Tülay Haspulat
Tülay Haspulat was born in 1994 in Samsun. She graduated from Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Department of Architecture in 2020. She received the Special Jury Award at Archiprix Turkey with her architectural graduation project called Non Standard-Pataphysics Museum. She received an Honorable Mention with her teammate Emre Taş in the 48 Hours Ideas Competition of the Turkish Architecture Foundation. In 2021, she completed the Contemporary Art and Curatorial Program organized in collaboration with Akbank Art and Open Dialogue Istanbul.
She worked in various fields such as design, art, and cultural heritage and participated in events. She completed the certificate program 'Conservation and Recovery of Archaeological Assets' offered within the scope of Koç University-Anamed's SARAT Project. Interned at Manavgat, Side Archaeological Excavations; she worked on the measurement and documentation of architectural inventories in the Aphrodisias Archaeological Excavations conducted by Oxford University and New York University. After working as a designer for Archeology and Art Publications for a while, she worked on documentation in the Ancient City of Phokaia under the Izmir Museum Directorate and designed an exhibition at the Izmir Archeology Museum. She works in the organization team of the 8th International Sinop Biennial. She is also developing a science fiction story-producing project called Matris with her teammate Emre Taş.
Exceptional Transformation
When we look at today, we see that our current universe has multiplied the pool of material and intangible content with intelligent systems.
Every day we witness the introduction of new technologies and concepts into our lives. As these technologies and concepts transform us, our ideologies change, and we perceive reality differently day by day: we and the world are transforming.
The Exceptional Transformation is based on the idea of 'pataphysics' coined by Alfred Jarry in the late 19th century: Jarry says, 'Pataphysics is the science of the universe, beyond physics and metaphysics.' The pataphysics perfective sees everything from an absurd point of view. This view is a non-Apollonic Dionysian view, spontaneous and unusual. Everything that exists in the universe defines an 'exceptional' state, and the universe is never stable, it is transforming. What we call ‘Reality’ is the relations derived from these exceptions.
At this point, pataphysics offers a new perspective that we can operate to understand our day, making our view of everything unique. What is reality? What is an exception? How does the evolving world, which changes and transforms by our perceptions, work? The curatorial work begins by shedding light on the exceptions in which we live, but which we cannot discern. It continues with a view that reality is not fixed but constantly produces 'possible new ones'. While material structures that undergo perceptual transformation feed our abstract world, our abstract world creates our concrete reality. Reality is constantly deriving; from the smallest to the largest, the reality is in the transformation of the exception.