Practices of visual arts artists: fertile ground for reflection on the current contours of commitment

Based oil research on the politically committed art of Quebecois Visual artists, we analyze what this particular form of socio-political contestation teaches us about the changes which political involvement has seen since the end of the 1970s. We explore the social representation of involvement said to be that of the past, as well as the characteristics of present day artistic-political practices. The choice made to study involvement from a perspective outside of the framework of usual political action, in all open space (open in the sense of lacking correspondence with the spaces, institutions and ways of acting usually recognized as political), opens oil the diversity of current forms of involvement and on the changes and transgressions which have occurred with regard to the more classical social representation of involvement.