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Art, Gender and Displacement
Festival-Based Participatory Action Research for Co-Creating Political Expression and Solidarity
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What happens when art becomes a method of survival, solidarity, and political voice?
Art, Gender and Displacement explores how REBLOOM II, a festival held in Istanbul, created a non-extractive space for migrant artists navigating displacement, gendered precarity, and urban uncertainty. Through interviews, collective dialogue, artistic practice, and object-based storytelling, the report shows how displaced artists transform memory, bodily experience, and everyday objects into acts of testimony and resistance.
Set against Istanbul’s paradoxical role as both a city of creative possibility and structural constraint, the report highlights the politics of visibility, the gendered dynamics of artistic ecosystems, and the importance of care-based cultural spaces. The authors argue that festivals can do more than showcase art; they can help build collective visibility, psychosocial support, and longer-term solidarities among communities often excluded from mainstream public discourse.
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This published work was prepared with the support of the Heinrich Böll Stiftung. The views and analysis contained in the work are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the foundation. The authors are responsible for any liability claims against copyright breaches of graphics, photograph, images, audio, and text used.
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