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Quiz: Which art collective do you belong to?

Should you be in the Black Audio Film Collective or are you a Hackney Flasher at heart? Take our quiz to find out

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  • The Blk Art Group

    Formed in Wolverhampton, England, in 1979, The Blk Art Group was an association of young black artists who, inspired by …
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    Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK)

    The Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) were a pioneering artist collective formed in the 1980s in Slovenia which addressed the social …
  • Performance of Yvonne Rainer's The Mind is a Muscle: Trio A, Judson Memorial Church, Greenwich Village, New York, 1966

    Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.)

    Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) was a collective formed in 1967 in New York to promote collaboration between the …
  • Romare Bearden Blue Shade 1972

    Spiral

    Spiral was a New York based African American collective formed in 1963 with the aim of addressing how African American …
  • Art Workers' Coalition (AWC)

    The Art Workers' Coalition (AWC) was a group of activists who came together in New York in 1969 to promote …
  • Fluxus

    Fluxus is an international avant-garde collective or network of artists and composers founded in the1960s and still continuing today
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    Autograph ABP

    Autograph ABP are an influential photography collective set up in 1988 to support photographers from racial minorities, and also to …
  • Afrapix

    Afrapix was a photographers' collective and agency founded in South Africa in 1982 which encouraged its members to use photography …

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  • USA. Washington, D.C. August 28, 1963. The March on Washington. © Leonard Freed/Magnum Photos

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  • COBRA members bringing their work to First International Exhibition of Experimental Artists, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, November 1949

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    Loosely defined, an art collective is a group of artists working together to achieve a common objective

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