Artistic agencies: rethinking the agency of artistic works from an interdisciplinary perspective

Abstract

In this article, I aim to conduct a review of my doctoral thesis on the agency of artistic works, nearly ten years later, updating this sociological premise to add complexity. Building upon this, I will seek to elaborate on how, through new research involving the vis- ual, I perceived other powers at play in the agency of artistic works that refer not only to the discursive, but also to the imaginary, interagency dimension, and even reflections on the post-human. These new issues raised by artistic works lead me to seek an understanding of their agencies not only at the level of their circulation in institutional spaces but also to observe how they produce imagetic powers in a contest for future imaginaries. The conclusion of this reflection is to ponder on the sociology of art that I am interested in pursuing today: one that requires both intense and broad interdisciplinary debate and a methodology that considers not only the discursive/semiotic, like the image itself, but also understands the visual as an entity/being capable of social action/transformation from its own materialities.