BIO
Aslı Uludağ received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her MA in Research Architecture from Goldsmiths, University of London. Through her research-based practice, she explores the legal, architectural, and techno-scientific structures that organize the relationship between humans and the environment and investigates the violence enacted through these processes. She proposes alternative modes of engaging with the environment through performative and interactive installations, workshops, and speculative narratives. The exhibitions she took part in include What Water Knows, Pilot Gallery, Istanbul (2022); 5th Istanbul Design Biennial (2020); A Handful of Rights, Pera Museum, Istanbul (2018); and Dissecting Signifiers, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago (2016). She is among the recipients of the Prince Claus Mentorship Award (2022) and co-founder of Practices of Attunement.
PROJECT
Hydro-Geothermal Bodies, an outcome of Aslı Uludağ’s ongoing research since 2019, focuses on the development of geothermal energy in Aydın, Manisa, and Denizli. The installation includes a timeline charting the legal, scientific, and economic transformations that have shaped the governance of hydro-geothermal resources in the region, a diagram illustrating the private, public, and communal structures, and a map exposing the spatial implications of events outlined in the timeline and the diagram. Field recordings from interviews with thermal bath owners and users, geological engineers, and village residents are accompanied by a series of videos that explore the local hydro-geothermal relations. Mapping an intertwined network of relations, the installation challenges the mechanisms of scientific measurement while tracing the commons embodied in local practices and built around resources.