ABSTRACT

The early symbolist scholars of management and organization studies, the founders of the Studies of Cultures, Organizations and Societies (SCOS) network, launched the motto 'research is fun', a slogan that could be extended to other types of work. Here, author would like to mention yet another form of artistic intervention in organizations, perhaps the least common form: poking fun at it. He would like to suggest another possibility: that Scott Adam's intervention caused participants in the meeting to distance themselves from their work and their organization, and, is well known, distancing opens the opportunity for reflection. Adam's opinion, the power of art, and art of interventions, lies exactly in the fact that their consequences are unpredictable. An artistic intervention disrupts and enriches the everyday routine of organizing. Michel Serres says, art is a parasite on the corporate body, causing interference or interruption, and by doing so becomes a catalyst for complexity.