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Sex and Networking - How Are They Similar?

Humans need humans. Contents Foreword I. What if I can’t do it at all? II. Intentional downgrade after a break III. The win-win principle...

Apr 13, 20254 min read

Public Statement from Narcissists' Union

We, the narcissists, felt the need to make a statement due to the increasing number of posts on social media that attempt to decode our...

Apr 13, 20252 min read

Cruising

Outdoor gay sex culture is traditionally preserved in an anonymous park in İstanbul. A low-resolution night, a camera dancing the choreography of cruising, the formal voice-over of a horny narrator, and bodies that imprint their absence. It is an ethnography of macho lust in the dark, spanning from the local to the European. Video, 2024, 6' Text, video and editing Nadir Sönmez Music Mert Kocadayı It is produced for the video series project of the Altyazı Cinema Association wi

Apr 13, 20251 min read

Kopenhag

Simian Gallery So, it was a lovely travel.

Apr 6, 20251 min read

New York MoMA Doc Fortnight

Seen Unseen: An Anthology of (Auto)Censorship was part of Doc Fortnight 2025 at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. MoMA’s...

Mar 9, 20251 min read

Rotterdam International Film Festival

Seen Unseen: An Anthology of (Auto)Censorship was part of International Film Festival Rotterdam 2025. Desktop images, letters, text...

Feb 1, 20251 min read

İstanbul SAHA Studio

I am selected as a resident artist for SAHA Studio 8th term between June-December 2024. Designed by SAHA as a program of research,...

Dec 27, 20241 min read

Gay Tourist

Within the scope of SAHA Studio, Nadir Sönmez conducted a research process focusing on gay tourism in the world and produced an installation that incarnates the way his sexuality brought him together with men from different social segments: The Balance Sheet of My Shyness featured touristic pins on a chain suspended from the ceiling, labeled with the occupations of the men with whom he had sexual relations to date. As one of the sociological expansions of this work, a massa

Dec 20, 20242 min read

Amsterdam BUTT & One Minutes

My film Wrestlers' Feet has been selected by BUTT magazine for The One Minutes Series 'Fixations'. An overwhelming total of 115 films were submitted. ‘Fixations’ offers 25 minutes of turn-ons submitted from Argentina, Belgium, Colombia, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, Serbia, Turkey, United Kingdom and United States. A hot mess of cum rags, a pasta-plated p*ssy, dark rooms, and wedgies.

Oct 25, 20241 min read