Art historians have the tendency to classify artistic practices throughout the time. In general, it's easier to classify history in hindsight. But contemporary art theorists tend to classify the art practices of their time. After the end of modern art and the project of modernism, art history put its focus on pop and conceptual art. Peter Weibel spoke of context art. Nicolas Bourriaurd spoke of "Relational Art". Today, we see an emergence of crowd art. It's a new field reacting to social media technology, globalism, and the emergence of us people as a phenomenon of "crowd".
Questions that come out of this: Are we a society? How are we connected? What organizes us? What is the relationship among us. Is there a social contract? And if we don't have one, are we still a society or just a group of people, a crowd. Who organizes us? And is our contribution to democracy just to vote once every few years? How can we be empowered citizen?
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