ART today
We witnessed, in the last decade, a worldwide rapidly growing change in
the arts towards collaboration and artists working reality. Therefore
art has become a powerful AGENT not only in aesthetics, but also in ethical,
social, environmental, economic, political, and other contexts. As a result,
the interest within contemporary art studies in the art community and art in
social transformation context is growing rapidly. This interest includes a new
understanding of art and artistic practice, which is evident and much needed.
The definition of the artists’ task and role has been expanded from physical
and conceptual production within the art field to the realm of social,
political, environmental work, and related context relations. Collectives and
artists working reality in and with
local communities, conflict and transformation contexts, are withering away
many conceptual barriers and cultural canons of making art.
