Prosocial.Studio

Practice Statement
Prosocial studio explores ways of making art/research as a byproduct of embedded public service.
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We work: as arborists, fellows, administrators, bus operators, designers, technologists
Within existing environments: orchards, city halls, transit agencies
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In service: understanding, articulating, facilitating, intervening
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Of publics: people, spaces, resources, values
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Through selection, immersion, documentation and exaptation we deploy labor as a perceptual instrument to understand, compress and reposition ineffable characteristics of the publics and service we're embedded within.
These compressions are deconstructed, analyzed and reconstituted into art, and complicated by research.

Performance, Speculation
Department Of Public Empowerment (D.O.P.E.)
A public department asks, "What is the most public art possible?" among other things.



