Contagion as survival: The viral art of the Gran Fury collective

Abstract

Active between 1987 and 1996, Gran Fury artist collective remains a contents spreader through the public domain, which both sequences and defines its practice. Its existence demonstrates an art collectives formation dynamic, ordered by identity's agency phenomenon, designative and separatist, which point to individuals out certain attributive characteristics. Positioned face to face under this social exception, such individuals recognize each other and group themselves due to that granted characteristics. The art created in these exclusion places tends to become public by its own resources, and act on a resistence sense, maneuvering artworks languages, materials, supports and placement formats that both operate and sediment the artist publication's concept.