Duncan’s Cove, 2016. Photo by Chani Bockwinkel
Adapted from Margit Galanter / The Vivid Grove:
The Cave Coast Collective is a group experiment and collective project focused on the relationship between land and art, settler-colonialism, land stewardship, potential roles for artists in dismantling supremacy, and right relations in culture, race and economies.
Initiated by Margit Galanter through the Cave Forms project, the collective traveled up the coast of California in Spring 2016. The trip was based on of some major themes that emerged in the first years of Cave Forms, such as: What is the relationship between artistic authorship and collective imagining? What is a vivid archive? What are alternative economic structures in relation to art and capitalism? How can power structures be addressed and potentially reallocated through collective process?
The collective has organized and produced several events, including No Creativity - a collective performance experience; made a long-term commitment to pay the Shuumi Land Tax through Sogorea Te’ Land Trust; and has met in a variety of flexible contexts to continue their work - in seaweed, cave research, cultural inquiry, language, and supporting one another’s visions.
If you live in the East Bay, you live on unceded Ohlone Land. Sogorea Te’ Land Trust is an urban Indigenous woman-led land trust that facilitates the return of Indigenous land to Indigenous people.
Participating artists: alex cruse, Angela Reginato, Asia Wong, Avery Hudson, Chani Bockwinkel, Crystal Jiko Sasaki, Emelia (Jubilee July) Martinez Brumbaugh, estrella/x supernova, Frances Rosario, Geana Sieburger, Isa Leal, Kevin Lo, Lara Durback, Margit Galanter, Mollie Moorhead, mara poliak.