Subsistence Thinking and Action

The boundary walls between the areas and the thoughts disintegrate more and more. Without all that hard-won autonomy, the field of art is seen as a collage (no longer that collage which questioned modernist spatiality), but a cognitive collage, a fragmentation constituted by the heterogeneity of knowledge that marks today’s thinking. Along with the contamination of the spheres of knowledge, it’s strategies and mechanisms have also been altered. The flow of constant readjustment has become a subsistence (or survival) movement, whether in the quest for conceptual actualization or in the existential and pragmatic questioning. Maintaining any effort or initiative of artistic practice requires adaptation, and thus we seek for states of existence that are minimally continuous. But how to survive? How to breathe and stay alive in times of absolute erasure of incentives and devaluations? How to understand and intervene in the systemic structures and negotiations already given and find room for action? If the public merged with the private, if the marginality has become institutionalized and if the public policy leaves, leaving us with the forces of the market, where does the interstices reside? In the next edition, the magazine Arte ConTexto wants to bring to the surface the reconfigurations of the spheres of the artistic field and to promote the debate about productions, propositions and reflections that are generating new ways to exist and to question this system.

The 14th edition of the magazine publication is scheduled for July 2018. Submission of portfolios and texts must be accomplished until April 29 (Sunday), 2018. For more details, access the publication standards.