Social practices
From CT4CT: Creative Tools for Critical Times
Social Practices describes a series of artistic approaches and processes that deliberately extend into the public and social spheres. By fusing contemporary artistic practices with critical theory and social action, these methods utilize creative interventions to catalyse social (ex)change and debate and inspire critical reflection and action.
According to the California College of the Arts:
Social practices incorporates art strategies as diverse as urban interventions, utopian proposals, guerrilla architecture, "new genre" public art, social sculpture, project-based community practice, interactive media, service dispersals, and street performance. The field focuses on topics such as aesthetics, ethics, collaboration, persona, media strategies, and social activism, issues that are central to artworks and projects that cross into public and social spheres. These varied forms of public strategy are linked critically through theories of relational art, social formation, pluralism, and democracy. Artists working within these modalities either choose to co-create their work with a specific audience or propose critical interventions within existing social systems that inspire debate or catalyze social exchange.
