Abstract
This paper investigates how utopia is a recurring term in the contemporary art world. The spread of collaborative relations - through art collectives, artistic residences, artivism - and the valorization of these practices by institutions afterwards is a frequent process in the art world today. In this paper I will discuss the discourse produced by artists, curators and theorists, thinking if these artistic practices in the world of contemporary art can work as a representation of the way in which contemporary culture has established its relationship with time and space. The hypothesis that I sustain here is that we live in a scenario where the art world valorizes collective artistic experiences that are associated with everyday aesthetics and afterwards classify it as a new utopia. A new temporality seems to emerge in the present culture, along with this, different utopian discourses rise in art. This type of art places itself as the utopia of the everyday life, constructed for the present time in the urban space. Thus, the focus of this paper is to make a brief theoretical study on contemporaneity which points to important changes in the way in which individuals relate to everyday experience, narrative and memory, in order to understand the recent transformations in the world of contemporary art.Keywords: contemporary art, daily life, utopia, art collectives.
Highlights
This paper investigates how utopia is a recurring term in the contemporary art world
No entanto como Pedro Erber ressalta em Breaching the Frame: The rise of Contemporary Art in Brazil and Japan (2014) as origens da arte contemporânea têm sido situadas em períodos variados conforme os pensadores, indo desde a era do pós-guerra, nos anos 1960, passando pelos anos 1970, 1980 e mais recorrentemente em 1989
As continuidades entre a arte de 1960 e a atual são significativas, então traduzir as práticas recentes enquanto uma ruptura é um desafio que aqui apenas começo e arrisco delinear
Summary
This paper investigates how utopia is a recurring term in the contemporary art world. Pretendo dissertar sobre as práticas artísticas recentes de arte contemporânea que vem redesenhando o conceito de arte, e também pensar como isso se relaciona às mudanças ocorridas nas maneiras em que os indivíduos constroem a noção de espaço e o tempo em sua sociedade.
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