Özet:

There has been a revival in street art in Ankara throughout the 2000s where we can witness a group of art collectives/activists turning the city into a privileged site of protest and resistance with their works ranging from stencils, cut-outs and graffititoinstallations and ready-mades. We suggest to conceive of this revival in terms of (1) protesting the use of urban publics pace as an instrument in pursuing a politics of revenge, (2) contesting the commodification of the city for the benefits of construction or advertising industries, (3) seeking for the alternative media of expression in a political milieu in which the channels of discourse are gradually being obstructed.Gezi protests in 2013 were a landmark in terms of public visibility of street art. However, the art collectives such as Kabahatler Atölyesi, Avareler and KUF Project had substantially be enactive in making the city as a conceived space of struggle and social communication by their influential works since 2000s. In this article, we focus on the art practices of these groups by considering street art such a political practice standing for the right to the city and communicative aspects of urban spaces

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