Skydive, one of Houston’s newest scrappy artist-run spaces, is showing Sisyphus Office through June 27. It is organized by guest curator Jonn Herschend and involves 10 artists, most San Francisco-based, presenting work at seven locations, some of which might rank among the last places you’d expect to see an art show. That’s a big part of the show’s concept.

In addition to Skydive — where viewers are encouraged to stop first to pick up a manila folder stocked with a “memorandum” providing an overview of the show, a map and details about the artists and locations — venues include NE’A House of Beauty, Copy.com, Aurora Picture Show, KPTF 90.1 Pacifica Radio, Caroline Collective and the Decorative Center Houston.

According to Herschend’s memo, participating artists Joe McKay, Ryan Thayer, David Keating, Alice Shaw, Brion Nuda Rosch, Susan O’Malley, Alex Clausen, David Fullarton, Lindsey White and Elysa Lozano are required to “work within the businesses in a collaborative way. Both the artist and the members of the office are working to create the piece. The only exception to this will be the works placed within the Decorative Center, where the artists will be placing their works in reaction to the space itself.”

One of the concepts the show celebrates is romantic capitalism — the opposite of market research-driven corporate capitalism, Herschend writes — in which an “individual has the dream and invests his or her life into making the vision true” -— long odds be damned.

“Houston, the city itself, is a metaphor for this,” Herschend writes. “The city is free form and has no zoning law. Stores exist in family living rooms, offices are found in trailer parks, galleries in office buildings.”

Case in point: Skydive itself, which occupies office space on the ninth floor of a 10-story building.

1-5 p.m. Saturdays through June 27 at Skydive, 3400 Montrose, Suite 907; hours at other sites vary by location.