Une ingénierie de l’art spatialisé ?. Le rôle des intermédiaires hybrides dans un nouveau monde de l’art

In the context of contemporary commissioned art, and of participatory art involved into urban changes, artists and public policy actors work together. Their new relationships appear to redefine each other practices. I think of this process as a ?co-normalization?. New actors such as hybrid intermediaries contribute to this co-normalization. They aim to change each one?s practices, to modify ways of dwelling, of thinking and of producing urban spaces and to guarantee the ?aesthetic part of dwelling? (Lazzarotti, Mercier, Paquet, 2016). It contributes to define a new artistic engineering. To understand what intermediaries actually do, I study a particular organization, ESOPA, and specifically one of the tools it creates : ?a common glossary of cultural urbanism?. More than producing new discourses on art or on urban planning, ESOPA seeks for those words to become operational. The issue is not to enhance artistic creation but to modify the context to make it conducive to spatialized commissioned art.