*practical po-et
Zeynep Yılmaz is a writer working with long and short form poetry woven in the audible, spatial and organizational conditions of language; writing auto-fiction, spoken-word performance, and curatorial exhibition texts.
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Education
2019-2021 BA Leiden University Arts, Media and Society
2020-2021 Leiden University Minor in Gender & Sexuality Studies
2013-2018 Lycée Français Saint-Joseph d’Istanbul
2016 Boston University module in Creative Writing
May 2023 / short term - Garage Gallery Prague, CZ
Publications
2022 Politiks Kills Poetry, with Babi Badalov (AZR), Tariq Heijboer (NL), and Les Conseils Superflus, NL
2022 Decent writers don’t feed the narrative, 15 editions, self published
Performances
2022 I used to be a mountain, with Aleksandra Komsta, Instrument Inventors (iii) & Flipchart, The Hague, NL
2022 Posting poetry doesn’t make a poet, “Filling the Void” with The Spectrum Space, The Grey Space in the Middle, NL
2022 Devir-Teslim, De Perzen carpet store The Hague, NL
2022 Untitled: Threading Months together with Bassel Halabi, Students for Palestine, Royal Academy of Art The Hague, NL
Performed For
2022 Tears are the lubricant of life (Noor Remmen), MA Artistic Research Graduation Show, Royal Academy of Art The Hague
2021 Rehersal (Bo Wielders and Natalia Nikoniuk), BA Fine Arts Graduation Show, Royal Academy of Art The Hague, NL
Solo & Group
2023 Tip of The Tongue, Garage Gallery Prague, CZ
2022 Decent writers don’t feed the narrative, Snacks Amsterdam, NL
2022 Devir-Teslim, De Perzen carpet store, The Hague, NL
2022 Gapfilling (as Practice), “Relational Terms”, The Spectrum Space, NL
Exhibition Texts For
2023 0,9999... (Selver Yıldırım), YAYA / Viable, İstanbul, TR
2023 Plug’n’Play (Onur Tayranoğlu), MUU Contemporary Art Center, Helsinki, FL
2022 A-B-C-aptured for Ester Gašparova’s “Metallic Taste of Patience”, Royal Academy of Art The Hague, NL
2021 UA006050455LV_ (Ferdinand Waas and Tim Rosenbaum), White Box Gallery, Oslo, NO
2021 Tongue Scraping Journal, dialogical poem installed for Michaela Caganova, “All Cockroaches are Beautiful”, The Spectrum Space, The Hague, NL
Selected Writings & Poems
2023 “Absolute Clarity”, Barefoot Collective Journal
2022 “Absolute Clarity”, 2X2 periodical, US
2022 “Assortment II”, 2512 periodical, NL
2022 “01 10”, 2X2 periodical, US
2022 “Gut Seaming or Gut Semen”, Mosquito Newspaper, NL
2022 “I found a chaos trying to put something else in order”, Mosquito Newspaper, NL
2022 Three poems for Sunday Mornings at the River Summer Anthology, amazon.com
2021 “by now I know” longlisted LS Poetry Contest, NL
Translations
2022 Counter-Surveillance: H2 by Artists+Allies x Hebron (AHH), project text
2021 My Turkey My Turkey My Heaven, video subtitles, Batuhan Keskiner (TR), MA Photography and Society, Royal Academy of Art The Hague, NL
Copywriting, Creative and Assisting
2022-present / BetterThings Studio, Istanbul, TR
2021-2022 / Second Best Selected Treasures, Den Haag, NL
2022 / Visual identity for Janus Media podcasts, TR
2019 / assistant, Istanbul Jazz Festival, TR
2017 / assistant, 15th Istanbul Biennial “a good neighbour”, TR