Art Relish

An experimental Public Art process offered as a “Free Art Service” –

Post-Bail Out Aesthetics
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A Conceptual project by Stuart Keeler

Post Bail-Out Aesthetics is a free public art service that is interested in the unseen positive forces that generate goodwill, tranquillity, and abundance. Post Bail-Out Aesthetics, does not aim to fix the problem of the current economy, rather Post Bail-Out Aesthetics aims to generate possible new ideas, innovative ways of seeing, doing, and understanding the current economy. This collaborative free-service aims to envision and offer a sculptural approach of invisible-yet-known site forces as a conceptual public art experience.
Contact: Stuart Keeler for a free appointment at Post.Bailout.Aesthetics@Gmail.com

A conceptual project by artist Stuart Keeler, the team is composed of 2 professional experts; each with a specific job to perform, a Feng Shui Practioner, and a Psychic Color Analyst. A free one hour service.
“This public art service aims to elucidate the energy of understanding that resides hidden in the positive forces of our environments, which; similar to the stock market, govern our daily lives.  The capital for this project will come from the energy of the environment and the participants involved in the process.  This capital trust will create the distribution of goodwill in order to form new bonds that will mature into future communities. “
Post Bail-Out Aesthetics is about the social process of building a new community that will inspire and challenge those involved and those observing to think about our own individual possibilities during this unique and defining moment in our culture.
Each site will be documented with a “before and after” photograph, as well as a conceptual statement about the site. Artist, Stuart Keeler will interpret each team’s response to the site with a non-invasive sculptural translation of the advice offered by the team.  Furthermore, the artist’s interpretation will be informed by an awareness of art history as it relates to these contemporary methods of site specificity. Post Bail-Out Aesthetics will encourage participants to invest in the futures of the artistic energy in their environment, which hopefully will provide returns in the form of a positive environment regardless of the surrounding economic pressure.  Post Bail-Out Aesthetics hopes to redefine our individual commodities as intangible assets that gain greater significance within this conceptual project.
Post Bail-Out Aesthetics aims to shift the role of the artist working on site through inventive new collaborations and processes.  Furthermore, this act is a reactivation of how new definitions of “public art” can activate the spaces of our daily lives.
Contact: Stuart Keeler for a free appointment at Post.Bailout.Aesthetics@Gmail.com
The Post Bailout-Aesthetics Team
Stuart Keeler is an artist working in public space for over 15 years. Projects range from curatorial based vision to commissioned works nationally. “What is the role of the artist in the built world?…Is it “public art” or is it Art in public space?” Post Bailout Aesthetics is one of 5 projects that Keeler will initiate as The Self Appointed Artist-in-Residence of The City of Atlanta.
Jodie Gagliardi-Stout, Feng Shui Practioner
Feng Shui is the ancient art and science of studying the relationship between people and their environments, with the goal of harmonizing that relationship. “When you bring people and their environments into balance with one another, all life thrives”.   Feng Shui has been practiced in China for over three thousand years, and is a powerful and relevant methodology for our western culture today.
Pink M.C. Hill, Psychic Color Field Analyst
“Our dreams materialize when we understand the space in which we live – color can assist in creating this energy field” Psychic color analysis conducts an educated view and study experience of each site with conscious choices to bring color dynamics as new tools to energize our inhabited spaces.
Questions?
How do I become involved?
Please email Stuart Keeler for an appointment. This will be followed up with a phone interview, and an appointment to visit the site.
Why is this a free service?  How is it “public art”?
Public Art comes in many forms, shapes and concepts.  This is a contemporary socially based public artwork, which aims to activate conversation around the economy as a service. To generate goodwill. The service is free, as change is constant, and conversation within an art context can assist with making new tangible connections to the current cultural climate.
What is meant by “self appointed artist-in-residence”?
Stuart Keeler will augment several projects over the Spring and Summer, which will challenge ideas of “public art”, with new ideas of reaching audiences who might not be familiar with art or artists. The work is a conceptual art project – in progress, and aims to gather support for his art services to the citizens of Atlanta.

When will the free session take place?
If you are in an office space, we are flexible and can arrive during lunch, after hours, or weekends  so that we do not disturb the work environment.
What if I do not want to follow the prescribed aesthetic plan?
That is fine, and that is up to you!  To fully gather the Chi of the site, it is best that you wait for 5 days for optimal Post Bail-Out Aesthetics to arrive.
What is meant by; “Before and After Photograph’?
The artist aims to document the process, with how the site looked upon arrival, then how the site changed upon the advice of the Resident Aesthetic Team, and how the advice was translated into a sculptural assemblage.
How long does a consultation take?
The initial Feng Shui consultation takes one hour (60 minutes) from beginning to end.  The follow up results, and sculptural assemblage by Stuart Keeler can be scheduled, after a review of the results from the analysis.
Who will contact me?
After Stuart Keeler has confirmed your appointment and time, The Feng Shui practioner Jodi Gagliardi-Stout will contact you via telephone the day before your appointment for a 15-minute conversation.  It is your option to have both services, however this can be advised during your phone consultation, or after the Feng-Shui service, to achieve the full results of the art experience.
The Day of the appointment, what do I do?
The team is professional and wants to provide a great service. It is our goal to be punctual, professional as well as clear communicators. There is nothing expected of you, you can observe the session, or whatever you are comfortable with.   Nothing will be executed by Stuart Keeler until the client has reviewed a conceptual outline.

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