Art, Imaginary and Society

The year 2025 will mark the 50th anniversary of Cornelius Castoriadis' The Imaginary Institution of Society, a work of great projection that has inspired new perspectives for the study of the relationship between art, culture, and society in various fields: art institutions, cultural productions, militant artistic practices, art and socio-historical processes, etc. All of them address the symbolic dimension of social-historical processes as an indispensable component to understanding the creative power of the collective imaginary and its changes over time. This session seeks to bring together presentations that address the relationship between art and imaginary from different fields, either considering the internal or external dimension of the works, taking into account both the discourses that give them legitimacy and those that generate new imaginaries for a society. In synthesis, in the different fields of the Sociology of Art, this session proposes to reflect on the actuality of taking the imaginary as a constitutive dimension of social life.