UNIVERSITY AND ART TRANS-FORM (TO) LIFE(S)

Abstract

Where society is not focused on issues related to a critical-social education as its first prerogative. In certain of these situations, even the most essential science to humanity is being deprived of its importance. In relation to art the question is not very different because by limiting a critical social freedom, art ends up being obstructed in its first transforming intention. Indeed, in Western cultures where the purposes in relation to the University, science and art are restricted to party-politics, both have lost the interest of young society, more especially, but more broadly even for adults too, when it comes to survival in the current context of these societies: work and riches (innovations, internationalization, technologies) are more important than socio-critical-cultural trans-training to revive the coexistence with peers. From this principle, trying to rescue the basic beginnings of the creation/intention of the University, even of the scientific logic, and of art as relevant “instances” to the processes of trans-formation (to) of life(s), this paper will discuss the growing decline of the University and of art in the current political-sociocultural context in order to prove the need to continue believing in both, but, at the same time, defending the need for changes in these as we perceive/understand them today in the 21st century.