Artivism, which I have elsewhere described as the dominant art movement of the 21st century (so far), can be defined as political action presented through (or as) art. Emerging in response to the retraction of US federal arts funding by the Reagan administration in the 1980s, it uses concepts from Gramsci and the Frankfurt School to establish its intellectual credibility, the example of Situationism as a model of application, and the genre and boundary-negationism of Postmodernism to legitimize activism as art.
