The social and political uses of contemporary art between practices of participation and resistance

Abstract

In this article, I will try to propose a theoretical framework for a multiplicity of ongoing ethnographies that focus on the relationship between participatory artistic practices, forms of cultural and political activism, the international art system, and social realities. I will refer transversally to the most diverse authors, as it is important to, not only strengthen one's own interpretative tools also by looking outside of the filed of anthropology, but also to begin to trace the coordinates of fieldwork