THIS EVENT IS COMPLETED
This workshop, designed by doctoral researcher and artist Merve Kurt (University of Dundee) and psychologist Şeyma Çeliksoydan, proposes thinking about resistance not only within organized political action, but also within everyday life. It aims to explore together the traces of resistance that emerge in memory, language, cultural production, solidarity, dignity, and our ways of holding on to life. In this context, art is approached as a creative ground for sharing experience, making meaning, rendering visible, and thinking together.
At the center of the workshop lies the idea of epistemic justice. Each participant takes part in this space as the bearer of their own experience, knowledge, and truth; that is, not only as someone who listens or speaks, but as a subject who produces knowledge. Rather than establishing a structure that speaks on behalf of participants, the workshop aims to open a space that draws from existing literature while primarily facilitating thinking, listening, and creating together.
Together, we will reflect on the sources that give us strength in everyday life, that allow us to breathe, to resist, and to endure. Through the possibilities opened by art, we will explore the intersections between the personal and the collective. The workshop is designed not as a one-time meeting, but as the first step of an ongoing process: coming together at intervals to be determined collectively with participants in order to build a collective archive of everyday resistance.
The aim of this gathering is not to present a finished outcome, but to plant the first seed of an evolving archive of everyday resistance—one that we will think through, create, and grow together over time.
Language: Turkish
Participation: Open to all. Those interested in any form of art are especially encouraged to participate.
Capacity: 15 participants