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SAFAK UYSAL was born in 1978, in Bodrum/Turkey. He graduated from METU Dept. of City and Regional Planning in 1999, and completed his master’s degree with a focus on body-space relationship at Bilkent University, De...

SAFAK UYSAL was born in 1978, in Bodrum/Turkey. He graduated from METU Dept. of City and Regional Planning in 1999, and completed his master’s degree with a focus on body-space relationship at Bilkent University, Dept. of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design in 2001. Continuing his doctorate studies in the Faculty of Art, Design, and Architecture at Bilkent, he received his Ph.D. in 2009 with a focus on architecture as a technology of framing experience. Uysal has been teaching since 1999 at various universities and educational structures on basic design, architectural design, visual arts & culture, applications in contemporary art, arts management and movement. He is carrying on his work with [laboratuar] performance arts research and project lab since 2003; and, finally, is an active member of the Association of the Contemporary Performing Arts Initiative (ACPAI) since its establishment in 2005. Having taken interest in dance in 1995, he worked with METU Contemporary Dance Group for the following 7 years during which he created numerous individual and group choreographies while also assuming a wide range of positions that extend from general coordination to graphic design as part of METU Int. Contemporary Dance Festival. Until today, besides his own works, he contributed to various artistic creations including two interactive installations titled “loophole” and “cammekan” (with Ozgur Ozakin and Umut Sumnu); “Home Sweet Home” (directed by Emre Koyuncuoglu); “Neden? Why? Cima? Incu?…” (choreographed by Mihran Tomasyan); “Parallel” (with Burge Ozturk), “Lungo Drom / Uzun Yol” (directed by Sule Ates); “In Trust in the Near East” and “The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband” (directed by Ozen Yula), “Hit-and-Miss” (with E. Celik, D. İleri, B. Murphy, T. Tuna); “Monday in the Sun” (garajistanbulpro – with Bedirhan Dehmen); “On Beauty of Love...” (choreographed by Beyhan Murphy); and “Human Writes” (by William Forsythe & Kendall Thomas). Uysal's other project-based contributions include: DBM's “Mediterranean Dance Map”; “The Sea of Dance: Art for intercultural dialogue”; CGD's (Association for the Beautification of Cihangir) “CihangirLink”; ACPAI's “Traveling Platform”, “Arts Education with the Roman Youth”, and “Independent Network: Cultural Management and Capacity Building for Contemporary Performing Arts”. Uysal's current research interests reflect the wide range of his theoretical and practical engagements including architectural criticism, cultural studies, post-structuralist thought, visual culture, performance studies, aesthetic theory, and new media technologies.