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Collaboration three has been designated.
There will be time before our new group of 4 will be available to meet. Time to reflect on the first two collaborations. And time to read Kester’s The One and the Many, Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context.
Duke University Press’ description of the book follows:
“He describes a shift from a concept of art as something envisioned beforehand by the artist and placed before the viewer, to the concept of art as a process of reciprocal creative labor. The One and the Many presents a critical framework that addresses the new forms of agency and identity mobilized by the process of collaborative production.”
Reciprocal creative labor. Is it evident in the work we’ve been producing and sharing?
The most successful collaboration in my mind, so far, is Campbell and Berry’s duet of voices and the extraordinarily large text piece. The aesthetic of both is a recombination, a merge, an entity that shows no sign of compliance, but of real collaboration. Product has been de-emphasised for the experience of “reciprocal creative labor.”
