A significant portion of the contemporary art has articulated its production in collaboration with communities, remaining radically dependent, literally rooted in the social, political and cultural contexts in which is inserted, rejecting the concept of autonomy in favor of a process of worldliness of art. This way, the art seems to be in search of a more robust social resonance through the rejection of a process of its privatization and the rescue of its public dimension, neglected by modernism. As a result, this most ambitious spectrum of the contemporary art seems to point to the need for redefinition of the mechanisms of articulation and functioning of the whole art system – production, circulation, consumption, institutions and art criticism –, requiring a thorough check of our certainties in institutional terrain and suggesting the need for reinvention of the system itself.
contemporary art; worldliness; reinvention; art system
