Author Archives: artcollectives

MA Curating and Collections, Chelsea College of Arts, UAL
2025 Degree Show
Dates: July 7–12, 2025
Private View: July 7, 6–9pm
Location: Cookhouse Gallery, Chelsea College of Arts, 16 John Islip St, London SW1P 4JU

The MA Curating and Collections course at Chelsea College of Arts, under the leadership of Dr. Lina Džuverović, announces the class of 2025 MA Degree Show titled Now You See: Responding/Ignoring, Remembering/Forgetting, Seeing/Unseeing. 

This three-part exhibition is the culmination of extensive student research conducted across three curatorial labs. Among them, And Others Lab investigates labour and value in the art field, as part of And Others: The Gendered Politics and Practices of Art Collectives Lab, led by Dr. Lina Džuverović.

Responding/Ignoring looks critically at the invisible labour in the art world, focusing on the often overlooked yet essential processes of ideation, research, revision, and production. By highlighting the behind-the-scenes labour that sustains artistic practices, the project questions structural inequalities embedded within contemporary art systems, through visual display and workshops developed in dialogue with Bare Minimum Collective and artist José García Oliva. 

Curators:
Antonia Mejía Arango, Chuyan Wang, Denise Lin, Jiaqi Cao, Jimin Lee, Junwen He, Marina Quevedo Bermejo, Mingran Zhang, Natalia Godoy, Qingyang Sun, Qinxue Lin, Samuel Weill, Sara Paowana, Shuhui Yang, Tianyi Xie, Yiyang Jiang, Yu Wang, Zeyue Zhang, Zhining Chen

Build-A-Union: A Collective Workshop on Invisible Labour

Date: Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM – 14:00 PM
Location: The Cookhouse (And Others Lab Room), Chelsea College of Arts, UAL

Welcome to the Build-A-Union, a collective, conversation-based public programme presented by And Others Lab as part of the MACC Degree Show 2025. This event invites participants to reflect on invisible labour in the arts, while imagining the structure, values, and demands of a
hypothetical union for cultural workers. Through playful yet critical group activities, we’ll explore how collective action can address issues of unpaid work, care responsibilities, and working conditions often overlooked in the art field.

What will happen：

1.⁠ ⁠Pass the Helmet
A helmet — symbolizing invisible labour — will be passed around the room. As it moves, each participant will take the floor to express their individual demands as a cultural worker.
2.⁠ ⁠Caring Together
A 45-minute open discussion shaped around 2-3 key topics relating to care work , labour rights , and collective well-being in the cultural sector. Participants will work in small groups to discuss, reflect, and share .

Free & open to all – sign up via Eventbrite

BIRMAC in association with Artpool, is delighted to celebrate the launch of ‘What Will Be Already Exists’ – Temporalities of Cold War Archives in East-Central Europe and Beyond’ an edited volume emerging from a conference organised around Artpool’s 40th anniversary, published by Transcript Verlag in 2021. The book includes texts by Emese Kürti / Zsuzsa László (eds.) with essays by Zdenka Badovinac, Judit Bodor-Roddy Hunter, David Crowley, Lina Džuverović, Daniel Grún, Emese Kürti, Karolina Majewska-Güde, Kristine Stiles, Sven Spieker and Tomasz Zaluski.

Invited respondents, art scholar, critic, and curator Ieva Astahovska (Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia) and art historian and curator, Cristian Nae (George Enescu National University of Arts, Iasi, Romania), will offer their responses to the publication, which will be followed by a panel discussion with the editors and a number of contributors. Chaired by Dr Sophie Hope (Department of Film Media and Cultural Studies, Birkbeck College).

How do artist archives survive and stay authentic in radically changed contexts? The volume addresses the challenge of continuity, sustainability, and institutionalization of archives established by Eastern European artists. At its center stands the 40th anniversary of the Artpool Art Research Center founded in 1979 in Budapest as an underground institution based on György Galántai’s ‘Active Archive’ concept. Ten internationally renowned scholars propose contemporary interpretations of this concept and frame artist archives not as mere sources of art history but as models of self-historicization. The contributions give knowledgeable insights into the transition of Cold War art networks and institutional landscapes.

*Please note that this event will be recorded and made available to the public after the event

Versions of my essay ‘Collaborative Actions, Continued Omissions: Notes Towards a Feminist Revisiting of Yugoslav Collectives in the 1960s and 1970s – the Case of the OHO Group‘ have been published in  ‘Fragments for Studies on Art Organisations‘, Kuda.org, 2020, Novi Sad (Serbian and English); in ‘What Will Be Already Exists – Temporalities of Cold War Archives in East-Central Europe and Beyond’, transcript Verlag, 2021 (English) and Enigma Journal, Budapest, 2021 (Hungarian).

Interviews with several cultural workers in Ljubljana and Belgrade have been completed. They were held in English and Serbian (whatever felt most comfortable for the interviewees) and now comes the time for transcription and translation.