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Going the distance

By: Joanne Lee

Joanne Lee discusses the evolution of communication and collaboration strategies with Flasch – a group of artists working across northern European countries.

Flasch came together in Salzburg, Austria in 1998. A group of four artists – one each from Austria, England, Sweden and Scotland – they began to work together at the invitation of Austrian Elisabeth Wörndl. So Wörndl, Chloë Brown, Klara Kristalova and Mij Rothera found themselves wandering the extraordinary Christmas market in Salzburg, drinking coffee in the Flasch cafe and beginning the first of many conversations. Their first show, made when they knew relatively little about one another, had a coherence that was perhaps a little accidental but signified enough common preoccupations to promise something for the future.Initially there had been no specific plans to prolong the association, but connections had been made which remained important to each of the group even after they went their separate ways, back to families, life and art elsewhere. Deciding to continue whilst living at a distance from each other was not without logistical problems. In the early days communication was mainly carried out via snail mail with unwieldy parcels of writing, images, explanations and explorations of possible work – all the messy workings-out of art bundled up...

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