DRUŠTVENO-POLITIČKA ULOGA ARTIVIZ(A)MA I MOGUĆNOST NOVE ESTETIZACIJE
THE SOCIO-POLITICAL ROLE OF ARTIVISM(S) AND THE POSSIBILITY OF A NEW AESTHETICIZATION

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on the analysis of the field of artivism / artistic activism through its socio-political role, historical context and practice. It questions whether artivism, which has been associated with critical art in recent decades, can be considered a new artistic paradigm. In support of this, the texts of Boris Groys and Gregory Sholette are analyzed, where different conceptions of aestheticization are presented: Groys’ concept of total aestheticization and the concept of prefigurative politics (its aesthetic dimension) on which Sholette relies. Sublimating both concepts, which indicate that the phenomenon of artistic activism is indeed growing and visible, I try to present artivism as a potential new paradigm in the field of art. In that sense, two outdated artistic paradigms are analyzed (which represented the identification / separation of the subject in relation to the body, according to Badiou) and I propose a new relation (revolution) of the subject and the body, that is the event.

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