Social Practices Art Network

Collaborative Projects, Inc. (aka Colab): This Colab wikispace is not complete and is currently in the process of being created by the membership.”Colab” is the commonly used abbreviation of the New York City artists’ group, ”Collaborative Projects, Inc.” Colab was formed in 1978 after a series of open meetings to determine new venues for showing and creating work. Throughout its first ten years of activity, Colab was distinguished from other contemporary New York artists’ groups by its regular open meetings and open membership and collaborative productions of art shows, magazines, media production, performance, theater and film shows. Early group media efforts included the weekly live cable shows All Color News (non-fiction), 1978, Potato Wolf (fiction),1979-86, Red Curtain (fiction & non-fiction) 1979-83. During this period from 1978 through 1986 over 100 video shows were generated by the Colab membership in these group productions. Check out the site here