Dos processos de erosão e de resistência da alternativa artística na contemporaneidade portuguesa recente

Abstract

From the study of multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary urban artistic manifestations that are present in the Portuguese contemporaneity, we discuss the relevance of the epithet of artistic alternative; specially in a social model that is characterized by hybridism and i tis affected by transversal processes of commodification, massification and institutionalization. Largely eroded by these processes, the term alternative within the artistic field implies an updated revisiting effort. The reflection around the actuality of the artistic alternative, as an enhancer of an artistic subfield, results from an investigation on a set of artistic manifestations (multiple case study) – festivals and urban artistic spaces – distributed throughout the national territory, The emergence of these manifestations is based on do-it-yourself (DIY) logics, artistic experimentation and eclecticism, and disruptive dynamics in relation to structures and institutionalized normative processes (of the market or institutions) that develop new forms of production and circulation of artistic works.