Didem Pekün

Didem Pekün’swork explores both artistic researchand practice. It conceptually deals with the production of subjectivitieswithin violent geographies, displacement, and the different forms they takeon-screen. Her studio practice includes documentaries and video installations whichare screened internationally and have received awards. She attended residencies(Delfina Foundation, Greenhouse and ZK/U Berlin). Her writings have beenpublished and presented on academic as well as online journals and presented atconferences. She is a founding member of Center for Spatial Justice (MAD).  Following a BA in Music at SOAS London, and an MAon Documentary at Goldsmiths, she holds a practice-based PhD from VisualCultures, Goldsmiths. Here she focused on essay films as platforms forproduction of molecular subjectivities within Turkey and produced a videoinstallation in tandem with her thesis. She is a faculty member at Media andVisual Arts Department at Koç University, a Research Fellow at Visual Cultures,Goldsmiths and a Visiting Teaching fellow at Budapest, Central EuropeanUniversity.