Arte, creatività, anarchia: gli artivismi e la risoggettivazione dello spazio collettivo

Abstract

The paper explores the anarchic potential of art as a transformative force capable of re-subjectivizing collective space through aesthetic, political, and performative practices. It examines how contemporary artivist practices reclaim art’s disruptive energy. Through feminist Latin American performances by Regina José Galindo, Cheril Linett, and the Bolivian collective Mujeres Creando, the analysis reveals how embodied actions in public space function as catalysts of resistance and social reconfiguration. These artistic interventions, situated between activism and poetics, deterritorialize institutional power structures, reclaim urban and symbolic spaces, and produce new collective subjectivities. The paper argues that artivism enacts an anarchic politics of imagination, where the artwork dissolves into the event, generating new modes of life and community.