Art reflecting culture

Art is a reflection of what is happening around us and particularly, and obviously, what is happening around the artist. 

Relational aesthetics, specifically relating to Rirkrit Tiravanija's food installations artworks / happenings, seems to be about gathering, about the need to create community and bringing people together. This type of art could be reflecting a need for collectives and communities in our society. 

With climate change, the current world disaster, lingering on our every movement, people have put our trust for too long into deceitful governments, companies, corporations, and they continually seem to be taking our money, creating waste, and blaming us for it. There is a great need to localize food distribution, travel, education, energy, just to name a few. The need for the proletariat to take back the power from the corporations and create strong communities is in need, and this seems to me to be currently reflected in the art world, with artists such as Hirschhorn and Tiravanija. The anti-factory production, anti-sleek, haphazard, DIY, accessible to all, relational aesthetics, aesthetic,  is the sub-concious message displaying the answer to our global problem.