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Asli Serbest and Mona Mahall work in collaborations across spatial, image, sound, and text practices, at the intersection of art and architecture. They often begin their projects by investigating minor finds, fragments, figures, sites, and rites that exhibit discrepancies, but imply spatial agility and generosity, as well as poetic and political possibilities. Whether it be in the form of installation, model, video, sound, exhibition, or publication, all their projects follow a feminist methodology. As such, they constitute less fixed spaces and objects than non-linear physical or digital versions and speculations that share an interest in serial variation and possible distortions of form and scale. They play and replay architectural histories, events, and movements and rethink the re-production of space and implied power relations. The aim is to collectively (re-)consider rejected knowledge and to find alternative modes of organizing our lives, schools, online and offline movements.

Serbest/Mahall exhibit and publish internationally, including at the Biennale di Venezia, Ural Biennial, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien Berlin, Riverrun Istanbul, Württembergische Kunstverein Stuttgart, Pinakothek der Moderne Munich, Storefront for Art and Architecture New York, HKW Berlin, Vancouver Art Gallery, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, New Museum New York; in e-flux journal, Volume Magazine, Perspecta, Istanbul Art News, etc.

They are the editors of the independent magazine Junk Jet.

In 2019, they curated the 7th International Sinop Biennial under the title of "A Politics of Location." They live and work in Berlin.

Projects

• Digital Twin — interactive 3D environment, Tarabya / Berlin, 2020–ongoing
• Homes of the Internet — series of C-prints, research, text, 2015/2021
• Sinop Biennial 7 / A Politics of Location — conceptual framework and curation, 2019
• Köçek Pisti — research, spatial installation, video, 2016
• Self-Cleaning Houses — model, acryl glass, stones, miniature plant, foam pump, 2018
• n minus 1 — installation, cardboard, tape, kitchen paper, 2019
• The House Alice Built — installation, MDF, tee glasses, prints, text, video, 2018
• Feminist Utopian Spaces — speculative research and production, 2018
• Dauerwelle: Travelling Art Space — concept and spatial intervention, 2018
• Temporary Cities: Carpets — spatial intervention, printed carpets, audio installation, 2017
• Temporary Cities: Gate — object on castors, 2017
• Natural Wifi: Los Angeles — installation, various media, 2015
• spuren spuren: Athens — collaborative speculative research and production, 2015
• officeus: Venice — site-specific and speculative work, 2014
• Junk Jet Magazine — collaborative publication, ongoing since 2010

Texts

• Feminist Spatial Utopias Lexicon — open lexicon, 2018 ongoing
• Spatial Inserts — Mona Mahall, 2019
• Creatures from the South East — Şener Özmen, Asli Serbest and Mona Mahall, 2019
• Everyone's Monuments are Everyone Else's Documents — Asli Serbest and Mona Mahall, 2017
• Homes of the Internet (text) — Asli Serbest and Mona Mahall, 2020
• Junk Jet 3: flux-us! flux-you! — Asli Serbest and Mona Mahall (eds.), 2010

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