Read the document and answer the questions
1. What is the author’s main argument in this essay? What/who is she criticizing?
2. What is the “single-axis framework” the author is referring to?
3. What is the author’s call to action? What is she suggesting should happen?
Activist art is a term used to describe art that is grounded in the act of ‘doing’ and addresses political or social issues. The aim of activist artists is to create art that is a form of political or social currency, actively addressing cultural power structures rather than representing them or simply describing them. In describing the art, she makes, the activist artist Tania Bruguera said, ‘I don’t want art that points to a thing. I want art that is the thing’. Activist art is about empowering individuals and communities and is generally situated in the public arena with artists working closely with a community to generate the art.
