In this presentation I which to verify in what terms is crisis changing the face of artistic production as the aesthetic disjuncture of contemporary art signify more than matters of style and point to much deeper processes of cultural and social disenchantment. Crisis explores the capacity of artists to confront it, and to question the symbolic function of art and the role of creation during this critical moment of metaphorical entrenchment. As the Renaissance was a reaction to the stifling medieval society, and vanguards to the oppressive moralizing of the bourgeois, creative movements and projects nowadays can be a response to the contemporary cultural norms, as mediators are losing space in legitimation processes. Is there a new conviction politics, good for artistic creativity? Not just in art, but in music and film is the radicalism of the times good for a cultural rebirth or is it restraining cognitive creative processes? I will use a visual and new media documentary analysis exploring these points.

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Arts; crisis; cultural change; creativity