Art Initiatives in the Context of Historical Development of Conceptual Infrastructures

Gustave Courbet openned the Rejection Hall, (Salon des Refusés) as a reaction to the Paris Salon exhibition in 1855. This study will examine such counter formations on the art historical basis in relation to its political, philosophical, and pedagogical context. Therefore, the focus of the study will be limited to the inquiry of how such reactionary initiatives institionalized art for the purpose of political organization and resistance. The theoretical framework within these limits was formed through the literature review about the impact of such initiatives within their socio-political contexts on the artistic terminology. Moreover, the historical transformation of such concepts will be examined in terms of how those initatives impacted the art forms, and how such mentalities of the era changed the production processes. Because the aim of the study is to reveal the intellectual impacts of the concept of initiative, the impact of shared concepts will be illustrated comparatively instead of examining it from the chronological point of view of art history. The first chapter will focus on the meaning of initiative and collectivization on the context of interdisciplinary structure of art, and will explore the what periodical transformations such as participation, relationality, and action leading the expansion of conceptual grounds and so impacting the artistic practices. In the second chapter, how such instituonalized conceptual art forms neutralized the counter art, and how the action of the initiatives, presented as public networks and spatial practices, were accepted as activist models. In the final chapter, the role of activism on the interaction of art and politics will be explored, and the necessity of such initiatives towards both social and epistemological changes will be discussed. In this section, the subject will be discussed on the context of philosophical thoughts that feed the intellectual structures of initiatives in contemporary art