On "Sharing Economies"

Fellow Author(s)

Research Project

collectivise (culture)
mapping collaborative practices in arts and culture

Sharing Economies

Collectives are experts in distributing and sharing resources. They often come up with unique solutions and can work under conditions of scarcity.

So we don’t want to be always relying on funds. That’s why we have different revenue streams. Like for example we have workshops happening. We have paid residencies for artists. They come with their own funding. We also have a commercial leg […] which is an art production company. […] Some art consultancy that could provide us the revenue to stay alive and not only relying on funds. (ARD Art Institution)

Because the first edition of interference, it was a zero budget. We managed to host this festival with, 23 international artists. Uh, somewhere between, 12 and 15,000 visitors throughout the festival, with €1,000 that were directed towards cooking food for the community and that. So it’s not that we didn’t have any resources. We had the most valuable resource, which was, the support from the community. (Interference Light Art)

Well, then the collective emerged. […] Many graffiti artists appeared, […] and they were the ones who truly started creating the movement. […] They financed themselves. They found solutions for many things, but the main solution was that they would take money, invest it in a friend, take money to do graffiti, bring people together, hold workshops, and just create something. (Bléch Esm)