As an author and frequent editor of art- and culture scientific publications, like “Arta” or “art-ist” for example, he is engaged in subversive resistance movements in former Yugoslavia in the seventies and eighties, radical political ideas and the New Slovenian Art. Apart from sociological and political subjects Boynik writes for music magazines and fanzines. He published the first article about the German Krautrock bands Can and Faust to appear in a Turkish music magazine, a very idiosyncratic analysis utilizing Marxist terminology. At the Punk! Kongress Sezgin Boynik will critically examine the relationship between hidden history, Situationist ideas and punk. Sezgin Boynik was born 1977 in Prizren/Kosovo (former Yugoslavia, today under the administration of an interim government installed by the United Nations called UNMIK = United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo). After finishing high school he left his country and continued to live in Turkey for seven years. He studied Sociology at the Mimar San University in Istanbul and wrote a thesis with the title: “Aesthetic Political Strategies of the Situationist International”. In Turkey he worked for various sociological and music related magazines like “Calinti” and “Asosyoloji”. He published articles about kitsch and modernism, radical political movements and wrote critical texts about the avant-garde. He brought out a politically orientated straight edge fanzine by the name Suurli Bi Sey, meaning something like Conscious Thing with articles about Walter Benjamin, Sonic Youth and the Turkish underground. While “Suurli Bi Sey” contained a lot of serious text, his next product a fanzine called “King Kong Guerrilla” was definitely more fun and relaxed. In addition to that, Boynik regularly publishes articles in the Kosovarian magazine “Arta” and the bilingual magazine “art-ist” (Turkish/English). He wrote about the philosopher and psychoanalytic Slavoj Zizek and his influence on Laibach and the New Slovenian Art. The current issue number 8, which he edited, is dealing exclusively with the Situationist Internationale. Besides his journalistic and scientific activities Boynik formed the band Chapa Churek in 1998 with his brother Engin. They released the two albums “Sadece Bir Deneyim” (2000) and “Das Musiche Experimentalische” (2004) with dirty, experimental and for the most part improvised noise rock. The band doesn’t exist anymore but there is a follow up by the name of Roza Luksemburg. Right now Sezgin Boynik is living in his hometown Prizrin and is working as lecturer at the philological faculty for Oriental studies and Turkology. |
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