Jean Couteau is an art collective manifested as a fictional character.

Our projects contain elements of performance, music, installation, and social practice.

We are inspired by the failures of neoliberalism in the form of used car lots, abandoned strip malls, obsolete signage, and the general state of North American decay.

We are attempting to trace an arc of the latent emotional impact from a consumer-based culture.

Jean Couteau’s origin story is one of working class colonial role-play: an industrial town at the literal end of the road, dread, despair, and the subsequent flight for bright lights.