Eray Çayli

Eray Çayli, scholar of extractivism and visual culture in Northern Kurdistan, discusses his book Earthmoving. He traces how war, legal change, and rivers become sites of extraction. He explores artist-run spaces, camera reflexivity, and how visuality both conceals and contests displacement. Short, vivid scenes—hafriyat trucks, river repair rituals, and collaborative art practices—frame the region’s colonial present.