ABSTRACT

Despite the steady growth of authoritarianism, image activism is persistent and vibrant in Turkey. This paper examines how activists/artists used the production and circulation of political images to combat the institutional exclusion of oppositional voices following the Gezi protests (2013) and the attempted coup (2016). Using visual rhetorical analysis of images and in-depth interviews with courtroom painters, the paper focuses on ‘political’ drawings produced in enclaves of courtrooms and the strategies of image activists in visually narrating the political prisoners and/or detainees for wider networks, forming intersectional communities and creating spatial and digital visibility. In the context of the image activism in the post-Occupy Turkey, the passage from the digital to post-digital is based on, first, the top-down restrictive regulations in public and semi-public spaces and increasing police presence in places where activists previously met, and second, rising surveillance of the digital platforms, including the troll armies of the AKP government.

摘要

尽管专制主义在稳步增长，但图像行动主义在土耳其仍然持续存在并且充满活力。本文探讨了激进主义者/艺术家如何利用政治形象的产生和传播来对抗在盖兹抗议（2013）和未遂政变（2016）之后在体制上排斥反对声音的行为。通过对图像的视觉修辞分析和对法庭画家的深入采访，本文重点讨论了在法庭飞地中制作的“政治”绘画，以及图像活动家在视觉上叙述政治犯和/或被拘留者更广泛网络的策略，形成交叉社区并创建空间和数字可视性。在后占领土耳其的形象行动主义背景下，从数字到后数字的过渡首先是基于