Gary Lucas's Gods and Monsters is a kaleidoscopic collective organized around Mr. Lucas's adventurous guitar playing.
Concerned for the safety of the Peace League Basketball Tournament participants, the collective organized buses to have them picked up "so they wouldn't have to cross enemy gang territory".
More moderate and progressive Christians deplore that, but don't really mobilize anything close to a collective, organized, and successful effort to disown it.
Michi Jigarjian and Libby Pratt, the duo behind the artist collective, organized Re-Current Uncovered this past Sunday, a 3-hour art experience aboard the Schooner Pioneer as it sailed around the southern waters of New York City.
From the late-90s to 2001, the collective organized 20-or-so large-scale multimedia events, including Junk, which paired jungle DJs with punk bands trading 20-minute sets, as well as an all-ages takeover of the Boston Children's Museum.
That doesn't mean that we can't win through collective organizing.
Hopefully New Draft Collective organizes another Re-Current next year, and more art collectives and intuitions explore the possibility of showcasing art outside of its normal habitats.
If Moana suggests that redemption comes when one leader is willing to sacrifice, Standing Rock serves as a reminder of the power of collective organizing.
In parts of the country where unionization is not allowed or is virtually impossible to achieve, we must work to change the laws and find alternative models of collective organizing.
With a new collective organizing another festival, Berlin Leuchtet ("Berlin Lights Up"), into co-existence with The Festival of Lights, a refocus occurred, shifting the attention onto more local artists who live and breathe light-based art.
