On "Crowd Knowledge"

Fellow Author(s)

Research Project

collectivise (culture)
mapping collaborative practices in arts and culture

Crowd Knowledge

Collectives do not depend on a single planning mind, but on compromises. Groups form naturally and take on responsibility together.

We didn’t choose each other. […] The space brought us together, actually. And then, after one year, I remember we had an exhibition […]. And the curator, she called us a collective. And we’ve never used this word, you know, or described us. We always described it as a project. Like a workshop, more like a space. But after a year, two years, with work and with time and days spent together, like, we melted into each other. And we started really, like, functioning as, uh, one body, as a collective. (El Warcha)

There are some values that, got stuck into our DNA because in the end, these values and this identity comes not only from the project, but especially from the people who work on these projects. So eventually you find yourself, redefining your values because you’re somehow having input and so on. And it’s an identity that that builds up, uh, slowly in some of the situations. It becomes harder, especially when it comes to new projects, new partners, new territories that we explore. (Interference Light Art)

Everyone lives in a socio-political life system. Meeting here, exchanging our knowledge and new information, that each one brought with him today in this space. […] We will discuss it. We will have different approaches until we will see similarity. Until we could create this idea that will project what is happening through our art. (DEBO)