Pil Kollectiv

Pil Kollectiv is a London-based artist, writer and researcher working collaboratively with Galia Kollectiv as the duo Pil and Galia Kollectiv. Their practice spans performance, installation, video, writing and curating, critically engaging with themes of labour, futurism, posthumanism and anti-capitalist critique. Affiliated with the University of Reading’s School of Arts and Communication Design (Fine Art division), their research outputs are archived in the institutional repository CentAUR.

Research Interests: Their work interrogates the intersections of art, politics and economics, focusing on:

• Anti-Humanist Critique: Deconstructing anthropocentric ideologies in art and labour.
• Immaterial Labour: Examining creative work under neoliberal capitalism.
• Performance and Documentation: Exploring how live art is archived and re-performed.
• Post-Digital Aesthetics: Investigating the materiality of digital culture.

Key Themes in Publications (2023-2024): Recent works like Subversive Performance in the Age of Human Capital (2023) and Sound Strategies (2024) delve into music as ideological apparatus and the subversion of capitalist work ethics through performance. Their output consistently critiques the commodification of creativity, proposing alternative collective and anti-work imaginaries.

Exhibitions & Projects: Notable shows include (in)visible propaganda (2019, Japan) and EuroNoize (2019-2020), which combine video retrospectives with new commissions exploring economic despair and nationalist aesthetics.

Collaborative Practice: Working as a duo since 2006, their projects often blur authorship, merging research, fiction and activism. Future directions include expanding their Strategic Sanctuary for the Destruction of Free Will series, probing post-work futures through speculative performance.