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Gudskul: Collective Study and Contemporary Art Ecosystem
Mai Ling
Nhà Sàn Collective
Projek Rabak
Republic of the Other
Tomorrow Girls Troop

Questionnaire on Collective Practices

December 2022–March 2023
In: Thinking Collectives / Collective Thinking, ed. by Eva Bentcheva, Annie Jael Kwan, and Ming Tiampo, Worlding Public Cultures (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025), pp. 13–30
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Six Asian collectives — Gudskul, Mai Ling, Nhà Sàn, Projek Rabak, Republic of the Other, and Tomorrow Girls Troop — reflect on why and how they work together. Through shared insights on care, conflict, authorship, hierarchy, and burnout, the questionnaire reveals collectivism as friendship, survival, and mutual learning that sustains creative ecosystems beyond institutional models.
Keywords: collective practices; collaboration; friendship; radical honesty; kinship
Rights: © by the author(s). Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Part of Thinking Collectives / Collective Thinking Containing:
Thinking Collectives/Collective Thinking: Introduction / Eva Bentcheva, Annie Jael Kwan, Ming Tiampo
Questionnaire on Collective Practices: December 2022–March 2023 / Gudskul: Collective Study and Contemporary Art Ecosystem, Mai Ling, Nhà Sàn Collective, Projek Rabak, Republic of the Other, Tomorrow Girls Troop
what kind of we can we be?: collective futures / various contributors
what kind of we could we be?: the poetics of we / various contributors
Thinking Operationally: Collectivism in Modern Japan and Its Contemporary Evolution / Reiko Tomii
Artist-Curator Collectives in Southeast Asia / Eva Bentcheva
‘The Only Art Form that Works’: Reflections on Collectivity from South Korea [2023] / Soyoon Ryu
what kind of we could we be?: collective thinking by collectives / various contributors
Title
Questionnaire on Collective Practices
Subtitle
December 2022–March 2023
Author(s)
Gudskul: Collective Study and Contemporary Art Ecosystem
Mai Ling
Nhà Sàn Collective
Projek Rabak
Republic of the Other
Tomorrow Girls Troop
Identifier
https://doi.org/10.37050/wpc-co-01_02
Description
Six Asian collectives — Gudskul, Mai Ling, Nhà Sàn, Projek Rabak, Republic of the Other, and Tomorrow Girls Troop — reflect on why and how they work together. Through shared insights on care, conflict, authorship, hierarchy, and burnout, the questionnaire reveals collectivism as friendship, survival, and mutual learning that sustains creative ecosystems beyond institutional models.
Is Part Of
Thinking Collectives / Collective Thinking
Place
Berlin
Publisher
ICI Berlin Press
Date
28 October 2025
Subject
collective practices
collaboration
friendship
radical honesty
kinship
Rights
© by the author(s)
Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Language
en-GB
page start
13
page end
30
Source
Thinking Collectives / Collective Thinking, ed. by Eva Bentcheva, Annie Jael Kwan, and Ming Tiampo, Worlding Public Cultures (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025), pp. 13–30
Cite as: Gudskul: Collective Study and Contemporary Art Ecosystem, Mai Ling, Nhà Sàn Collective, Projek Rabak, Republic of the Other, and Tomorrow Girls Troop, ‘Questionnaire on Collective Practices: December 2022–March 2023’, in Thinking Collectives / Collective Thinking, ed. by Eva Bentcheva, Annie Jael Kwan, and Ming Tiampo, Worlding Public Cultures (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025), pp. 13-30 <https://doi.org/10.37050/wpc-co-01_02>