Bio
Rojda Tuğrul is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher whose practice explores identity in relation to space and time. Her early work focused on the impact of war on ecological and cultural heritage in Kurdish territories, examining how conflict reshapes landscapes, culture and collective memory. More recently, her research has expanded towards questions of collective cognition and consciousness across human and ecological systems. She holds an MSc in Veterinary Science and a PhD in Practice from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Project Description
Landscape of the Archives, Archives of Landscape explores the archive as a living and contested terrain of memory, absence and future imagination. Working with the archives of the
Kurdistan Center for Arts & Culture, Rojda Tuğrul investigates how histories of cultural heritage, ecological transformation and political violence are preserved, transmitted or erased. Combining archival research, oral histories, workshops and field recordings, the project culminates in a multi-channel video and sound installation that reactivates archival materials and explores new relationships between landscape, memory and future possibilities.
