Collaboration in the arts is no longer a conscious choice to make a deliberate artistic statement, but instead a necessity of artistic survival. In todays hybrid world of virtual mobility, collaboration decentralizes creative strategies, enabling artists to carve new territories and maintain practice-based autonomy in an increasingly commercial and saturated art world. Collaboration now transforms not only artistic practices but also the development of cultural institutions, communities and personal lifestyles.
This book explores why collaboration has become so integrated into a greater understanding of creative artistic practice. It draws on an emerging generation of contributorsfrom the arts, art history, sociology, political science, and philosophyto engage directly with the diverse and interdisciplinary nature of collaborative practice of the future.
Introduction: The Work of Collaborative Art in the Age of Technology
Sondra Bacharach Part I: Collaboration in the Age of Technological Innovation
1. Pirate Film Societies: Rearranging Traditional Apparatus with
Inappropriate Technology Gabriel Menotti
2. Digital Street Art Gemma Argüello
and Sondra Bacharach 3.. Hybrid Modes of Collaborations in the Post-Socialist
Context: The Socio-Politically Engaged Art Practices of Big Hope and Matei
Bejenaru Izabel Galliera
4. Turkish Contemporary Art and the Emergent
Off-Space Artist Collectives Tijen Tunali Part II: Collaboration and the
Identity Crisis
5. The Solitary Author as Collective Fiction Karen Gover
6.
Collaboration's Gesture at the Impossible Tim Corballis
7. Technological
Impacts on Musical Collaboration: Can The Postal Service Survive? Henry Pratt
8. Empathy, surviving, collective reflexivity Legwork (Tobey Albright,
Timothy Murray, Egle Obcarskaite)
9. Collective Action and the Reciprocity of
Friendship Katerina Reed-Tsocha Part III: Rethinking Collaborations
10.
Sisterly Love: The Collaborative Art of Sisters Louise Mayhew
11. Future
Calls The Dawn Jenny Gillam and Eugene Hansen
12. Unsettling Action and Text:
A Collaborative Experience Bartram O'Neill 13 The Politics of Collaboration:
Robin Rhode & The Drowned Piano Leora Maltz-Leca 14.Wedge: A
Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration by Janine Antoni and Jill Sigman Sherri
Irvin
15. Combination,Collaboration and Creation: The Case of Jasper Johns
Peter Murphy
16. Gathering: Artistic Collaborations in Glass Daniella
Barroqueiro
Sondra Bacharach is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Siv B. Fjęrestad is a Norwegian-born artist and curator, living in New Zealand. She holds an MA in Visual Arts from Goldsmiths College in London.
Jeremy Neil Booth is an artist, writer, and publisher currently based in Germany. He holds an MFA from Bauhaus Universität, Weimar, Germany.
