Göksu Kunak

Göksu Kunak is an artist, writer, and researcher based in Berlin. Göksu’s interest lies in queer methodologies (especially chronopolitics) and hybrid texts that deal with the performative lingo(s) of contemporary lifestyles. As a non-native English writer, their texts play with multilingualism and syntax. Influenced by Arabesk culture and late modernities, Göksu imagines new situations out of real encounters that point out the problematics of hetero-patriarchal structures. Orientalism, self-orientalization (the perception of the ‘Eastern’, and how the ‘Eastern’ see themselves through this construction), as well as Eastern masculinities in relation to state governmentality, camouflage, and self-censorship are other interests of them. Göksu was nominated for the Dieter-Ruckhaberle-Förderpreis and was one of the winners of the Live Works Award Vol. 8 at Centrale FIES. They are one of the participants of the BPA//Berlin program for artists 2023/2024. Previously, they shared their works at Kaaitheater, Sophiensæle, Pogo Bar – KW Institute for Contemporary Art, deSingel – International Arts Center (Antwerp), Next Waves Theater (Berlin), Akademie der Künste, Bergen Assembly 2019, Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève, among others.