Elif Baysak
Elif Baysak is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist from Turkey and holds a BA in Theater from The New School. She has always found herself drawn to the experimental nature of the arts, with a focus on avant-garde movements as their groundbreaking ideas have pushed the limits of what can be achieved through art. Working through her impulses and desires, she experiments with video, drawing, writing, and performance.

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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, ...

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, ...

VALIE EXPORT: Strike of the Raw Female Experience
Born Watraud Lehner in 1940, the Austrian performance artist abandoned her predetermined identity by creating her ...

“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 ...

Capturing Avant-Garde
To recite the eloquent reflection of Christopher Innes, avant-garde describes “What is new at any given time: the ...
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