ABSTRACT
This chapter draws from the artistic research project Komşuda Pişer, Bize de Düşer (Maybe We Will Benefit from Our Neighbour’s Good Fortune) initiated in 2017, in which I worked with six art and environmental collectives in Turkey. In observing the certain qualities of recent political protests around the globe and in my home country Turkey, this chapter reflects on the potentials of community art practices and the significance of collaborative and artistic research for transformative knowledge production. I argue that, in a socio-political atmosphere with limited freedom of speech, collective art models hold the potential to connect people with one another and serve to meet emotional needs, such as freedom of expression, feeling accepted, connected and safe.
