Karla Tepež is a doctoral student of Political Science at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana. Her research interests lie in the intersection of art and politics, with a focus on protest art as a specific political practice and its potential for thinking alternative futures. She is currently preparing her dissertation Protest art, democracy and community practices in the (Post-)Yugoslav context, where she explores the political potential of community practices and their contribution to the new ways of working, (self-)organising, and being together otherwise in the (post-)Yugoslav context. Her PhD research is funded by the University Foundation of ing. Milan Lenarčič. She also works on different research projects at the Faculty of Arts, the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Institute for Ecology.