S.W.E.A.T. features conversations about performance and performativity of the sexual/ized body at work—work as labour of survival and labour of a/Art with host Mad Kate. This episode features artist Mürüvvet Türkyılmaz, whose work delves into the themes of borders, mapping, geography, and memory. We met in the context of Tanja Ostojić's Mis(s)placed Women? collaborative art project at DEPO Gallery in Istanbul in 2022

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Born in Izmir in 1968, Türkyılmaz currently resides and creates from Istanbul, Turkey. Since 1996, her artistic journey has taken her across numerous exhibitions in Turkey and abroad, where she has been invited to showcase her work. Notable among these are her participation in events such as the 8th Havana Biennial, the 15th Sydney Biennial and the 3rd Mardin Biennial.

Between 2004 and 2010, Türkyılmaz held the position of instructor at Yeditepe University, where she taught courses on Turkish Art History, Visual Culture, and General Art History. Additionally, she has been at the forefront of fostering creative dialogue and collaboration among artists and individuals from diverse disciplines through her leadership of the Open Table, a platform for discussion and exchange.

Over the past five years, Türkyılmaz has embarked on immersive journeys, residing and working in locations such as Istanbul, Rome, and France, which have further enriched her artistic practice. She holds an International Art Therapy Certificate from Altınbas University in Turkey and has offered art studio courses to both children and adults.

More about …

Mürüvvet Türkyılmaz: https://www.instagram.com/muruvvetturkyilmaz_art/?hl=en

Acik Radyo: https://acikradyo.com.tr/program/acik-masa

Tanja Ostojić – Mis(s)placed Women? (2009-2022) at DEPO Istanbul: https://www.depoistanbul.net/en/event/tanja-ostojic-missplaced-women-2009-2022-exhibition/

Tanja Ostojić – Mis(s)placed Women? https://misplacedwomen.wordpress.com/

We mentioned …

Mahsa Amini aka Jina Amini https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Mahsa_Amini

Ana Mendieta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Mendieta

Track List …

Mad Kate – My Fear of Pretending (featuring Lori Baldwin) Eat Lipstick – Afraid of Love Replikas - Yaş elli Reverie Falls on All – 05:35 am Altin Gün – Goca Dünya Reverie Falls on All – Clouds in My Room

This show is dedicated to parent artist and musician Lehua Lií Ludlow (30.06.1967 - 05.07.2023)

We all sweat as we provide care, as we labour, as we perform our work, as we fuck, as we survive and as we sacrifice one choice for the other. How exactly do we define our work and how does that work entangle and circumscribe our sexual identities, our racialized bodies, our creative lives and the ways in which we provide care? How do we perform both tasks and identities within the framework of that which we consider work? These conversations are a means to speak between intersectionalities by anchoring through our (always, already, and ever pervasive) sexualized and racialized bodies, our working bodies, our artistic bodies and our performative bodies. I hope that they contribute to dialogues which normalize sex work as work, and all work as deserving of respect, healthy conditions, and a living wage.

You can find out more https://www.alfabus.us/s-w-e-a-t/

Mad Kate (they/them) is an electronic producer, sound designer, performance artist and writer who began working the Berlin performance and club scene in 2004, expanding their unique identity-queering, genderfcking and sexpositive performative work throughout music, theatre and film. Their explorations of borders between/within bodies, audibility, consent, proximity, and touch as political practice have brought them to theaters, communes, technomansions, prisons, dungeons, squats and galleries around the world.