V. Şafak Uysal

Related places: ÇGSG, [laboratuar] Categories: Dance, Theatre http://www.laboratuar.org

About the artist

Şafak Uysal was born in 1978, in Bodrum/Turkey. After graduating from METU Dept. of City and Regional Planning, he continued his academic life with a master's degree (with a focus on body-space relationship) in Interior Architecture and Environmental Design at Bilkent University, and completed his doctorate studies (with a focus on architecture as a technology of framing experience) at the Faculty of Art, Design, and Architecture at Bilkent. He has been teaching since 1999 at various universities and educational structures on basic design, architectural design, visual arts & culture, applications in contemporary art, arts management and movement; has been carrying on his theatrical and choreographic work with “[laboratuar] performance arts research and project lab” since 2003; and, finally, is a member of the Association of the Contemporary Performing Arts Initiative (ACPAI) since its establishment in 2005. Uysal's current research interests include architectural theory & criticism, cultural studies, post-structuralist thought, visual culture, performance studies, and theory of aesthetics.



Individual Works:
A.S.S.; Mask; Balchik; Void is a mere assumption; [in-case]; [kat:la:ma]; [i am sitting in a room]; [tric-trac]; Für-u-zan; Ayak-üstü; Gel-git; {Şehr'ü Evlad'üz-Ziyan}: The City of Lost Children; Ladies & gentlemen, representing the Turkish Republic...; She (The face only a mother could love); (Corps de) Endymion; Dreams and Stuff; Angelus Novus...

Collaborations and Other Contributions:
“Vice Versa” and “Fundamental” (w/Emre Çelik); 3brokenFISH (w/Fulya Tekin); “loophole” and “cammekan” (w/Özgür Özakın and Umut Şumnu); “Home Sweet Home” (Dir: Emre Koyuncuoğlu); “Neden? Why? Çima? İnçu?...” (Chor: Mihran Tomasyan); “Parallel” (w/Bürge Öztürk); “Lungo Drom: A Documentary Play about the Turkish Roma” (Dir: Şule Ateş); “In Trust in the Near East” and “The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband” (Dir: Özen Yula); “Hit-and-Miss” (w/E. Çelik, D. İleri, B. Murphy, T. Tuna); “Monday in the Sun” (w/Bedirhan Dehmen); “On Beauty of Love...” (Chor: Beyhan Murphy; w/Doğuş Bitecik); “Human Writes” (William Forsythe & Kendall Thomas)...

Project Development, Research & Coordination:
“METU International Contemporary Dance Festival”; “Mediterranean Dance Map” and “The Sea of Dance: Art for Intercultural Dialogue” (DBM); “Amongst Neighbors: Mitte-Cihangir” (Association for the Beautification of Cihangir); “Art Education with the Roman Youth”, “Independent Network: Cultural Management and Capacity Development for Contemporary Performing Arts”, “Course of Novelty: Glancing at the New in Performing Arts”, and “Here and Now” (ACPAI); “Autonomy and Complexity in Contemporary Dance: Brazil, Slovenia, Spain and Turkey”...

Contact:
safak@laboratuar.org

Selected works