Artout Escort Agency - an experimental art project created in 2006 by Anton Koslov Mayr with an international group of artists, including theater critic and director of Black Box Theater in Oslo Jon Refsdal Moe,[1] artists Per Platou, Kate Pendry, Ira Waldron, Georgy Ostretsov[1], Mike Rimbaud, Alexander Kosolapov [2], Eric Poujeau [3], Dana Wise, Elena Kovylina, Sena Yoon, Leban and Kleindienst [4], opera singer Evgeny Nikitin [5], and others.
The ideas behind the project were formulated by Anton Koslov Mayr in his essay "On Art and Domination", Jon Refsdal Moe's "Staging Cultural Prosperity"[6] and Sueli Rolni's "The Geopolitics of Pimping"[7].
Artout Project was set up as a service company offering as a product artists' time, rather than any material work.
Any interested party can hire an artist to spend time with and this in itself constitutes a creative act.
[8] New York Post art critic Dan Avery hailed Artout as "the most inventive in adapting to new economic realities".