biography
"My work is at the intersection of scholarship, art and activism. My praxis encompasses distinctive modes of embodied and affective scholarship, combining the methodologies of autoethnography, digital humanities, oral history, critical and cultural theory with musical performance, scholarly prose, and graphic non-fiction storytelling."
Dr Can Yalcinkaya is an education manager, researcher, multidisciplinary artist, editor, curator, translator, and musician whose work is situated at the intersection of scholarship, art, and activism.
He earned his Ph.D. in Media from Macquarie University in 2013. Since 2007, he has held various roles including lecturer, tutor, unit convenor, and course director at the same institution.
Can has been an active participant in the comics, zine and underground music scenes of Australia and Turkiye. He is one of the organisers of the Other Worlds Zine Fair, Sydney's largest zine fair since 2014. He is also the head of Selection Committee for Comic Art Workshop and a committee member of Refugee Art Project.
Along with Dr Safdar Ahmed, he founded the anti-racist Muslim metal band, Hazeen and performed in art venues such as the Museum of Contemporary Art and Cement Fondu. Hazeen was featured in an ABC Arts Documentary titled "You See Monsters" (dir. Tony Jackson, 2017). Hazeen released their debut album Sovereign Murders in 2022 through German music label Piranha Records with funding from documenta. They performed at the MCA and Mona Foma among other venues.
