Collective Unconscious is a confederation of artists working in the visual and performing arts which was founded in early 1995; its facility is based at Ludlow Street. the organization functions in a two-fold manner:
A) To administrate a theater, rehearsal, and gallery space, referred to as the Collective Unconscious Facility, that is open to the artistic community at large for low rental rates, and
B) To support the original work of its fifteen member/administrators, through the providing of personnel, equipment, and promotion.
Collective:Unconscious
is first and foremost an experimental theater.
Where once whores peddled their very flesh,
the artists of the Collective have used their powers to transform the space
into nothing less than an art brothel of the highest caliber.
HISTORY:
Since its founding in 1995, Collective Unconscious has produced dozens of performances, 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 Ludlow Street facility, the Knitting Factory, the BWAC festival at Red Hook, P.S. 122, Here, Exit Art, Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center, Theater for the New City, Mustard, La Plaza Cultural and the Sixth Street/Avenue B Garden. Collective: Unconscious has even founded its own parade- the July 4th Monster Procession. 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, the Collective Unconscious facility at Ludlow Street has presented hundreds of works mounted by outside artists, including the Bindlestiff Family Circus, the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, the Reverend Jen's Anti-Slam, Miss Murphy's Theater of Excess, 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.
