Czy street art jest sztuką społeczną? Kulturotwórczy i obywatelski sens sztuki ulicznej w perspektywie koncepcji społecznych enklaw

Abstract

In spite of its apparently growing popularity, street art still remains largely unexplored both in its aesthetic, and social dimension. The article is an attempt to capture the hybrid socio-artistic sense of this global phenomenon with the use of the concept of social enclaves. For that purpose, the authoress looks into its relation to the art world, on one hand, and civil society, on the other. She shortly presents the origins of street art, as well as its artistic repertoire and social reception. She provides an insight into the present-day processes of its institutionalization and commercialization, which, however, do not seem to weaken the street artists’ primary motivation for bringing changes in their aesthetic and social surrounding. Also some other features of street art, such as: anti-elitism, grassroots and dialogical quality, not infrequently – participation, and above all – attachment to civil values, allow her to classify this practice as social art, that is art with a public-good aim.