem Ozan Bayraktar. It was initiated by an invitation from the Network for the Cultures of Marmara with its Islands and Straits to contribute to their CultureCIVIC-funded project, which aims to build and activate a network of people and organisations addressing the environmental crisis facing the Sea of Marmara. Marmara is an ecological board game that is based on fieldwork conducted on Marmara Island and incorporates events, beings, cultural and economic activities, as well as the environmental issues surrounding the Sea of Marmara. As a practical and effective pedagogical tool, the game aims to promote ecological thinking and collective action. A publication interlinked with the game, also titled Marmara, was published in 2024 with funding provided by SAHA Sustainability Fund (Istanbul, 2023). The production of the game is still in progress.
Publications, exhibitions and other outcomes
Selected publications
Bayraktar, K. O. and Uludağ, A., eds. (2024) Marmara. Istanbul: A4 Ofset.
Border Ecologies Network. (2023). An Interrogation of Terms. In: R. Badano, T. Percival and S. Schuppli, eds., Border Environments. Specter Books and CRA Press, pp. 162-167.
Uludağ, A. (2021). A Confabulative Mnemonics. In: İ. Öztat and M. Ünsal, eds., RE: AAP_2020. Istanbul: Arter Publications, pp. 150-164.
Uludağ, A. (2021). Mattering of a Productive Mythology. In: M. Pestana, S. Upham, B. Muraben, eds., Empathy Revisited: Designs for more than one, pp. 227-235.
Uludağ, A. (2020). Hydroponic Hovering. Performance Research, 24(7), pp.143-147.
Selected exhibitions
(2023) Arising from and Flowing Back to Itself. BAYETAV Sanat. Izmir, Turkey.
(2022) Life, Death, Love and Justice. Yapi Kredi Culture and Arts. Istanbul, Turkey.
(2022) What Water Knows. Pilot Galeri. Istanbul, Turkey.
(2021) Senkron. Gate 27. Istanbul, Turkey.
(2021) 29.9 km. Istanbul Research Institute. Turkey.
(2020) Library of Land and Sea. 5th Istanbul Design Biennial. Turkey
(2018) A Handful of Rights. Pera Museum. Istanbul, Turkey