COLLECTIVE TASK, founded in 2006, is an international group of artists and poets with over 40 revolving participants. Our premise is simple: at a specified time (usually the first day of a month) our group receives a task, or prompt, for the other members to complete within the given timeframe. Responses arrive in any digital medium: texts, photos, videos, sound. These monthly responses appear on our website. The site is open to the public but is mostly viewed by the collective itself.  In this way, our collective echoes the Mail Art projects of the 1960s-70s. Additionally, we have published three volumes of our collective responses.

COLLECTIVE TASK performed at MoMA, the Berlin Poetry Festival, and several other venues. In 2017, we facilitated a workshop version of COLLECTIVE TASK at the Goethe Institut in Baghdad and Florence. Recently, we have expanded to support the publication of collective and collaborative art projects beyond our monthly task responses.

COLLECTIVE TASK, currently has 7 cycles with over 70 tasks and more than 1000 responses by 96 participants.

header image: Rin Johnson and Shiv Kotecha, cycle 5 task 01