Sezgin Boynik (1977), lives and works in Helsinki. He has completed his Ph.D. in Jyväskylä University Social Science department on the topic of Cultural Politics of Black Wave in Yugoslavia. He has been publishing on punk, the relation between aesthetics and politics, on cultural nationalism, Situationist International, Yugoslavian cinema and Soviet avant-garde. He co-edited reader "Nationalism and Contemporary Art" (with Minna L. Henriksson, Rhizoma & EXIT, Prishtina, 2007), and co-authored book on "History of Punk and Underground in Turkey, 1978-1999" (with Tolga Guldalli, BAS, Istanbul, 2008). Also he is author of art books "Counter-constructivist Model" (co-authored with M.L. Henriksson, Labyrinth Press, Stockholm, 2012),"Still Stealing Steel: Historical-Materialist Study of Zaum" (Rab-Rab Publication, Tbilisi, 2014), "Noise After Babel: Language Unrestrained" (Spector Books, Leipzig, 2015), "On Lenin: Atlases, Herbariums, Rituals" (Checkpoint Helsinki, 2017). He is founder and editor of Rab-Rab: Journal for Political and Formal Inquiries in Art (www.rabrab.fi).