Concomitentes is a non-profit artistic production company that promotes the production of works of art connected to their social environment. The project invites groups from civil society —new patrons— to become the citizen promoters of these works that respond to a situation that arises in the immediate context of these groups. The project is based on the methodology developed in 1990 by the artist François Hers, who in the last 25 years has had an enormous social and cultural impact, with more than 500 projects in various European countries, including France, Belgium, Germany or Italy. Concomitentes is an art production company, but also a methodology that generates listening spaces for the subsequent artistic materialization of citizens. It is a device that opens relational and co-working spaces to mitigate inequalities or attend to collective needs.
Concomitentes.
Mission:
Concomitentes is a non-profit association founded in June 2018 to promote the creation of artworks that engage with their social context. Concomitentes invites civil society groups to become the citizen-commissioners or “Comitentes” of an artwork, and then accompanies them through the ensuing process of negotiation. The underlying methodology was developed by the artist François Hers in 1990, and has had an enormous social and cultural impact wherever it has been implemented.
Key activities:
Any group of people with an idea or a wish for their community and an interest in addressing the subject through the creation of an artwork. At the root of each Concomitancia (this is how we denominate our co-commissioned projects) there is a proposal for work that is relevant not only to the commissioning group, but also to the context that they are part of. The finished work may or not reach many people: the crucial thing is that the initial motivation must be shared.
