展覧会「given（ギブン）」（1999）における集団的創造活動について

抄録

In recent years, the word ‘collective’ has been attracting attention in the world of art. The exhibition ‘given’ (1999) at the warehouses in Nagoya Port is a good material for considering collective creative activity. This is because it consisted of 7 group exhibitions, some of which had the collective artist-run spaces that have emerged in various places since the mid-1990s, as the background. However, these group exhibitions were mistakenly evaluated based on the characteristics and tendencies of the individual works exhibited. Therefore, it should be reconsidered from the perspective of the collective creative activity. The goal of this paper is to take the first step in clarifying the differences in collective creative activities between the participating groups. In order to achieve this goal, in this paper, in addition to researching various documents about the exhibition, including the reviews, two interviews were conducted with one participant from each of the groups (‘Port People’ and the ‘History of Port’). Based on these, we point out the flaws in the evaluation at the time, confirm the actual situation of the two groups’ exhibition, and make clear that the ‘given’ exhibition really consists of various collective creative activities.