An Art created outside The Art Market or Working-Art (Art Projects & Eco/Com/Sys
(Outside the system of Art>Gallery>Commerce of Art>Museum)
An Art Situation created with the participation of workers, employees, women, etc. in their working places; in a harbor, factory, villages, municipality, Kibbutz, hospitals, etc. An art that instead of producing a "masterpiece" directly for a gallery, museum or collector's purpose was brought to a daily working- place, conveying, first of all, the rare, unique Art Experience to the hands of working people for them to live through their direct participation in their working place. Thus one event (the work of art), which, while exercising it physically went through another dimension, that of the unknown, the surprise; a confrontation which became the fuse that transformed the banal daily experience of those working people, wherever such events took place (more than 40, since early 70's) into the extraordinary work of art, which became the so-called Art Projects, each one conveying its specific message, no more that of the unique masterpiece , but that of the message, as experienced by ordinary people, its meaning brought to the spectator in a "dry, visual & ordinary language, not for seduction purposes but for the comprehension of the spectator as a learning experience…For those reasons as mentioned above, such works of art made outside the art establishments has never been acknowledged, nor shown under their umbrella, except for exceptional progressive spaces, which accepted art for social change & such art critics, such as Lucy R. Lippard, who, without her mediation, such projects would never have come to public awareness, altogether.* M. Sharon, 09, Feb.
*L.R. Lippard wrote in the 70's & 80's about those Art Projects extensively. With many thanks…M.S.