Contemporary Art and Cultural Practices and Processes in Scientific Discourse

The purpose of the article is to specify the definition of relevant terms and concepts in the paradigm of applied cultural studies. The article reviews the concepts of “cultural practices and processes”, “art practices”, “art processes” and issues regarding the term definition and their combination. It defines “Cultural Science”, “Cultural Studies”, and “Culturology”, and places art practices in cultural discourse and “contemporary issue” in the system of the contemporary art research. Thus, at the present stage, it is essential to consider the art and cultural research issues because of their crucial social point. The research methodology applies methods of the system-wide cultural approach, in particular, the method of synthesis, which has helped to compare and generalise research sources and literature; system method for analysis of cultural aspects of art processes. Thus, with the help of the methods mentioned above, we collected the existing theories on an appreciation of the issue’s properties and gave scientific credence to it. The scientific novelty of the article is to express a comprehensive definition of “contemporary art and cultural practices and processes”; to clarify the role of the object in interdisciplinary research using the analysis of the international and domestic scientific discussion of theoretical and practical research of art and cultural practices. Conclusions. Thus, researching Cultural Studies as an interdisciplinary field that examines the ties between political and social relations and the impact of cultural processes in general, we propose an author’s definition of “contemporary art and cultural practices and processes”. By them, we imply the civil significant and the incredibly innovative aesthetic activity of a person/people associated with the creation of art pieces, their acquisition by public spaces, preservation, permanent application or demonstration, as well as a qualitative change in the states or phenomena of art forms, systems, objects, interactions that occur during the development of global or definite society culture, and are considered up-to-date at the time of their emergence and generate an acute social resonance. Contemporary art and cultural processes are characterised by uniqueness, and their variability is determined by a combination of conditions and circumstances. For this purpose, they are dynamic forms, and art and cultural practices can be treated as artefacts of these forms