Landscape Fragments approaches landscape not as a fixed backdrop, but as an archive where traces accumulate, disperse, and are continually reassembled. Memory and witnessing are understood not merely as human processes, but as a relational field extending across matter, living beings, and non-human entities.
This perspective reopens discussion on the relationship between humans, nature, and matter. Violence is considered not only through moments of visible destruction, but also as a process that can be traced in situations where relationships weaken, care and attentiveness are withdrawn, and forms of entanglement are interrupted.
Practices such as tracing, sensing, and attentive observation emerge as ways of making these relationships visible. Engagement with the non-human generates a form of relationality grounded less in speaking than in sensing, and less in looking than in coexisting.
Within this framework, alongside narratives of destruction and loss, attention is also drawn to unexpected forms of resilience and new kinds of kinship. In doing so, it proposes a space for thinking toward alternative possibilities of living together.
Tuba Emiroğlu completed her undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Political Sciences, Ankara University, and received her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Sociology at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. Her doctoral research focused on the island of Imbros (Gökçeada), examining the witnessing of political violence, ruined landscapes, and debates around hauntology. Emiroğlu is a researcher whose work centers on the body, movement, sensation, and landscape.
Her research explores the relationships between bodies, landscapes, and non-human entities through sensory ethnography and place-based research practices. Drawing on her fieldwork in Gökçeada, she investigates the possibilities of thinking through images, sounds, smells, and embodied experience. She continues to deepen these inquiries through performances and interdisciplinary artistic and scholarly productions.
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