Published as part of the book series of the University of Applied Art Vienna, Edition Angewandte | De Gruyter in 2024, this book is the accumulation of the Octopus Programme (2019-2022), which was designed as a guided researchbased educational programme that encouraged artistic research and production-based collaborations in different geographical regions. The Octopus Programme developed new critical…

The exhibition Ivy/Sarmaşık, accompanied by a book edited by Başak Şenova, presented texts by A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh, Başak Şenova, and Jonatan Habib Engqvist. Both the exhibition and the book delved into the enigmatic and paradoxical connotations of “ivy,” exploring its branching narratives, perspectives, entities, and realities that coexisted and intertwined. The artworks featured in the…

Edited by Basak Senova, this monograph offers a detailed view of Barbara Holub’s extensive body of work as well as her projects with transparadiso at the interface of art, architecture, and urbanism, for which she coined the term “silent activism.” Rather than directly propagating activism, Holub persistently creates performative situations for dialogic action with the…

January 2019 Shadow Optics. Lina Selander. In conjunction with the exhibition at Kunst Haus Wien, a book edited by Basak Senova published that discusses the ideological, political, ecological, aesthetic and methodological aspects of the project. The book starts with a preface by Betina Leidl and Verena Kaspar, then continues with essays by Elke Krasny, Björn Norberg,…

September 2019 theDISCORD. Benji Boyadgian. was produced alongside a long-term, research-based project on ‘hydraulic tiles’ and their stories, accompanied with an exhibition co-curated by Basak Senova and Jack Persekian in Jerusalem. theDISCORD is edited by Basak Senova and published by Al Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art. theDISCORD discusses aesthetic, historical, political, social, and philosophical aspects hovering…