Core members of the group are Guven Incirlioglu and Hakan Topal, whose transatlantic collaborations took the form of media projects and installations.
xurban_collective's projects instigate the questioning, examination, and discussion of contemporary politics, theory, and ideology, utilizing documentary photography, video, new media and text.
The collective focuses specifically on areas of regional conflicts, military spatial confinement, urban segregation and neoliberal exclusion strategies.
In 2010, he was the guest editor of the ArteEast Quarterly Journal’s Silence issue, finished a documentary film project on a major late 18th-century Austro-Bavarian sculptor, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, commissioned by Neue Galerie New York.
Topal is working on an upcoming book project about the idea of collateral damage and condolence payments in globalized wars, supported by Prince Claus Fund.