LES NOUVELLES PRATIQUES ARTISTIQUES ET LES ORGANISMES DE LOGEMENT SOCIAL : ENTRE SERVICE PUBLIC, SERVICE MARCHAND ET LIEUX DE CRÉATIVITÉ COLLECTIVE

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.