bak.ma collective

The bak.ma collective maintains the infrastructure and organizes the content and activities of the online archive bak.ma consisting of video collections of audiovisual media of different formats and lengths but mostly digital raw footage of activist recordings, feature documentaries, and videos from Turkey and elsewhere.

Özge Çelikaslan’s visual and academic works focus on counter-media narratives, overlooked moving image artifacts, and archival gaps through orphan images. She completed her PhD in media studies at the Braunschweig University of Art, Braunschweig/Germany, where she conducted extensive research on archives as commons. She has produced testimonial videos, documentaries, and experimental videos that have been exhibited in art institutions, festivals, and biennials. In 2014, she co-founded the bak.ma social movements digital media archive, where she remains an active member. Her monograph Archiving the Commons: Looking through the Lens of bak.ma was published by dpr-barcelona in 2024.

Bilge Emir (1993, Ankara/Turkey), working in illustration, design, and video, is a graduate of the MA Visual Communication at weißensee school of art and design berlin/Germany and has been based in Berlin since 2017. Her work explores the intersections of power structures, visual representation, and the politics of imagery. Her works have been featured in numerous anthologies, magazines, and independent or self-published projects, as well as exhibited in group shows at venues such as SAVVY Contemporary, the neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK), Galerie im Turm, and Lantz’scher Skulpturenpark in Düsseldorf/Germany. Besides her solo work, she values collective production and self-organized practices.