Işıl Eğrikavuk’s book, which is a reworked rendition of her 2021 PhD thesis, was sparked by the Gezi Protests that started in Istanbul in 2013 and spread in many different cities. It points to certain intersections between the protests and her ongoing research of community arts through an artistic research project.
The book offers the readerto look into the interesections between the Gezi protests and the community arts (socially engaged, dialogue-based art practices) as well as a hands-
on collaborative arts project, which Eğrikavuk realized by working with six different arts and ecology collectives from Turkey.