Redes artísticas y culturales alternativas en la ciudad global

Abstract

At the time when the economy of accumulation suffers a crisis; Culture and art, are focused as stimulus of economies in decline: the immaterial operates as a promoter of change, of the urban transformation and as «expeditionary force for inner- city gentrifiers» (Ley 1996, 191). In the same way, it becomes an essential element of the leisure and entertainment industry, fruit of its own spectacularization. It is in this sense that the research project «Bilbao dé-tour-nement: Catalogue of artistic and cultural spaces and practices» comes to light. The aim of the project is to cast light on the implicit artistic and cultural activity and spaces in the aforementioned city, as well as on the primarily known circuit. In the same vein, the project highlights the network of cultural agents who work in this area and whose duty arises in a cohesive manner and is compromised by the everyday life of the urban space in which they find themselves, and who often carry out their professional activity in precarious conditions.