What makes a collective?

Notes from Stammtisch (round table) with Collectif Le Salon & guests, 26. Mai 2024:

  • What are the conditions, that a Collectif can come into being and sustain itself?
  • It can be simple ideas, but with the right approach and people, those can be exploited in a rich and fun way as well.
  • The Stammtisch as a form of collective longing for community
  • Tensions between individuality and artistic freedom and normalising in a collective (in materiality and organisations)
  • What different forms can collectives take? How does size, scope, locality, ideals and all of those things influence shape and outcome of a collective
  • Collectives as forms of communities for post-artschool-people
  • Creating possibilities for serendipity and lo-key exchange
  • collectives revolting against the art system and creating safe and caring spaces
  • revolting against the drive to create art that sticks and stays forever, having less stress and more spontaneity, resting in the moment
  • The collective is actually also just a knot in a larger rhizomatic network of people going after doing their things
  • Breaking the art context through the materiality of the exhibition space, making the audience feeling at ease and at home

Stammtisch

I’d love to think more about this concept.