Artout Project, a.k.a. Artout Escort Agency - an experimental art project created in 2006 by

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with an international group of artists, including theater critic and director of

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Jon Refsdal Moe, artist
Per Platou
Kate Pendry, Ira Waldron, Georgy Ostretsov

Mike Rimbaud, Alexander Kosolapo

Eric Poujea

Dana Wise, Elena Kovylina, Sena Yoon, Leban and Kleindiens

opera singer Evgeny Nikiti

and others. The project is a part of the Institutional Critique mouvement, but also relies on

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practices. The ideas behind the project were formulated by

in his essay "On Art and Domination", Jon Refsdal Moe's "Staging Cultural Prosperit

and Sueli Rolni's "The Geopolitics of Pimpin

Artout Project was set up as a service company offering as a product artists' time, rather than any material work. Any interested party can hire an artist to spend time with and this in itself constitutes a creative act. The project was conceived as a meditation on the relationship between art collectors and art producers, exploring new territories of

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and institutional control.Elite Escort Agency
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2009 Bridge Art Fair

In 2009 the Artout Project was invited as a special feature of Bridge Art Fair in New Yor

New York Post art critic Dan Avery hailed Artout as "the most inventive in adapting to new economic realities

References

{{Reflist Artout official websit

br /> Review of the project by the Moscow's magazine Afisha''

br /> Snob magazine on Artou

br /> International artist groups and collectives