The common by use

Living and creating have always had a close relationship. Their encounter draws a horizon of actions where art and everyday life constitute a time essential to social transformation, suggesting, in the development of alternative forms and ways of living, the possibility of emancipation concrete. If this idea has been largely undermined by its recovery systematic in the circuits of “creative” capitalism, the practices which combine artistic creation, collective housing and social commitment find new fields of expression today. This is the case of the collectives La Diversion in Marseille and Bermuda shorts in Sergy, whose members devote a part consequent of their time to build and take care of their common place of life and work. Through participant observation of these construction sites collectives, this work reports on the movements generated by the activity of everyday manufacturing on how to compose the common and make the experience of art. Preface by Laurent Thévenot