New artistic practices and social housing organizations : between public utility, customers service and collective creativity places

Abstract

Through the analysis of two artistic
projects supported by a social housing
organization in Lyon, France, this paper
tries to show the fluctuations between
public utility and customers’ service. In
the organizations’ public relations and
communications, these artistic practices
appeals a specific argumentation based
on the idea of service. Relying on definition elements and on field’s observations,
the paper shows how the multiplicity of
communications express the complexity
of the participants’ system and allows the
appearance of collective places of social,
urban and artistic creativity, otherness
and variety