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The use public participation as a strategy of activating individuals and communities to become a “ catalyst for change ” is important to activist art.

In this context, participation becomes an act of self-expression or self-representation by the entire community.

Creative expression empowers individuals by creating a space in which their voices can be heard and in which they can engage in a dialogue with one another, and with the issues in which they have a personal stake.