As part of the Arts Collaboratory residency program, the Rijksakademie hosted the closing day of the Arts Collaboratory Assembly, which took place in the Netherlands this year.
Every year, Arts Collaboratory organises an assembly to reflect on their collaboration practices and think about the organisation’s future. Last year AC participated as lumbung artists at documenta fifteen, where their assembly was held. This year, the assembly took place in the Netherlands. For its last session, in the framework of the EU project ‘Artistic Ecologies: New Compasses, Tools and Alliances’, the Rijksakademie, together with Casco organised a gathering and dinner for Arts Collaboratory members and Rijksakademie residents: a session dedicated for AC member organisations to revisit collectively the experiences, feelings, and knowledges emerging from the Assembly while expanding collaboration by considering AC’s future—conjuring and imagining about scenarios for what will come next. It was an opportunity for residents and an international network of cultural organisers to reflect on tools for self-organization, care, and support, as well as the social lives of institutions.
About Arts Collaboratory:
Arts Collaboratory is an ecosystem of 24 diverse art organizations in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Europe, all focused on collective network governance. The organization engages in expanded artistic and curatorial experiments for social change and sustainability practices in their respective contexts while experimenting with new geographies of relations and webs of solidarities.
https://artscollaboratory.org/
Arts Collaboratory and the Rijksakademie:
The history of Arts Collaboratory is very much connected to the Rijksakademie, as it begins as an international network of artist-run spaces by Rijksakademie alums (RAIN). Many alums are still involved, and the RAIN archive is part of the Rijksakademie archive.