Cüneyt Çakırlar
Biographic Data
| ID | 4003500 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cüneyt Çakırlar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cüneyt |
| FAMILY NAME | Çakırlar |
| SIGNATURE | ÇAKIRLAR C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nottingham Trent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1171-8635 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The monogamous/promiscuous optics in contemporary gay film
This article explores representations of same-sex intimacy in contemporary gay cinema by focusing on two films, Weekend (2011) and Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo (2016). Both films spatialise intimacy, which is reflected in a formal appeal to monogamous and promiscuous optics. What interests us here is how the relational politics of monogamy/promiscuity can be considered as stylistic and ideological registers in gay filmmaking. Informed by Leo Bersani’…
Transnational Pride, Global Closets and Regional Formations of Screen Activism
This study explores three documentary projects from Turkey, namely Proudly Trans in Turkey (by Gabrielle Le Roux, 2012), My Child (by Can Candan, 2013), and Trans X Istanbul (by Maria Binder, 2014). Attempting to make visible various spaces and formations of LGBTQ activism in Turkey, these collaborative projects can be considered as practices of screen activism that critically reflect on their own circulation, spectatorial address, ethnographic a…
Introduction to Queer/ing Regions
Having been launched at a symposium at Nottingham Trent University in February 2013, the themed section Queer/ing Regions addresses the potentials of critical regionalisms in contemporary queer studies. The section explores the ways in which the complex regional/local formations of sexual dissidence emerges, if not being instrumentalized, as objects of theoretical inquiry when addressed within a global context by means of transnational formations…
Aesthetics of self-scaling
This article examines relations of ethnography, contemporary art practice, globalisation and scalar geopolitics with particular reference to Kutluğ Ataman's artworks. Having been shortlisted for the Turner Prize at the Tate and awarded the prestigious international Carnegie Prize in 2004 with his 40-screen video installation Küba (2004), Ataman became an extremely well-known, globally acclaimed artist and filmmaker. Self-conscious of their global…
Queer art of parallaxed document
The video art of Kutluğ Ataman problematizes ethnography as method and documentary as genre. Ataman's subjects on screen construct themselves in front of the camera, via talk and self-performance, where the artist's strategically unmarked authority reveals a critical ambiguity in terms of agency, identity and identification. Self-aware of their global reach and critically attentive to the contemporary ethnographic turn in the visual arts scene, A…
Masculinity, Scatology, Mooning and the Queer/able Art of Gilbert & George
The aim of this essay is to investigate the intersections between masculinity, shame, art, anality, the abject and embodiment by focusing on a particular period of the British art duo Gilbert & George's work in the 1990s. In their series The Naked Shit Pictures (1994), The Fundamental Pictures (1996) and The Rudimentary Pictures (1999), the duo's artistic self-performance opens a scatological narrative territory where the male body encounters its…
Introduction to Queer/ing Regions
Having been launched at a symposium at Nottingham Trent University in February 2013, the themed section Queer/ing Regions addresses the potentials of critical regionalisms in contemporary queer studies. The section explores the ways in which the complex regional/local formations of sexual dissidence emerges, if not being instrumentalized, as objects of theoretical inquiry when addressed within a global context by means of transnational formations…
Aesthetics of self-scaling
This article examines relations of ethnography, contemporary art practice, globalisation and scalar geopolitics with particular reference to Kutluğ Ataman's artworks. Having been shortlisted for the Turner Prize at the Tate and awarded the prestigious international Carnegie Prize in 2004 with his 40-screen video installation Küba (2004), Ataman became an extremely well-known, globally acclaimed artist and filmmaker. Self-conscious of their global…
Transnational Pride, Global Closets and Regional Formations of Screen Activism
This study explores three documentary projects from Turkey, namely Proudly Trans in Turkey (by Gabrielle Le Roux, 2012), My Child (by Can Candan, 2013), and Trans X Istanbul (by Maria Binder, 2014). Attempting to make visible various spaces and formations of LGBTQ activism in Turkey, these collaborative projects can be considered as practices of screen activism that critically reflect on their own circulation, spectatorial address, ethnographic a…
Queer art of parallaxed document
The video art of Kutluğ Ataman problematizes ethnography as method and documentary as genre. Ataman's subjects on screen construct themselves in front of the camera, via talk and self-performance, where the artist's strategically unmarked authority reveals a critical ambiguity in terms of agency, identity and identification. Self-aware of their global reach and critically attentive to the contemporary ethnographic turn in the visual arts scene, A…
Queer art of parallaxed document
The video art of Kutluğ Ataman problematizes ethnography as method and documentary as genre. Ataman's subjects on screen construct themselves in front of the camera, via talk and self-performance, where the artist's strategically unmarked authority reveals a critical ambiguity in terms of agency, identity and identification. Self-aware of their global reach and critically attentive to the contemporary ethnographic turn in the visual arts scene, A…
Masculinity, Scatology, Mooning and the Queer/able Art of Gilbert & George
The aim of this essay is to investigate the intersections between masculinity, shame, art, anality, the abject and embodiment by focusing on a particular period of the British art duo Gilbert & George's work in the 1990s. In their series The Naked Shit Pictures (1994), The Fundamental Pictures (1996) and The Rudimentary Pictures (1999), the duo's artistic self-performance opens a scatological narrative territory where the male body encounters its…
Aesthetics of self-scaling
This article examines relations of ethnography, contemporary art practice, globalisation and scalar geopolitics with particular reference to Kutluğ Ataman's artworks. Having been shortlisted for the Turner Prize at the Tate and awarded the prestigious international Carnegie Prize in 2004 with his 40-screen video installation Küba (2004), Ataman became an extremely well-known, globally acclaimed artist and filmmaker. Self-conscious of their global…
Introduction to Queer/ing Regions
Having been launched at a symposium at Nottingham Trent University in February 2013, the themed section Queer/ing Regions addresses the potentials of critical regionalisms in contemporary queer studies. The section explores the ways in which the complex regional/local formations of sexual dissidence emerges, if not being instrumentalized, as objects of theoretical inquiry when addressed within a global context by means of transnational formations…
Transnational Pride, Global Closets and Regional Formations of Screen Activism
This study explores three documentary projects from Turkey, namely Proudly Trans in Turkey (by Gabrielle Le Roux, 2012), My Child (by Can Candan, 2013), and Trans X Istanbul (by Maria Binder, 2014). Attempting to make visible various spaces and formations of LGBTQ activism in Turkey, these collaborative projects can be considered as practices of screen activism that critically reflect on their own circulation, spectatorial address, ethnographic a…
The monogamous/promiscuous optics in contemporary gay film
This article explores representations of same-sex intimacy in contemporary gay cinema by focusing on two films, Weekend (2011) and Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo (2016). Both films spatialise intimacy, which is reflected in a formal appeal to monogamous and promiscuous optics. What interests us here is how the relational politics of monogamy/promiscuity can be considered as stylistic and ideological registers in gay filmmaking. Informed by Leo Bersani’…
Aesthetics (6 works) · Art (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Queer (4 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Performative utterance (3 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works)