Camel Collective is a name under which diverse artists have worked since 2005. Camel Collective represents shifting methodologies, identities, and specific interests through which a collective practice has developed.
We juxtapose the methodologies of archival research, fictionalization, and dramatization, pitting instrumental reason against affect in an effort to incite an experience that, while stemming from research (institutions), is undisciplined by established discourse.
While the interests of Camel Collective are varied - we have been preoccupied by the political economy of education, and the difficulties encountered by artist collectives - our current interests are fixed on histories of obsolete image reproduction technologies.
This congress resuscitates the First World Congress of Free Artists, in Alba (1956) a meeting organized by Asger Jorn and Pinot Gallizio of the International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus which included members of th[...]
November 17, 2010
