Member - Patrick Mathieu |
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I was trained at the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris in marketing, and first worked as a strategic planner for 10 years in advertising agencies, Saatchi & Saatchi and CLM&BBDO in Paris. I interrupted my career in 1989 to create a contemporary art gallery, that worked both as an exhibition space (with artists such as Chen Zhen) and a services company doing art rental, specific art productions, and art consulting for corporate collections. This experience generated a very close contact with the artists, and awoke my specific interest for artistic creative processes. Back into marketing and strategic consultancy in 1993, I have developed my practice into a company, Patrick Mathieu Conseil, since 2000, working now with 7 people. Within my consulting work, I have been developing - with my wife Hélène - collaborations with artists in order to modify the working processes of our clients. This has reached a major outcome with the development of a new kind of seminar with the artist group Local Access. It is called « Simulation » and it is based on an artistic vision of how different types of people work and produce collective intelligence together. We use it to initiate problem-solving missions, and also to generate new productive visions about complex issues. You can see extracts of it on the web at www.acces-local.com . You can also download a short paper about a case story of « Simulation » with a French company (answering questions from our Aacorn friends of Learning Lab Denmark) here (.pdf) We have been participating with Philippe Mairesse from Local Access in the « Art of Management » conference in Paris in Sept. 04, and in the « Organizational Art Summit » by Learning Lab Denmark in November 04. We also presented « Simulation » in art exhibitions such as « Art & Economy » in Hamburg (with the Siemens Artsprogram) or « Ma petite entreprise » in Meymac in France. We also develop collaborations in France with several artists and designers such as Laetitia Bourget, Laurent Malone and the Stalker group, Didier Courbot, or Frédéric Dumont. I am glad of being a part of the Aacorn network thanks to David Barry and I hope to participate in fruitful discussion about the arts & management reflexions. |
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