Culture and art on the edge of crisis

The importance of the art practices and production in political action and activism (not just politics in art practice, media, or messages) has been central to movements such as Ocuppy Wallstreet, the Arab Colored Revolutions, or those in Southeastern Europe, the conservation movements, and even in one of the most common organized forms – the occupations (of theaters, dormitories, faculties and other public institutions). There, apart from the establishment of a new (often temporary) system of relationships, mechanisms of care, rules of conduct; there was also a discourse of applying artistic practice in joint action and organizing cultural and artistic policy (production, activity and use) as part of the assumed needs and potentials of the members of the new (temporary) micro society.