Art enters the office. It aims to create a network of professionals who are not artists, alongside artists. The artists, seven initially, will work on projects of other professionals, introducing creative processes and methodologies that innovate their disciplines reciprocally. This experience eliminates the artist-audience framework.
Standard public art is simply something that takes place in open city locations and during leisure time, but the city is not just space or a place for entertainment. Public art offers interaction but not involvement. The goal is to create art that is public in content, as something political (polis = city). It is a definition of public art as civic art. Civic art is of public interest; its location does not need to be open and public, as its sphere is public. The principle of civic art is to bring art into the real time and space of the city: an office instead of a gallery, and working hours instead of the after-work stroll.

Among these professionals will be: Architects, Lawyers, Psychologists, Journalists. This could simply be a “barter” of professionals, but although there is reciprocity, unlike barter there is asynchrony. For example, an artist working with a lawyer produces visual documentation that illustrates what the lawyer wants to convey. It is not a barter of professionals, but an asynchronous involvement in the projects of others.

A professional-artist will recognize that collaboration on each other’s specific work, rather than a unison joint involvement in a single piece (“I help you with your work” and “you help me with mine” instead of “we both work together on the work of both”), maintains the independent direction of each project, while allowing the other to relax. Not knowing the reality of a discipline can render a job useless, but it can also make it more creative. Not knowing the full reality can be an advantage. Joint projects could be carried out in an inter-disciplinary manner. This would work for people with a lot of time and knowledge, as in the case of retirees.

The rules of the game: EQUIVALENTS. The professionals must have a similar level; HIERARCHICAL. Each person is in charge of their own work and the other is a collaborator, and vice versa; AGES. Preference for mature individuals between 40 and 90 years old; COMMITMENT. Each party commits to working on the other’s project either simultaneously with their own or subsequently. If you are interested in becoming part of this network, write to us.