TEXTS

︎We Sees Fire: Queer Art Against Genocide
FEATURE on THROUGH THE WINDOW project’s 5th edition featuring artists directly responding to globally shared state censorship and denialism against the ongoing genocide in Palestine. Published on Metropolis M.

︎Alper Turan in conversation with Tannon Reckling, 2024 INTERVIEWED by Tannon Reckling on productive potential of undetectability, its poetics, and the material moments,  for November Mag, within of their AIDS issue after Douglas Crimp’s October issue on AIDS.

          

︎Fırça Darbesi: Dizilerden Sanat, 2024

                FICTIONALIZED RESEARCH co-written with Hayırlı Evlat, on representation of art and artists in Turkish TV. Published in Sanat Dünyamız, Issue 200.

︎Madde, İnsan, Rıza ve Dokunmaya Dair, 2024

INTERVIEW with Merey Şenocak, on her exhibition Fossils, Ordinary Stones, Precious Stones, at 5533, İstanbul. Published in Argonotlar.com in Turkish.

︎Trans Muse and Mother: ‘‘I’’ Within ‘‘We’’ and ‘‘We’’ Within ‘‘I’’, 2024

                PROFILE on Kübra Uzun’s work. Published in Protodispatch in English, in Argonotlar.com in Turkish, in GroundControl.th in Thai.

︎Ripping up the Underbelly and Looking at the Folds of a Boundless Skin, 2023          

                CATALOGUE TEXT Published in exhibition catalogue, İz Öztat: Underbelly, Zilberman Gallery, İstanbul. Available in English and Turkish.

︎Bedenin tümör olarak tercümesi: Arda Asena ile söyleşi, 2023

         INTERVIEW with Arda Asena on Asena’s practice, on the occasion of  Ankara Queer Art Program. 

︎When Hate Becomes An Instrument: Anti-LGBTIQ+ Rally in İstanbul, 2022OPINION TEXT Alper Turan with B. Toprak Karakaya, Leman Sevda Darıcıoğlu, and Koli Art Space (Yasemin Kalaycı & Elçin Acun)
originally published on Protodispatch, appered on artnet.com, available in Turkish on argonotlar.com.

︎Smoothing (Lines into Circles), 2022
CURATORIAL ESSAY - AXIOMS & METATEXT OF  Smoothing (lines into circles) exhibition at A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam.

︎Each Queer Death is An AIDS Complication, 2022

TEXT & AUTO-ESSAY Published on Texte Zur Kunst.  Alper Turan reflects on three deaths which affect him very personally. Drawing on his previous research at the intersection of AIDS and art, he commemorates these disruptions of his own social environment – the İstanbul art scene.

︎Pozitif Alan: Queer, Kirli, Tehlikeli, 2022

ESSAY A research-creation on HIV/AIDS in Turkey, published in Argonotlar.com in Turkish

︎Kendine Ait Bir Uydu, 2022

EXHIBITION REVIEW On Nazlı Khoshkabar’s solo exhibition Round and Around, at 5533, published in Argonotlar.com in Turkish

︎Maymunun Günahı, 2022

EXHIBITION REVIEW On group exhibition Saint Joseph: Beats of a Fabulous Machine, published in Sanat Dünyamız in Turkish

︎Mood Swings: Dropping Something, Picking it Up, Dropping It Again, 2022

CATALOGUE TEXT Published on exhibition catalogue Zeynep Kayan : one one two one two three, Zilberman Gallery Berlin
Available in English and German.

︎Once Upon A Time Inconceivable, 2021

CURATORIAL ESSAY  on Protocinema’s Once Upon A Time Inconceivable, 10th year anniversary exhibition. Available in English & Turkish

︎Between The Emitted Sound and The Receiving Body: interview with Julia E. Dyck

INTERVIEW with Julia E. Dyck, on Dyck’s practice, on the occasion of  Ankara Queer Art Program.

︎ Interview: Alper Turan by Mine Kaplangi, 2021

INTERVIEWED by Mine Kaplangi on the exhibition A Finger for an Eye. Published on Artfridge.de.

︎A Finger for an Eye, 2021

CURATORIAL ESSAY of exhibition A Finger for an Eye, Protocinema, İstanbul. Available in English and Turkish.

︎Q is non-existent in Turkish, 2020

AUTO-FICTIONAL TEXT wth footnotes, appropriations, dripping past.

︎Positive Space:  A curatorial project on HIV / AIDS, 2020

CULTURAL STUDIES  MASTER’S THESIS, A research-creation on HIV/AIDS in Turkey.

︎Positive Space:  An Exhibition Project on HIV/AIDS in Turkey , 2019
ESSAY, A research-creation on HIV/AIDS in Turkey, published in OnCurating’s issue 42: What You Don’t Know About AIDS Could Fill A Museum, edited by Tedd Kerr

︎Kriptik Bir Dil, 2019

INTERVIEWED by Derya Bayraktaroğlu, on the occasion of Positive Space exhibition. Published in Unlimited Rag.