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  • My first artist book; generated from my performance, Making Sense is now at Printed Matter: see & purchase here
    “Making Sense” performans kitabını buradan satın alabilirsin.


  • Check my IG account for 2026 Social Dreaming Matrix series

    “Social Dreaming Matrix”  2026 serisi başlangıç tarihlerini IG hesabımdan takip edebilirsiniz. 






PERFORMANCE WORK



Metamorphika Studios, London
2024 Time to Kiss a Stranger, Participatory Performance


Performistanbul, Istanbul
2024, What If I Surrender to Time, Durational Performance, 21 hours


Feralpy Exhibiton, Flux Factory Residency, NYC
2023, ``We Were Never Meant to Survive``


The Crypt Gallery, London
2023, ``Polyphonic`` Group Show,
Scattered Nomadic Episodes with Meng Qing


Tate Late X Royal College of Art
2023,  Pneuma, Participatory Performance


Istanbul Cinema Museum, Istanbul
2022,
  Head to Head,  Participatory Performance



EDUCATION



MA, Contemporary Art Practice
2022-2023 Royal College of Art, London


Select Group Show
2021 Mamut Art Project , Istanbul


Facilitation
2022 Body as Erotic Site, Laboratory

2020-... Social Dreaming Matrix, Method 



SOCIAL DREAMING MATRIX FACILITATION

2020  The Laboratory for Social Choreography at Duke University, in partnership with the Centre for Social Dreaming











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BIO

Ulku Caglayan is a practice-led artist working across performance and
facilitation.

She uses performance as a generative process through
which text, spoken word, sound, installation, and moving image emerge.

Drawing from dream states, pre-verbal experience and embodied
imagination, she creates situations that examine how human behaviour
emerges in real time.

She is a facilitator of the Social Dreaming Matrix and is also trained
in Intimacy Coordination for film.

Her first artist book, Making Sense, is distributed by institutions
including Printed Matter, Claire de Rouen, and Jameel Arts Centre.
She was also the founder of Circuit, a socially engaged arts and culture
organization. For Circuit’s portfolio, click here.


ARTIST STATEMENT

Her work is invested in ethics and politics of rehearsals, workshops and foregrounds radical togetherness.

She uses these structured environments to create visceral performancess and guides them through improvised speech and readings from constructed texts where trust, attention, imagination and relational dynamics become active elements of the work itself.






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