GCC, Figure B: Micro Council, 2013. Wood, brass, acrylic glass, glass, gold leaf, paint, Installation view at “GCC: Achievements in Retrospective,” 2014, Sharjah Art Foundation Art Spaces.

On May 4, 2015, I moderated and organized a discussion as part of Frieze Talks 2015, Next Top Models: New Forms for Artists’ Collectives. The discussion, which included Abdullah Al-Mutairi (GCC), Jamal Cyrus (Otabenga Jones & Associates), and Dena Yago (K-HOLE), related to an essay I published in Frieze in 2013, “All for One.” It explored how artists’ collectives today are learning from or deviating from previous historical collectives, such as General Idea, Group Material or Art & Language. The panel looked at how artists’ collectives today are enacting local and national politics, and how some of them are using techniques of branding and marketing to define their practices.