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With reference to the production of inter-disciplinary visual arts, Charlotte Frost indicates the types of activities involved, art forms which respond well to this style of collaboration and some of the difficulties experienced by production agencies in working in this way.
In March 2007 I attended an untitled collaborative performance by musician Christian Fennesz and film-maker Charles Atlas. It was a lavish production which, despite being the first VJing-style event I had ever attended, was very accessible to newcomers given its seamless combination of recognised talents and smooth audio and aesthetic. As well as inviting profuse applause for the performers, the compere also indicated that project producers, the art production agency/ organisation Forma, should share the limelight. When the performance was over I realised that not only had the hypnotic visuals on the expansive IMAX screen often made me forget that Fennesz and Atlas were actually there, literally weaving their work together in front of me, but recognising the nature of the input of a production organisation had also been beyond me. I wondered: what exactly was this line of arts ‘production’ work Forma were in? In the introduction to the 2007 Arts Council England and Jerwood Charitable Foundation publication The Producers: Alchemists of the Impossible, Kate Tyndall describes the role of the producer: “The job these people do involves an all-encompassing, interwoven...
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