Collective: Unconscious
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| Collective:Unconscious Corporation | |
| Image:CU I-Ching.gif | |
| Type | Performing Arts Collective |
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| Founded | 1994 |
| Headquarters | New York, NY |
| Origins | Lower East Side, New York, NY |
| Area served | New York, NY |
| Focus | Performing and Visual Arts |
| Website | http://www.weird.org |
Collective:Unconscious is a non-profit 501c3 confederation of artists working in the performance and visual arts, founded in New York City in early 1994. Previously based at 145 Ludlow Street in New York's Lower East Side, in 2004 it relocated to 279 Church Street in Tribeca.
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[edit] Statement of Purpose
The purpose of Collective:Unsconscious is:
1) To administrate a theater, rehearsal, and gallery space, referred to as the Collective Unconscious Facility,
2) To support the original work of its member/administrators, through the providing of personnel, equipment, and promotion.
[edit] History
[edit] Lower East Side
Collective Unconscious has produced hundreds of performances through the 1990's and 2000's, at its own facility and other at other locations. Collective:Unconscious members are the artistic directors of several ongoing performance groups, the Play Practice workshop, Collective:Unconscious Sub-Group Network 23, Collective:Unconscious Sub-Group IFAM, and Tribeca Lab Theater. These groups have mounted works at Collective's home facilities, the Knitting Factory, the BWAC festival at Red Hook, P.S. 122, Here, Exit Art, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, Theater for the New City, Mustard, La Plaza Cultural and the Sixth Street/Avenue B Garden, as well as touring internationally with the play Charlie Victor Romeo.
Collective:Unconscious founded its own parade- the July 4th Monster Parade. Collective: Unconscious artists have participated in several festivals, on and off site, including The New York International Fringe Festival and the Downtown Arts Festival. As a presenting organization, Collective Unconscious has presented hundreds of works mounted by outside artists, including Rachel Arieff, the Bindlestiff Family Circus, the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, the Reverend Jen's Anti-Slam, Faceboy'z Open Mic, Miss Murphy's Theater of Excess, Bob Powers the Tao Mu Theater ensemble (South Korea), and Sonia Armaniacio (Genoa). The facility has hosted several festivals, including the New York Fringe Festival, the Downtown Arts Festival, and the New York Lower East Side Film Festival.
The Collective shared a unique place in New York's off-off-Broadway and performance art theater history, along with fellow performance spaces in the neighborhood such as Surf Reality, Todo Con Nada (Nada), Gargoyle Mechanique, and Piano's, to name a few.
[edit] Tribeca
Collective:Unconscious moved to its Tribeca location in 2004, and launched new initiatives with the well-renowned theatrical group The Tank, among others.
