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Collective Creativity
Kunsthalle Fridericianum Kassel
1.5. - 17.7.2005.
 
Collective Creativity deals with different forms of collective artistic 
creativity, whose protagonists share common programs, ways of life, 
methodologies or political standpoints. The exhibition is focused on 
specific kinds of social tensions that serve as a common axis around 
which various group activities are being organized. It is interested in 
the different emancipatory aspects of collective work where 
collaborative creativity is not only a form of resisting the dominant 
art system and capitalist call for specialization, but also a 
productive and performative criticism of social institutions and 
politics.
 
By moving away from visions of the collective understood as a 
homogenous, unified body in which singularities are irrevocably drawn 
into an anonymous mass, collective creativity is inscribed in a field 
of exciting, creative interactions and multidirectional and 
unpredictable group dynamics. Through collective and group ways of 
operating and their relating to each other and toward the world at 
large, a complex terrain is being shaped in which projects of concrete 
social transformations are fused with ideas of radical individuation. 
These overlappings and intersections are exactly what makes the unique 
spaces of collectivism so attractive - it seems that only within them 
we can imagine the realization of our potentialities. Formed in the 
background of accomplishing tasks which are not possible to accomplish 
individually, experiences of collectivity are imposed as crucial 
transformational forces of individuals and society.
 
Groups / Artists:
3NOS3 | AA Bronson | Allegoric Postcard Union | Pawel Althamer in 
collaboration with Artur Zmijewski and Nowolipie Group | Art & Language 
| B+B | BankMalbekRau | Joseph Beuys | BijaRi | 
Bokhorov/Gutov/Osmolovsky | Collective Actions | Contra File | Escape 
Program | Etcetera... | flyingCity | Freud's Dreams Museum | General 
Idea | Gilbert & George | Gorgona | Group of Six Artists | Grupo de 
Arte Callejero | Gruppo Parole e Immagini | Guerilla Art Action Group | 
Dmitry Gutov | IRWIN | kleines postfordistisches Drama | Maj 75 | 
Moscow Portraits | Neue Slowenische Kunst | Oda Projesi | OHO | Pages 
in collaboration with Kianoosh Vahabi | Radek Community | Mladen 
Stilinovic | Superflex | SKART | Taller Popular de Serigrafia | 
Temporary Services and Angelo | The Revolution Will Not Be Televised | 
Tucuman Arde Archive (Graciela Carnevale) | Urucum | Zagreb - Cultural 
Kapital 3000 | What is to be done?...
 
Curated by What, How & for Whom / WHW (Ivet Curlin, Ana Devic, Natasa 
Ilic and Sabina Sabolovic). WHW is an independent curatorial collective 
that organizes different publication, exhibition and publishing 
projects and also directs Gallery Nova in Zagreb, Croatia.
 
The exhibition will be accompanied by a reader, published by Revolver, 
with contributions by: Art & Language, Collective Situaciones, Charles 
Esche, Ljiljana Filipovic, Jon Hendricks, Brian Holmes, IRWIN, Ana 
Longoni, Viktor Misiano, Angelika Nollert, WHW and Stephen Wright. 
Designed by Dejan Krsic. German/English edition, 350 pages, two colours 
with illustrations, ISBN: 3-86588-089-4
 
Collective Creativity  is a cooperation between Kunsthalle 
Fridericianum, Kassel and Siemens Arts Program, Munich.
 
 
Što, kako i za koga/WHW
What, How and for Whom
Baruna Trenka 4
10 000 Zagreb
Croatia
tel/fax + 3851 4922478