In any city, town, or suburb, there exists in ample and unfortunate evidence the propagation of a concrete aesthetic that informs the senses of the populace with alarming consistency through out the course of everyday life. Managed by developers, advertisers, and urban planners, this aesthetic reflects artistic assumptions based in the values of a barren functionalism that would deny expressions of life and creativity. Not only is its enforcement through capital and image management authoritarian in both implementation and denial of democratic expression, but it is furthermore prefaced by sentiments rooted in the manipulative tendencies of economic thought, where such aesthetic functionalism serves to bolster the values and activities of material consumption within the capitalist system.
It is our stated intent to work with artists, musicians, and writers in order to overcome enforced banality by dismantling art as commodity in favor of offering it as lived experience within the structure of a gift economy. Spread throughout the environment, examples of our aesthetic include the distribution of copper birds as gifts for strangers, paintings hung in bank parking lots, brief poems written on stickers, sidewalk concerts, and a free newspaper publication filled with the glorious subjectivity of personal stories.
We sincerely hope that our efforts will be met with mutual participation from interested creative types who wish to expose the finer aspects of humanity through dispersal of their work outside of established roles and venues for the purpose of infusing the environment with a vital aura based in the spirit of creation.
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