Collectives Without Consensus?
Summary
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Collectives
Winter 2022
This issue examines how working collectively problematizes power relations within art institutions and groups and how this affects the implementation of less hierarchical structures. Given the urgent need to act, in a world where a state of emergency has become permanent, laboratories of social action, interdisciplinary research groups, and international discussion forums are forming on the margins of the art field. Seeking alternative forms of “being together,” these new collectives are reviving the concerns of several decades of shared creation.
Editorial
Feature
The Shared Condition of Individual Thought
No One Gives a F**k About a Cop and Fredy: Conveying the Voices of the Collectivity
Toward an Ecology of Practices: The Research Group as Artist
Imagining Otherwise: The Indigenous Curatorial Collective on the Expansive Possibilities of Collective Work
Curating the School
Talking Cure: Dialogue as Collaborative Resistance
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This issue is interested in all forms of immersion in contemporary art. How are artists critically engaging with immersive technologies? Conversely, what kinds of practices are challenging technology in their pursuit of immersion? How are these experiences breaking down the boundaries between spectator, body, and art? We put forward proposals that rely on listening and sustained attention rather than on amplification and sensory overload – works using devices that are sometimes relatively simple and non-invasive, sometimes a little more elaborate, but in which participation is, with a few nuances, neither passive nor devoid of critical thinking.
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bleu de lieu, 2023-2024.
Photo: Cléo Sjölander, courtesy of the artists