Have You Tried Turning It Off and On Again? The Pause Between Worlds

Curators

Mine Kaplangı

Taking Clarice Lispector’s Água Viva as a point of departure, the session invites 10–12 participants to experiment with language in response to the exhibition. Together we will read short excerpts, reflect on ideas of temporary closure, suspended time, and online traces, witnessing the end(s) and then create short texts that respond to both the book and the works in the show. At the end of the session, participants will be welcome to share their pieces, and we will collectively create a small “mini-archive” of our writings. This format allows for intimate, experimental engagement with the exhibition and offers participants a chance to explore liminality and temporality through their own words. Collective diaries of our apocalypses.

Mine Kaplangı (they/them) is an independent curator, producer, and art mediator from Istanbul, Turkey, currently based in London. They co-founded the initiative Collective Çukurcuma (2015) and are presently co-curating the Entanglements of the Apocalypse programme at VSSL Studio (London). With Collective Çukurcuma, they have been curating exhibitions, public programmes, and transdisciplinary reading group events since 2016. Their ongoing research explores queer and trans imaginaries of the apocalypse through the concept of pirate radio, and they actively contribute to the research of the Carefuffle Working Group.