Practices of visual artists: A field fruitful to reflect on the contours

Based on research on the politically committed art of Quebecois visual artists, we analyze what this particular form of socio-political contestation teaches us about the changes which political involvement has seen since the end of the 1970s. We explore the social representation of involvement said to be that of the past, as well as the characteristics of present day artistic-political practices. The choice made to study involvement from a perspective outside of the framework of usual political action, in an open space (open in the sense of lacking correspondence with the spaces, institutions & ways of acting usually recognized as political), opens on the diversity of current forms of involvement & on the changes & transgressions which have occurred with regard to the more classical social representation of involvement. Adapted from the source document.