Aslı Hatipoğlu (TR/TH) is an interdisciplinary artist whose social practice focuses on curating participatory dinners or installations that shed light on how culinary history and agricultural politics are changing our relationship to food and other species. From working with micro-scale bacteria and yeasts responsible for fermentation to invasive species such as the Japanese knotweed, Asli is engaged in critical research. By engaging in research on insects such as the domesticated silkworm, her aim is to raise questions on the relationship of humans to other species with a critical stance towards the production systems today. Besides working often site-specific, story-telling is a medium in her practice to get across her research. By creating an unreliable narrator and shifting between roles of artist and tour guide, she traces a fine line between fiction and reality, between science, art and commercial industry. The interrogative nature of her performance lectures add a layer of reality whereas the intimacy, abundance and lightness of sharing food acts as a powerful and compelling vehicle to have people speak and participate in public to raise nuanced political questions.

At Villa Filanda Antonini, she is researching the history of radicchio, prosecco as well as the lost silk industry. She gathers historical and physical materials from around the region as well as engaging with producers in order to construct a story. She will use her research to create a guided installation where she will shift her narrative of an artist to a tour-guide, merging fiction and reality, seeking the potential of a speculative future of land-use.

Asli deepened her knowledge of fermentation during her residency at the Food Lab Jan van Eyck Academie 2020-2021, as well as completing her post-graduate programme on artistic research at a.pass (Advanced performance and scenography studies) in Brussels. She participated in festivals such as Food Art Film Festival JVE (NL), Taking Root–Food Art Film Festival CCA Glasgow (UK), Foodculture Days Vevey (CH), Oerol Festival Terschelling (NL), Japanese Knotweed Festival at Mediamatic (NL), Zamus Theaterhaus Cologne (DE) and Bazaar Festival (CZ). Her works have been exhibited and performed in places such as Zuiderzee Museum Enkhuizen, Radius CCA Delft, Het Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam, Jan Van Eyck Academie Maastricht, Kunsthaus NRW Kornelimünster Germany, Kafkarna Prague, Hectolitre Art space Brussels, Lantz’scher park Dusseldorf and A.pass Brussels.