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現在、京都上桂をベースとする共同体。
アーティストやキュレーターなど様々な形で文化芸術事業に従事しているもの。そうでないもの。
その振れ幅の中で、互いに有機的な連帯を形成しながらも、それぞれの意思で自発的に活動を行っている。

活動内容は、参加者によって異なる。
そのため、映像上映、事務所、基地、飲み屋、カフェ、住居、たまり場など、
スペースそれ自体は、様々なかたちで機能していく。

言うならば、人間を他の人間に結ぶ連帯とはどういうことか？その本質や可能性をひとつずつ実証していくこと。
流動的な構成メンバーで形成されるCollective Parasolの活動目的や意味は、
ひょっとしたら、そうしたことなのかもしれない。


In January 2010, Collective Parasol was founded in Kyoto as a private organization of art and social-cultural activity, by artists, curators, a filmmaker, art law specialist and art student. Collective Parasol is the name of community but at the same time it is the name of art space we run in Kyoto.

We do not have any clear framework but we are a fluid community so that each member could organize his/her own project, put together an idea with the other members and collaborate with guests from a wide range of fields who are working with creative projects. Our space functions as an open-ended platform, which could change itself according to projects. It could be a café, gallery, theater, studio, residency, meeting place for local people, and so on. In addition, the space is open to people other than the members and they could use this space in the physical/non-physical form, such as space, equipment, and technical supports from the members, in the same manner as a barter trade exchange.

Through demonstrating all these activities, Collective Parasol has started its journey into unknown territory to find a new form of ‘collective’, challenging the ideas of artist collective/community and alternative space, and its solidarity, its essentiality and possibility.