Dispatx Art Collective

For more than four years Dispatx Art Collective has developed a rigorous practice of creative and curatorial investigation. Over eight collections of original material in various media, with over 100 projects developed online, over a dozen collaborations and with the participation of over 70 artists from 50 countries, we have explored and questioned the rich intersections between creative and curatorial practice. Our focus has been on generating dialogue and discussion, looking to promote critical debate in both theory and practice, through cross-platform practice, curatorial reviews, as well as opening up the creative method to public commentary and interaction.

As it stands, Dispatx is a tremendous source of artistic projects that have emerged or formed part of this interconnection and openness, which constitute nodes of creative discussion from which critical discourse and criteria for engaging with contemporary art practice may be drawn. In a time when ‘crisis’ seems insistent in contexts both in and beyond art, we feel that our work must address the need for practice to be coupled with the means for the critique of its own processes and products.

In the months following the publication of the latest collection of projects, Appropriation in Creative Practice, we will be reconstructing the website in response to the new theoretical and discursive demands we consider of great importance, and in order to increase the impact the site has in all creative contexts. We also hope to share more information and input with our users, as well as extending our collaborative practice with other groups.

Make will be closed until a new proposal for work is developed. We would like to remind users that the existing collections of material can be engaged with – tagged, organised and re-curated in ways that affect the presention the site as a whole – using My Dispatx.