[Basekamp Events] Collective Foundation - Apr 20 2010

[scott at basekamp.com]

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April 20, 2010 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm EST
Hi Everyone,

This Tuesday is another event in a year-long series of weekly conversations  
and exhibits in 2010 shedding light on examples of Plausible Artworlds.

This week we’ll be talking with Joseph del Pesco about three experimental  
grants developed by the Collective Foundation.

As recently mentioned in Art Work newspaper:

The Collective Foundation (CF) describes itself as “…a research and  
development organization offering services to artists and arts organizations.  
The Collective Foundation focuses on fostering mutually beneficial exchange  
and collective action by designing practical structures and utilizing new  
web- based technologies. Ultimately the central concern of the Collective  
Foundation is to serve as an ongoing experimental process and catalyst for  
new ideas. CF proposes ‘bottom-up’ and decentralized forms of  
organization and investigates the formation and distribution of resources.  
This means inventing new forms of funding and new ways of working together.  
Like the Art Workers’ Coalition, who proposed pragmatic solutions to  
problems faced by artists, the Collective Foundation seeks alternative  
operational solutions, while reducing the bureaucratic formalities of  
overhead and administration.”

In 2007, this San Francisco-based group issued three separate $500 grants to  
artists using a variety of creative fundraising strategies. For the  
Collective Library Grant, Collective Foundation solicited donations of 100  
art catalogs from ten area art spaces that were sold as one Collective  
Library. Sales of the library paid for an artist grant to facilitate research  
and participation for a web-based audio project that Collective Foundation  
hosts. Uncirculated or old exhibition catalogs are a very common surplus item  
at art spaces. A particularly sweet result of this sale was that the library  
was purchased not by an individual for private consumption, but by the San  
José Institute for Contemporary Art, which turned the books into a reading  
room.

The $500 YBCA Grant drew money from three separate sources in conjunction  
with an exhibit that Collective Foundation participated in at the Yerba Buena  
Center for Art (YBCA). Memberships sold during the exhibit opening, part of  
the sales from the Co-op Bar (another CF project created with artist Steve  
Lambert), and some of the sales from CF’s printing press generated a $500  
grant for an artist. The final jurors of the grant consisted of YBCA guards.

The $500 Collective Hosting grant generates funds from fees paid by artists  
who host their websites on CF’s web server, paying a $100.00 fee into a  
fund used for grants rather than giving it to an internet service provider.  
Those who pay into the fund then become the jurors for the grant. Source:  
www.collectivefoundation.org

See you all then!

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‘basekamp’
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