In their many activities – communal vegan dinners, exhibitions, workshops, concerts, assemblies, printmaking – we can sense shared concerns about developing modes of autonomization and reflection about political emancipation. The collective currently work from a space located in the Obrera neighborhood of Mexico City. This will involve ongoing study sessions, masquerades on the streets, and reanimations of archival objects from the archives.Ī creative community that emerges from continuous making, Cráter Invertido have a lot to teach us. Collective, critical energy will be their main resource in exploring the present and historical political and social struggles, as well as future-evoking imaginaries in both Mexico and South Korea.
The current associate participants include 32º East Ugandan Arts Trust, Kampala, Uganda, Centre Soleil d’Afrique, Bamako, Mali, Darb 1718 Contemporary Art and Culture Center, Cairo, Egypt, KUNCI Cultural Studies Center, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and Más Arte Más Acción, Chocó, Colombia.įor further information on the application procedure, please check on: GB11, Cooperativa Cráter Invertido (founded 2011, Mexico City, now comprising Jazael Olguín Zapata, Diego Teo, Sari Dennise, Yollotl Alvarado, Andrés Villalobos, Andrés García Riley, Rodrigo Treviño, Dasha Chernysheva, Aline Hernandez, Estefanía Palacios, Wayzatta Fernández, and Juan Caloca) are engaging with the 5.18 Archives as both context and resource and activating a temporary gallery space on its third floor. The granted organizations are invited to join the platform as associate participants.
Projects should focus on research or development of new perspectives on specific social, cultural, economic, and/or climate issues, or the development of new forms of collaborations and co-creations. While the participating organizations of Arts Collaboratory are provided financial support for a multi-year program and its process is closed, Arts Collaboratory continues to provide smaller financial support (max 15,000 euros) for individual projects by visual arts organizations in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East that stimulate social innovation. PICHA Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo Visual Arts Network of South Africa (VANSA) Johannesburg, South Africa Arts Collaboratory will be a platform where these communities meet, enabling the sharing of knowledge across regions, borders, and languages, based on a common ground consisting of an affirmative approach towards a more egalitarian, sustainable, and joyous world.Īl-Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary ArtJerusalem, Palestine They often bring together local artists and other heterogeneous groups to foster a cooperating community while endeavoring to connect it to an international context. The diverse organizations of Arts Collaboratory develop a broad array of art projects that bring to the fore new approaches, thoughts, and realities in engaging with their respective local contexts, if not intervening in the status quo.
To help enact this process, we are pleased to welcome Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, a Utrecht-based organization for artistic research and experimentation, as associate partner. Furthermore, Arts Collaboratory aspires to be a unique form of transnational network for art and organizational practices that experiment with different collaborative structures, and is committed to working closely with all the participating organizations. After the experience of the last seven years, Arts Collaboratory will now have an increased focus on socially innovative arts processes in which various methods and dilemmas around the role of art in social change are publicly shared and critically explored. The mission of Arts Collaboratory is to promote collaborative, inventive, and open visual arts practices that are socially engaging and transformative.Īrts Collaboratory was co-initiated in 2007 by DOEN Foundation and Hivos, two Dutch foundations, as a financial support structure and program of exchange for art initiatives in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Arts Collaboratory is a platform for transnational exchange and cooperation made up of over 20 arts organizations from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.