Elif Baysak

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Baysak is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist from Izmir, Turkey.

She always found herself drawn to the experimental nature of the arts, fascinated with avant-garde movements as their groundbreaking ideas have pushed the limits of what can be achieved through art. Her interest in the experimental journey has led her to pursue a degree in Theater at the New School, where she had the opportunity to integrate writing, video, philosophy, and psychology into practice. The practice of drawing emerged in her art as a meditative act to release the need for control and relieve her consciousness. Currently, she is a self-taught abstract visual artist and makes prints and zines.

Baysak works through her impulses vigorously experimenting through the power art grants to feel present, to explore and question existence within the natural, material, and spiritual landscapes.

“My Onliness”: A Kaleidoscope of Choreographed Absurdity

The mosaic absurdity that is My Onliness—the child of One-Eighth Theater, IRT Theater, and New Ohio Theater—is an avant-garde experience to say the least. The spirit of the Polish playwright,...

Capturing Avant-Garde

To recite the eloquent reflection of Christopher Innes, avant-garde describes “What is new at any given time: the leading edge of artistic experiment, which is continually outdated by the next step...

The Unconscious as a Machine: Part I – The Structuralist

What does it mean to fix someone? Is the human mind something fixable—like a machine? For something to be fixed, it needs to have set boundaries.  The unconscious can in fact be thought of as a...

Unconscious as a Machine: Part II – Post Structuralist

In Unconscious as a Machine: Part I - Structuralist, we have determined that the structuralist sees a fixed, unified, singular image - the originating event organizing one’s psychosexual development...

VALIE EXPORT: Strike of the Raw Female Experience

Born Watraud Lehner in 1940, the Austrian performance artist abandoned her predetermined identity by creating her own, on her terms. Her self-determined name served as a manifesto and a logo,...