60s/70s: from participation to behavioral

Abstract

In the period 1965-68, there was a reconfiguration of the relations between art and politics, resulting from the tensioning of the propositions underway between experimental radicality and political signification.The category of participation, which had alread acquired special importance in artistic activities, began to admit the behavioral aspect, corporality, as constitutive of this new aesthetic position. The political efficay of such a change extended until the middle of the following decade, on the horizon of the various counter-cultural activities, in despite of the repression and censorship aggravated by the AI-5.