Artist collective
An artist collective is an initiative that is the result of a group of artists working together, usually under their own management, towards shared aims. The aims of an artist collective can include almost anything that is relevant to the needs of the artist, this can range from purchasing bulk materials, sharing equipment, space or materials, through to following shared ideologies, aesthetic and political views or even living and working together as an extended family. Sharing of ownership, risk, benefits, and status is implied, as opposed to other, more common business structures with an explicit hierarchy of ownership such as an association or a company.
Contents
1 Overview
2 Selected art collectives
3 See also
4 References
5 External links
Overview
Artist collectives have occurred throughout history, often gathered around central resources, for instance the ancient sculpture workshops at the marble quarries on Milos in Greece and Carrara in Italy. Collectives featured during both the Russian revolution when they were set up by the state in all major communities, and the French Revolution when the Louvre in Paris was occupied as an artist collective.
More traditional artist collectives tend to be smallish groups of two to eight artists who produce work, either collaboratively or as individuals toward exhibiting together in gallery shows or public spaces. Often an artists collective will maintain a collective space, for exhibiting or as workshop or studio facilities. Some newer, more experimental kinds of groups include intentional networks, anonymous, connector, hidden or nested groups, and groups with unconventional time-scales. Artist collectives may be formed: For economic reasons, to give members volume purchasing power and allow costs of publicity and shows to be shared. For political reasons, to increase local lobbying power for arts infrastructure, to gather behind a cause or belief. For professional reasons, to develop a higher group profile that benefits the individuals by association, to create a hub for curators and commissioners to more easily locate potential talent.
Selected art collectives
- A.a.s (art group)
Allied Arts Guild (Menlo Park, CA) (US)- Alterazioni Video
- American Abstract Artists
Ana Taban (Juba, South Sudan)- Ant Farm
- Archigram
- Artel of Artists
- Art.Net
- A$AP Mob
BGL (Québec City, Canada)
Brew House Association (Pittsburgh, PA, USA)- Brixton Artists Collective
- Cacophony Society
- Chicago Artists' Coalition
- CoBrA
- Colab
Coven (Montreal, Canada)- Critical Art Ensemble
- Disorient
- etoy
- Experimental Skeleton
- Fashion Architecture Taste
- Fluxus
- Gelitin
General Idea (Canada)- Guerrilla Girls
House of YES (Brooklyn, NY)- Independents (Oporto artist group)
- Indecline
- IRWIN
island6 (China)- Jocjonjosch
- Kroesos Foundation
Liu Dao (Shanghai)
The Mischief Makers (Nottingham, UK)- My Barbarian
- Negativland
- Neue Slowenische Kunst
- NMP (art collective)
North Edmonton Sculpture Workshop[1][2][3][4][5][6]
- Nsumi
- Odd Future
- Paper Rad
- PFFR
Phylum (San Francisco, CA, US)
Prosa Mutante[7] (Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina)- Reclaim the Streets
Red Herring Artists(UK)- Royal Chicano Air Force
- RTMark
- San Francisco Mime Troupe
Satellite Collective (New York City, NY, US)- Serializer
SITO (US)
Sol Collective (California, US )
SuttonBeresCuller (Seattle, WA, US)
Temporary Services (US)
The Handicraft Guild (Minneapolis)
Theia mania (East Coast, US)
The 7 Fingers (Quebec, Canada)
Toca Boca (Stockholm, Sweden)
Torolab (Mexico)
Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art (Minneapolis)
fr:Transquinquennal (in French) (Brussels, Belgium)- United Congress
Uranian Phalanstery (New York City, New York)[8][9]
Visual Collaborative (United States)
Volatile Works (Montreal)
Vox Populi (Philadelphia)- !WOWOW!
- xurban collective
- Yellow House Artist Collective
- Ztohoven
See also
- Musical collective
References
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^ “War, Peace Among Themes of Sculpture Exhibition”, Gilbert Bouchard, Edmonton Journal, July 8, 2005
^ "Prairie Daily: Winnipeg architect's 99 red balloons, Saskatchewan pet owners take DIY too far, Calgary food drive, and Edmonton's scrap metal sculptors - Spectator Tribune". 2 November 2012.
^ [1], Profile page of La Prosa Mutante at Red Federal de Poesia from the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Argentina (In Spanish)
^ "Artists' Collective and Burial Society Goes on the Move". The New York Times. September 12, 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-13.
^ "The Curious Mystery of the Sidewalk Tombstone". The New York Times. July 7, 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-14.Mr. Lankenau found the marker in front of 326 East Fourth Street, which for decades has housed the Uranian Phalanstery and First Gnostic Lyceum, an artists’ collective and burial society founded by Richard Oviet Tyler and his wife, Dorothea. The three-story double-width brick town house, which was just sold for more than $3 million, contained a small synagogue for a congregation of immigrants from Knyahynychi, now in Ukraine.
External links
- Artist Collectives
- Searchable database of Art Groups and Collective in Canada and the US
- Virtual Library list of Ceramic Arts Guilds, Groups, and Collectives
- Chicago group Temporary Services webliography of "Groups and Spaces" includes many artists' collectives
- A doctoral study of Exploding Cinema, a London collective of artists and filmmakers
