B. Vision

Vision

Arts Collaboratory is an organisation that we build and are a part of, that doesn't mean that AC limits or constricts our autonomy as organisations and our work with other networks or communities. The aim of AC is to create an ecosystem to support different organisations in order to coexist and sustain themselves. The ecosystem is thus an assemblage of various interdependent networks, resources, and organisations, like a living organism.

Arts Collaboratory envisions an ecosystem comprising 25 organisations which acts as one translocal organisation. This does not mean a mere collectivisation in place of individual organisations. Rather, the strength of Arts Collaboratory lies in each individual organisation embedded in their specific local context and working accordingly, while being connected trans-nationally and considering the relationship between the AC and its communities and its accountability to them[8]. Our difference and diversity are key elements for this ecosystem in this regard, as well as the fact that we are an ‘unnatural network’ in the sense that we did not gather by affinity or common interest by our own initiative. Nevertheless, we are connected through common desires and struggles. Four strong desires are recognized in forming our vision:

1. Create a paradigm shift in the post-colonial and neo-liberal contexts

2. Recognize our sustainability as the highest value for the ecosystem

3. Implement the concept of Study instead of demonstration and administration

4. Combine Radical imagination and pragmatism through thoughtful organisation