by Vlad Petri  The protests that took place in Bucharest in January 2012 led to discussions on the role of street protests and problematized the relation between the authorities, the protesters and those documenting the events. The article Visual Representations of the 2012 Protests. Whose Side Are You On? tackles several issues: the partitioning of the physical space of protest, the existence of a “supervised protest”, authorized by law enforcement institutions, the representations of protesters in the media, the construction of a fictitious context of the protest different from the one on the scene, the meaning of the perspective one …

Art Up Against Political Systems The theme of the first issue of Gazeta de Artă Politică is Art Up Against Political Systems, a recurring topic in debates about the positioning of artists in relation to various forms of power, as well as in those about the ubiquitous “resistance through culture”, about the need for politically involved art or about the radical nature of artistic endeavors which discuss the political. We settled on this theme because we believed it was essential to problematize the artists’ role in society and the relevance of politically-charged interventions in a context where concepts such as …