Füsun Türetken is an interdisciplinary thinker, research-based artist, and professor, whose work spans visual culture, media theory, activism and critical inquiry.
Through speculative fiction, she uncovers erased histories and imagines alternative futures, often drawing from archival silences. The figure of the trickster frequently informs her approach to navigating institutional structures, subverting entrenched hierarchies.
Her doctoral thesis, On the Most Powerful Catalyst on the Planet, explored how metals function as quasi-agents, influencing political conflicts and shaping capitalist systems. The study examines the role of metals in finance, belief systems, geopolitical relations, digital bodies, and even climate-engineered weapons, shedding light on their complicity in processes of ecocide.