ABSTRACT
In interviews we conducted with artists, we observed that the participants pointed to “good art forms” with which to mobilize, opposed to the tension, contradiction and cost associated to the integration of a political message and intention into other art formats. Are there “politicizable” forms of art? Certain artistic “genres” seem, indeed, to be commonly correlated and imbued with “politicization”—whether political conservatism (country music) or subversion (rap music)—because of their homogenized politicallyoriented audience sometimes coupled with the expression of direct claims, but also because of the explicit association made between radical artistic form (like experimental theatre) and radical politics (in that case, situating oneself on the “extreme left” part of the political spectrum). In that regard, “generic conventions can work to include or exclude politics.”1 They are spontaneously thought of as encompassing, almost “by nature,” a political (if not activist) function.
