Art as Infrastructure: Political Engagement and Collective Empowerment in Belarusian Contemporary Art

• In Event: New Directions in Belarusian Visual Studies

Abstract

This lightning round delves into the infrastructural practices in Belarusian contemporary art, its political engagement and collective empowerment. It introduces "Infrastructure Art" as a new paradigm in the Belarusian art scene, where the focus is on the artist's participation in political processes, transcending the traditional emphasis on the art object to engage in the infrastructure of collective and social change.

Author

• Antonina Stebur, European Humanities U (Lithuania)