Art, social justice and culture

Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest

Hungarian University of Fine Arts Doctoral School

KissPál Szabolcs

fine arts

While many progressive contemporary art practices recognize the growing responsibility of the arts related to the present and future of our global society, their impact is constrained by the limitations of their institutional frameworks (galleries, biennials, museums), the general self-referentiality of the ‘art world’. This is the domain where these practices depart from and where they return, the realm where their references rest and where the conclusions are made visible. The growing number of socially engaged, activist and collaborative art projects are capable of addressing relevant social issues with significant cultural effects, but the upmost objective of their aspiration - the impact and ‘efficiency’ of the social intervention - always remains questionable. In spite of the fact that the production of these projects is often completed within the public and social space, their legitimacy and real audience both reside within the logic of the art world itself unless they turn into pure social activism.

The research focuses on the cross-fields of contemporary visual art practices, design, and social media in the context of a complex relationship between art, media and design placing a special emphasis on the potential of social change.

(keywords) cross-disciplinary methodology, new media, social media, design for social innovation, intervention vs. symbolic act, political formations as art forms, architecture, urban utopias, futurology, transformative media, conceptual design, democracy-design, democracity, appropriation of political strategies, consumerism

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Hungarian University of Fine Arts Doctoral School eszty House, 1063 Budapest Kmety Gy. u. 27.

2020-04-15

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