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Book launch and Q&A: Işıl Eğrikavuk – Global Protests Through Art
June 12 @ 18:00 - 21:00
Moderated by Itır Erhart
Wednesday, June 12, 18:00
What does a PhD thesis written by an artist look like? How is it presented and read? How do artists contribute to academic literature by conducting scientific research, yet not without giving up their artistic input? Işıl Eğrikavuk‘s book Global Protests Through Art: collaboration, co-creation, interconnectedness, published in English in 2024 by Books People Places and Universität der Künste Berlin, seeks answers to these questions and is about bringing the worlds of artistic and academic endeavours together.
Işıl Eğrikavuk’s book, which is a reworked rendition of her PhD thesis, was sparked by the Gezi protests that started in Istanbul in 2013 and spread in many cities. It points to certain intersections between the protests and her ongoing research of community arts through an artistic research project. The book invites readers to look into these intersections between the Gezi protests and community arts (socially engaged, dialogue-based art practices) as well as a hands-on collaborative arts project Eğrikavuk realized by working with six different arts and ecology collectives from Turkey.
The event will take place in the form of a conversation with Işıl Eğrikavuk, moderated by Itır Erhart, and will continue with the participation of different artist collectives that Eğrikavuk worked with during her research.
The talk will be in Turkish and registration is not required to participate.
About the book:
Global Protests Through Art – collaboration, co-creation, interconnectedness
by Işıl Eğrikavuk
Softcover, 13 x 19 cm, 108 p.
with over 10 photographs
in English
Books People Places and Universität der Künste Berlin
ISBN 978-3-949944-03-1
[Image: Işıl Eğrikavuk, “Global Protests Through Art – collaboration, co-creation, interconnectedness” book cover]