Art and politics: artivism as a world changing language and form of action

Abstract

In a present described as one of crisis and uncertainty, different people and groups question themselves and seek answers about how to inhabit
a world that is crumbling at the hands of extractivism, productivism, progress and consumerist dissatisfaction. Alternative horizons are proposed to this global necropolitics, where new encounters and ways of being-with-others can be established. And, in the meantime, art(ivism) is assumed as a concrete device “to postpone the end of the world,” for life and for other possible worlds. What idea of future stimulate artistic projects and performances, collective or in soliloquies? What new meanings in contemporary art practices connect people and worlds, create ecologies and environments for interventions, and formulate desires in the generation of new political communities? Like politics, art is a matter of life and death, but perhaps by opposing arguments. Can it change destiny as an aesthetic of confrontation?