This text is a Persian translation of the article “On Art Activism” by Boris Groys, published in issue 56 of the journal e-flux in 2014. Groys examines art activism through the concept of aesthetization, critically rethinking the relationship between art, politics, and design. Situating his analysis within philosophical and historical debates that extend beyond modernity and narrati...

The contemporary artist is no longer an artist who expresses the standard narrative or previous narrative and is always ahead of the society. In this essay, Hossein Ganji explains how the artists, with their protest expressions, drew the screams in the throat and the unfulfilled demands of not mentioned, and in the meantime, they also gave many damages and compensations. Either when...

At this historical moment, art, like all fields, has faced fundamental questions: What is the mission of the artist in relation to political and social struggles? Or, basically, what is the relationship between art and struggle? When we specifically think about visual arts and consider the specific possibilities and limitations of this field of arts, questions like this take on a mo...