Özgür Erkök Moroder, it/das (1981, TR)

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Studied art, design and music. Working and living in Berlin since 2012. 

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Performer, drawer, costume & stage designer, vocal worker, music and video producer, workshop conductor and activist. 

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Multidisciplinary Artist explores the intersections of the discourses of body, identity and everyday-life politics from a Queer-Feminist perspective. Fabricating narratives, speculative fictions and visual centauric fusions around the unresolved question ”what is human?” investigating the layers of the concept of “body” and the “self” where the power dynamics and Ideologies manifest themselves in the age of accelerating transformation. There, artworks are suggesting questions and interpretations regarding the concept of body. “The body” which is constituted by meanings, altered by norms, classified and marked with dress codes, shaped by ideologies, scientific discourses  and technologies. Science fiction often serves as a visual  and contextual building stone.

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Its artistic practice is often blurring the borders between disciplines. The Artworks are mostly inhabiting liminal spaces between everyday and extraordinary, signifier, signified and meaning, subconscious and ego, rational and absurd and technology with queer-feminist approach. 

Its spatial drawing and costume installations and works across a range of media often appear on the line of absurdity and irony, yet they show a critical approach. 

Ö.E.M. was a member of the art collective Ha Za Vu Zu based in Istanbul for 17 years. They realized many collective performances, workshops, exhibitions, concerts and projects in biennials and festivals. Collaborations are a vital aspect of its practice, where diverse perspectives and ideas catalyse new possibilities.

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Parallel to Its art practice for more than 20 years ÖEM is working with youth, and occasionally with adults, facilitating experimental artistic workshops focusing on anti-discrimination, inclusivity and diversity in a post-pedagogical perspective. Conducting costume, mask making, comics and animation workshops which offer empowering safer and inclusive spaces for queer, trans and non-binary youngsters.

 

Performing under the name "sesperisi" (voice fairy) - solo SynthPunk Opera Performance Project. 

Composed sound and music pieces for performances and theatre pieces (Ibrahim Quraishi, Shlomo Liebermann). 

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Appeared in independent feature films, designed movie posters (Ex The Movie, Berlin Beat, Captain Faggotron..) Designed costumes for performances and fetish parties (Hau, Kitkat Club, Kinky Galore Berlin). 

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Curated performance events and exhibitions (Irrzone, 48 Stunden Neukölln). 

Realised countless pedagogical artistic workshop projects with young people and adults (Kultur Agenten, YoungArts Neukölln, Juks Schöneberg, ArtPaed, FEZ).

 

- Nominated for National Galerie, Young Art Prize, Berlin (2015)                                                                      - Nominated for Full Art Prize, Semi Final, Istanbul  (2011)                                                                          

- Chairperson and workshop conductor at Youth Art School Young Arts Neukölln Foundation  (2020-)                                                                                                                                            

- Member of art collective Ha Za Vu Zu (Istanbul)(2005-2022 )                                                                       

- Coordinator & Artist at Apartment Project-Berlin (2012-17)                                                                         

- Comics & Manga, Queer Costume Design, Animation workshop conductor at YoungArts             Neukölln, Berlin (2018-)                                                                                                                                                - Costume design workshops conductor at Jugendkunstschule Schöneberg, Berlin (2023-2025)