Collaborative Art in the Twenty-First Century

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Collaboration in the arts is no longer a conscious choice to make a deliberate artistic statement, but instead a necessity of artistic survival. In today’s 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 contributors―from the arts, art history, sociology, political science, and philosophy―to engage directly with the diverse and interdisciplinary nature of collaborative practice of the future. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Table and Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Collaborative Art in the Twenty-First Century SECTION I: Collaboration in the Age of Technological Innovation 1 Pirate Film Societies: Rearranging Traditional Apparatus with Inappropriate Technology 2 Digital Street Art 3 Hybrid Modes of Collaborations in the Post-Socialist Context: The Socio-Politically Engaged Art Practices of Big Hope and Matei Bejenaru 4 Turkish Contemporary Art and the Emergent Off-Space Artist Collectives SECTION II: Collaboration and the Identity Crisis 5 The Solitary Author as Collective Fiction 6 Collaboration's Gesture at the Impossible 7 Technological Impacts on Musical Collaboration: Can the Postal Service Survive? 8 Empathy, Surviving, Collective Reflexivity 9 Collective Action and the Reciprocity of Friendship SECTION III: Rethinking Collaborations 10 Sisterly Love: The Collaborative Art of Sisters 11 Future Calls the dawn 12 Unsettling Action and Text: A Collaborative Experience 13 The Politics of Collaboration: Robin Rhode and the Drowned Piano 14 Wedge: A Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration by Janine Antoni and Jill Sigman 15 Combination, Collaboration, and Creation: The Case of Jasper Johns 16 Gathering: Artistic Collaborations in Glass List of Contributors Index