Tentacle is a queer, intersectional feminist cultural infrastructure for designers, artists, academics, writers, and poets working across speculative, critical, and experimental practices.
In a cultural ecosystem dominated by extractive platforms and metrics-driven visibility, Tentacle proposes an alternative way of holding artistic work. Rather than optimizing for reach or engagement, Tentacle centers context, relation, and care.
Tentacle is not a portfolio platform. It is a living archive and connective mesh — one that traces how ideas travel, how practices influence one another, and how cultural labor is sustained over time.
Visibility is not ranked or gamified. Relationships are foregrounded. Tentacle understands publishing, visibility, and archiving as collective processes rather than individual achievements.
Care is central to Tentacle's structure. The platform documents and values practices such as listening, responding, mentoring, maintaining archives, and holding space for unfinished or slow-moving work. These forms of care are treated not as extras, but as essential cultural labor.
Tentacle exists in relation — to other platforms, collectives, archives, and networks. It is porous by design, committed to collaboration, and constantly evolving.
Tentacle was initiated by İpek Erdöl (Editor / Designer) and Janset Genel (Editor / Project Manager).
It grows through a web of artists and thinkers whose productions are linked through shared questions, references, collaborations, and feedback.
Tentacle grows through invitation and resonance, not open registration. If you'd like to propose yourself or someone else for the network, write to us with a brief introduction of the practice and how it might connect to existing nodes.