Art in Permacrisis #9: Gizem Üstüner’s Low-Budget Projects

Gizem Üstüner is an artist and researcher based in Amsterdam, whose work is a direct confrontation with the realities of precarity, migration, and womanhood. In recent years, she’s been traveling to Yogyakarta, Athens, Istanbul, and back to Amsterdam for the long-term ‘Low-Budget Projects’. Wherever she goes, Gizem seeks to build solidarity through one-on-one exchanges with peers navigating struggles similar to hers. Over coffees, cigarettes, nights out, or moments of protest, she listens, connects, and shares in the everyday tactics and resistance strategies that cultural practitioners develop in response to the cultural, economic, and political infrastructures they inhabit. In this podcast, we discuss the different chapters of Low Budget Projects, and what they tell us about transparency, solidarity, humor, and resistant joy among art workers’ communities.

Gizem Üstüner, ‘I Don’t Want to Work Like This Anymore’, 2024. Picture by Lin Chun Yao.

Links & References

Low-Budget Projects IG: instagram.com/lowbudgetprojects
Low-Budget Projects Amsterdam: https://framerframed.nl/en/projecten/low-budget-projects-do-not-expect-anything-out-of-the-blue
Low-Budget Projects Athens: yellowbrick.gr/step-47-low-budget-projects
Gizem on Stegi Radio: stegi.radio/artist/gizem-uestuener

About

Art in Permacrisis is a podcast on the organization of art workers in the face of the ever-growing stack of crises, published by the Institute of Network Cultures and Caradt. This episode was hosted by Sepp Eckenhaussen and edited by Salome Berdzenishvili.

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