Today we had a rather interesting lecture from Fran Allison. Interesting you say?? Well I at least thought so. Not only did I find her jewellery work really beautiful and refreshing but I also found that the way she works is interesting as well. Fran likes to explore different material, re configure pre existing material, and experiments. Fran sees her work as 'uncomfortably seductive'. Fran talked extensively on the idea of collaborating with other artists. Collaborative art means to work jointly, especially in a literary artistic production. I find the idea of collaborative art really intresting. I found it interesting how one can be in a group or collaboration, do their own work and in the end come together as a group and deal with concerns
and ideas.
I believe that collaborating with a fellow artist or group of artists is indeed a fantastic idea. Maybe for myself right now in my art school years isn't the right time. But certainly in the future I would like to. I see a certain strength and unity between artists and their work when they collaborate. There is indeed a strength in collaboration because well, obviously two heads are better than one. The art work will also have a tendancy to develop and re evolve into something better or even into something worse. Artistic collaboration also puts forth some questions about the 'nature of authorship, authenticity and the artists' relationships to their work and audience'.[http://www.collabarts.org/] Some artists work collaboratively in a positive way, while some choose to collaborate and deal with such issues agains politics and cultural regimes.
A great example of a good collaboration was between the two artists Picasso and Baraque. Picasso described his and Braques relationship and collaboration as 'We were like two mountain climbers roped together'. [http://www.augustana.ualberta.ca/files/group/3029/20Cbraque2009.pdf] I also strongly believe that collaboration not only strengthens group work and interaction greatly, but it is also an intimate and precious gift to work with someone with the same thoughts and ideas. Putting your head together with one a person similar to yourself can certainly create a really strong body of work. Not only can collaboration do that, but it can also [and I strongly stand by this] develop and enhance one's own individual practice.
and ideas.
I believe that collaborating with a fellow artist or group of artists is indeed a fantastic idea. Maybe for myself right now in my art school years isn't the right time. But certainly in the future I would like to. I see a certain strength and unity between artists and their work when they collaborate. There is indeed a strength in collaboration because well, obviously two heads are better than one. The art work will also have a tendancy to develop and re evolve into something better or even into something worse. Artistic collaboration also puts forth some questions about the 'nature of authorship, authenticity and the artists' relationships to their work and audience'.[http://www.collabarts.org/] Some artists work collaboratively in a positive way, while some choose to collaborate and deal with such issues agains politics and cultural regimes.
A great example of a good collaboration was between the two artists Picasso and Baraque. Picasso described his and Braques relationship and collaboration as 'We were like two mountain climbers roped together'. [http://www.augustana.ualberta.ca/files/group/3029/20Cbraque2009.pdf] I also strongly believe that collaboration not only strengthens group work and interaction greatly, but it is also an intimate and precious gift to work with someone with the same thoughts and ideas. Putting your head together with one a person similar to yourself can certainly create a really strong body of work. Not only can collaboration do that, but it can also [and I strongly stand by this] develop and enhance one's own individual practice.
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