Petrina Ng and Marsya Maharani run the collective Gendai, which forms part of Collective Collective (CoCo), a larger network of majority-racialized arts collectives to explore sharing of labour and resources to increase each other’s capacity.

Gendai is a collective-run organization founded in 2000 to support Japanese artists in diaspora in Tkaronto/Toronto. As an experimental endeavor of succession planning, when the former leadership wanted to retire: They held an open call to give the organization away. In its current iteration, Petrina and Marsya focus on network-building and systems change work that was led by racialized arts practitioners.

(1) Members of Collective Collective. Top left: Peter Rahul, Jenna Robar, Hanen Nanaa, Alexandra Hong, Geneviève Wallen. Bottom left: Marjan Verstappen, Marina Fathalla, raven lam, Ornette, Marsya Maharani, Aira, Petrina Ng. Not pictured: Lan “Florence” Yee.
(2) Logo of Collective Collective