Onur Tayranoğlu
born in Istanbul, TR, currently based in Helsinki, FI.
I am a performance artist working with various mediums such as text, video, interactive digital media and installation through the framework of performativity. My interests rely on questions related to mundane politics and emancipation. Through my practice, I search for counter-playing and hacking strategies for surviving and responding to the hegemonic, oppressive and marginalizing structures within specific situations in relation to larger social realities.
Besides realizing performances within the contexts of art spaces and festivals, I continuously explore and experiment on various sites on the internet from social media platforms to games with different levels of anonymity. Through these explorations, I am trying to expand the very narrow, exclusive, gate-kept definition and the making of art.
Education
2021-2023
Live Art and Performance Studies, MA, University of Arts Helsinki,
Helsinki, Finland.
2018-2021
Arts, Media and Society, BA, Leiden University,
Leiden, the Netherlands. 2020-2021
Game Studies and Cultural Analysis, Minor, Leiden University,
Leiden, the Netherlands.
Artist in Residency
2022
UrbanApa Mini-residency,
at Forum Box,
Helsinki, Finland.
2021-2023
Live Art and Performance Studies, MA, University of Arts Helsinki,
Helsinki, Finland.
2018-2021
Arts, Media and Society, BA, Leiden University,
Leiden, the Netherlands. 2020-2021
Game Studies and Cultural Analysis, Minor, Leiden University,
Leiden, the Netherlands.
Artist in Residency
2022
UrbanApa Mini-residency,
at Forum Box,
Helsinki, Finland.
Exhibition and Performances
2023
Glitchz, Pixelache Festival.
Helsinki, Finland.
Punch Up! Resistance & Glitter, Finnish National Theatre.
Helsinki, Finland.
Plug’n’Play, MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre.
Helsinki, Finland.
7.8.7.5, The Grey Space in the Middle.
The Hague, The Netherlands.
2022Lapsody Festival / Gathering for Rehearsing Hospitalities,
Theatre Academy of Uniarts Helsinki / Frame Contemporary Art Finland.
Helsinki, Finland.
Mad House Helsinki,
Helsinki, Finland.
Re:Place, Aalto University ViCCA,
Kalasataman Vapaakaupungin Olohuone.
Helsinki, Finland.
2021
Delta - an Ocean Call, Museum of Impossible Forms.
Helsinki, Finland.
The Posture of Impermanence / Huokoinen ele, Artsi Museum Vantaa.
Helsinki, Finland.
Absence Festival, ArtEZ University of the Arts.
Arnhem, the Netherlands.
2020
Alt Kat: Learning and Interaction Space,
Istanbul Foundation for Arts and Culture (IKSV). Istanbul, Turkey.