This fiction is developed by a group of visual artists, designers, engineers, etc. The idea is to create a global company which produces art in the form of irregular polyhedrons. The artwork produced in the framework of this project, documents the alleged production or the imaginary functioning of a company, while it is being invented. Each piece of art contributes to the development of this fiction.
Each exhibit is an opportunity to engage in new issues. In addressing a wide variety of domains in which we are involved, we relate and explore the multiple aspects of the project. All media are valid, it is the variety of the contributors that enhances the scope of the project.
NeoConsortium is an artistic project which networks as a conceptual environment in which artistic experimentation takes place. This fiction questions one of the major aspects of our economic and therefore political reality: the commodification and financialization of the world.
By deferring the processes used by global companies to the field of artistic creation, we wish to:
- Rejuvenate the awe before their pervasiveness, their discourse and modus vivendi.
- Using the prism of the absurd and poetry, question their seductiveness and our ambivalence when confronted with their communication and productions.
- Create a tool making it possible to develop collective projects open to all disciplines in a collaborative approach.
The creation of this fictional entity owes a great deal to Gérard Gasiorowsky's Worosys Kiga Academy of as well as to the work of Panamarenko. It is equally indebted to the actions of the Yes Men and is modestly inspired by the absurdity of Monty Python.
We recognize ourselves in the description of « critical corporations » or artist-corporations as described by the Art & Flux research group.
We would like to express our gratitude to Monsanto, Bayer, Nestlé, IBM, Apple, Volkswagen, Bouygues, Total, Coca-Cola, MacDonald's, Disney, Nike etc., which are a daily source of wonder and an endless source of inspiration.