The Floating Lab Collective

The Floating Lab Collective is a Metropolitan Washington DC area-based group of artists. They began their activities as a collective in 2007 during Multimediale, a new media art show in Washington DC. Their first piece was titled “Protesting on Demand.” In 2007 they participated in a TRANSITiO_MX, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico, a media art festival, with a localized version of the piece “Protesting on Demand”.

Naming the Mountain: A People’s Memorial to the Mountains of Appalachia

1-A gathering of musicians, performers, and visual artists in Whitesburg, Kentucky, dedicated to memorializing the mountains affected by Mountain Top Removal
2-A quilt, memorializing the mountains affected by Mountain Top Removal
3-A video, documenting the experience of the creation of these works

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Collabarts.org

Collabarts.org was established in December 2005 as a resource and platform for artists, theorists and art students setting out to offer a source of information, dissemination and discussion about collaborative art practice. The site hosts a number of commissioned essays and interviews including some important published and as yet unpublished essays on collaboration that have been generously contributed to the site by their writers. There are also a large number of links to relevant articles and artists’ websites. In addition the timeline for collaborative art practice sets out to place artistic collaboration in a historical perspective in relation to cultural and political events.

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Radical Education Collective

In 2006, a project known as Radical Education was initiated. The basic idea was to find ways of “translating” radical pedagogy into the sphere of artistic production, with education being conceived not merely as a model but also as a field of political participation. The aim of Radical Education, then, was to create a unique “progressive” micro-political space within the gallery ifself, a kind of critical antipodes to both the conservative and neoliberal tendencies that predominate in the art system. Right from the start, Radical Education was understood in the sense of “heterogeneous spaces”, in which art would be but one field of activity among others. For this reason, the project was all the more critical toward art’s extended domains, e.g. socially engaged art, relational art and participatory art – forms of art-making that often include in their projects, in an uncritical way, transversal practices, practices of self-organization and practices in which it is not clear where art ends and politics begins; as a result, such practices become normalized. Radical Education, then, aimed not only at interpretations of various forms of art/activism, but in fact at “the production of space”, basing itself on the principles of transversality, which is not some predetermined form but is rather constituted through events, different kinds of alliances, crossings and collective organizing.

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Round Robin Collective

A group of thirteen Brooklyn-based artists, the Round Robin Artist Collective interacts regularly, creating a discourse that exists apart from commercial galleries.

The Round Robin Collective presents:
ECSTATIC

March 13 – April 4, 2010
Opening reception: Friday, March 12, 7-9 pm

The former convent of St. Cecilia’s Parish
21 Monitor Street, Brooklyn, NY

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Carrotworker’s Collective

We are a London-based group of current or ex interns, mainly from the creative and cultural sectors, who regularly meets to think together around the conditions of free labour in contemporary societies.

We are currently undertaking a participatory action research around voluntary work, internship, job placements and compulsory free work in order to understand thier impact they have on material conditions of existence, life expectations and sense of self, together with their implications in relation to education, life long training, exploitation, and class interest.

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Turbulence Newspaper 05

In the early eighties, Swiss author p.m. – the most common initials in the Zurich telephone directory – published Bolo’Bolo, ‘a fi eld guide to organising utopias’, in the words of one reviewer. ‘Replete with maps, drawings, a new lexicon and universally recognised symbols, and “a planetary menu for subversion”, the text could be considered a political nerd’s version of one of Tolkien’s fantasies, but its references to real events and refl exive tone give the book a kind of crackpot sense of real possibility.’ A quarter-century later, p.m. is still planning.

Read the Whole Article (PDF)

The Sticky Institute

Sticky Institute is an Artist Run Initiative fusing an exhibiting and open resource working space with a non profit retail environment housed in Degraves Street Subway under Flinders Street, Melbourne.

By bypassing the conventional gallery system, Sticky redefines the notion of a retail environment as a non profit arts space dedicated to Australian and international zine culture. Zines are provided additional exposure through Sticky’s presence at various art and literature festivals nationally.

Sticky’s instore artist program involves open monthly arts talks, workshops, zine launches,and ongoing discussion and debate. The open resources program involves badge machines, photocopying, long armed staplers, a paper guillotine, stationary and typewriters. In 2010 Melbourne’s biannual Festival of the Photocopier returns in full force for the month of February.

Sticky is supported by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria and are assisted by the Australian Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body. Sticky is indebted to its strong team of volunteers (past and present) who keep the organisation open six days a week. In addition, Sticky is supported by a special troupe of friends within industry who assist the organisation practically in our development and growth.

Good Essay! (PDF)

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The Collective Foundation

The Collective Foundation is a research and development organization offering services to artists and arts organizations. The Collective Foundation focuses on fostering mutually beneficial exchange and collective action by designing practical structures and utilizing new web-based technologies.

Ultimately the central concern of the Collective Foundation is to serve as an ongoing experimental process and catalyst for new ideas. CF proposes ‘bottom-up’ and decentralized forms of organization and investigates the formation and distribution of resources. This means inventing new forms of funding and new ways of working together. Like the Art Workers’ Coalition, who proposed pragmatic solutions to problems faced by artists, the Collective Foundation seeks alternative operational solutions, while reducing the bureaucratic formalities of overhead and administration.

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Numu Arts Collective

Numu Arts Collective is a Brooklyn-based grassroots organization for emerging artists who believe in the importance of community and see the infinite possibilities for change through art in our world. Our vision is to establish a group of motivated, passionate, inspired individuals who nurture and challenge each other’s ideas, and collaborate in organizing workshops, artshops, and shows to share our work.

We aim to create an environment that stimulates and supports inspiration, collaboration, and artistic revelation— a place where artists gather to develop their craft while exploring other methods of creation.

Sonic Medicine Wheel happing on December 21st!

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Sight School

Sight School an artist run storefront located at 5651 San Pablo in Oakland, Ca. The space began from a desire to create dialogue around new modes of living and being in the world in order to reveal connections between art and life.

Sight School is run by artist Michelle Blade.