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.
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List of Table and Figures |
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Acknowledgments |
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Introduction: Collaborative Art in the Twenty-First Century |
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SECTION I Collaboration in the Age of Technological Innovation |
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1 Pirate Film Societies: Rearranging Traditional Apparatus with Inappropriate Technology |
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3 Hybrid Modes of Collaborations in the Post-Socialist Context: The Socio-Politically Engaged Art Practices of Big Hope and Matei Bejenaru |
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4 Turkish Contemporary Art and the Emergent Off-Space Artist Collectives |
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SECTION II Collaboration and the Identity Crisis |
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5 The Solitary Author as Collective Fiction |
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6 Collaboration's Gesture at the Impossible |
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7 Technological Impacts on Musical Collaboration: Can the Postal Service Survive? |
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8 Empathy, Surviving, Collective Reflexivity |
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9 Collective Action and the Reciprocity of Friendship |
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SECTION III Rethinking Collaborations |
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10 Sisterly Love: The Collaborative Art of Sisters |
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132 | (9) |
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12 Unsettling Action and Text: A Collaborative Experience |
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141 | (11) |
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13 The Politics of Collaboration: Robin Rhode and the Drowned Piano |
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14 Wedge: A Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration by Janine Antoni and Jill Sigman |
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15 Combination, Collaboration, and Creation: The Case of Jasper Johns |
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16 Gathering: Artistic Collaborations in Glass |
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Daniella Ramos Barroqueiro |
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List of Contributors |
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Index |
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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.