Social art

In this section you will immerse yourself completely in the world of socially engaged arts—one of the biggest trends in contemporary art. And you will be amazed how art today extends to the point where it wants to interfere in human life, rights, freedoms and prosperity, to create better living conditions for young and old, to give wide spaces for imagination, longing and dreams, to make wishes come true. Michel Foucault stated that over time, art has become something related only to objects and not to people or life; something specialized or performed by expert artists. So now it’s our turn to bring art back to real life, to the people and their diversity and their universal languages of mutual understanding it originally belongs to.
11.09.2021

The Guerrilla Girls

NY anonymous feminist and anti-racist artistic collective The Guerrilla Girls is an anonymous feminist and anti-racist artistic collective. It was created in New York in the year 1985 and they are denominated this way due to their communication tactics. Their …

29.07.2021

7 Billion Others (7 milliards d’autres, 2003– )

The most impressive kaleidoscope of humanity’s personal ideas about love, tolerance, happiness, non-violence, peace and environment ever created Author: Sylvia Borissova 6 Billion Others (6 milliards d’autres, 2003) is an ambitious and unusual art project through which film director, journalist, …

29.07.2021

Armand Amar and the Human music

Armand Amar’s magnificent film music to the masterpiece Human (2015) by Jan Arthus-Bertrand Author: Sylvia Borissova When film director, journalist, photographer and environmentalist Jan Arthus-Bertrand was at the beginning of his spectacular project, the film masterpiece Human (2015), he imagined …

29.07.2021

All Human Beings

What do all human beings, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Max Richter have in common? Author: Sylvia Borissova All Human Beings is the new track by contemporary classical composer Max Richter from his latest album Voices, which was …

29.07.2021

Life as an art form: Why not?

Living as Form—the platform for socially engaged arts and projects Author: Sylvia Borissova What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to life. …

29.07.2021

Cross-cultural wall of beads

How does the bas-relief sculpture by multi-genre artist Nick Cave connect two cultures? Author: Sylvia Borissova On the wall in the anteroom of the US Embassy in Dakar, there is a miraculously mounted monumental bas-relief sculpture—a conglomeration of thousands of …

28.07.2021

Nick Cave of Fulton and The Soundsuits

“The moment you wear the suit, you are shielded. Your identity is no longer relevant.” Author: Sylvia Borissova Be in no hurry to think that The Soundsuits is the new band-adventure of legendary rock musician Nick Cave after Nick Cave & …