本项研究对中国当代艺术家参与集体组织进行了分析。我探索集体组织的妨碍与战略，具体而言，分析一个艺术家集体组织的发展，“中国的独立艺术家联盟（CIAA）”。数据是通过参与观察以及通过CIAA的创始人访谈收集。在数据里面包含1000多个艺术家，学者和活动家的贡献。分析组织动机的结果表示揭示了组成员如何认可“集体”。本作家采用了一个把社会运动理论和集体行动理论结合起来的创新的概念理论体的。在这种格式中，社会，政治，经济和内部挑战的描述成为分析组织发展与挑战的4个镜头。研究结果表明，支持CIAA艺术家集体的动力在各个艺术家是毫无沾边。虽然这些差异的影响不大，但是他们可能在组织的生长产生有影响。然而，数据表明，面对艺术家的政治压力，创建一个互相彼此认可CIAA身份。此外，挑战组织发展的四个主要类别进行了探索：社会，经济，政治和内部。这些类别不单独占用的空间，并所面临的组织挑战及其成员的挑战，可以说是一个复杂的连接每个上面列出的类别的网络。

Data is collected through participant observation as well as through semi-structured interviews of the founders of the CIAA. Data analysis stretches beyond the scope of the main actors within the CIAA into a sphere representing over 1000 artists1, academics and activists in China.An analysis of group motivations is undertaken, which sheds light on how group members related to the ‘collective’ in which they were participating. A creative method at couching social movement theory within the surrounding sociopolitical context was employed. In this1The vast majority of the artists were connected through six weixin groups. Therefore, interaction between these artists as well as their interaction with the permanent members of the CIAA was primarily through weixin.format, a description of Societal, Political, Economic and Internal challenges became lenses from which models and concepts of social movement theory were observed and described. Findings suggest that individual motivations for joining and supporting the CIAA artist collective differ substantially. Although these differences have been reconcilable at the early stages of the organization’s development, they may have an impact in the growth of the organization. Nonetheless, data indicates that the political pressures faced by artists create a shared identity among CIAA participants and perhaps act as glue holding the collective together. Furthermore, four primary categories of challenges to organizational development are explored: Societal, Economic, Political and Internal. These categories did not occupy a separate space, and challenges faced by the organization and its members can be visualized as a complex network connecting each of the categories listed above.