Heather and Ivan
website of Heather and Ivan Morrison
IDC
website of the research group Institute of Distributed Creativity which focuses on collaboration in media art, technology and theory with an emphasis on social contexts
Turner Prize
Turner Prize archive including information on Gilbert and George, Jane and Louise Wilson, Langlands and Bell and Jake and Dinos Chapman
Third Text
PDFs of the articles from Third Text issue on Art and Collaboration, Vol 18. Issue 6, 2004 (available after registering)
afterimage 2
essay Counting on your Collective Silence: Notes on Activist Art as Collaborative Practice by Gregory G Sholette
collective creativity
article on Collective Creativity: Common Ideas for Life and Politics at the Kunsthalle Friedericianum
Institute of Distributed Creativity
PDF of papers from an Institute of Distributed Creativity conference considering collaboration and co-operation
Guerilla Girls 2
essay on Guerilla Girls from the Women and Social Movements in the United States website
Afterimage issue on collaboration
Articles from the November 1999 issue of Afterimage issue on collaborative art practice
Brian Holmes
essay by Brian Holmes, Revenge of the Concept; Artistic Exchanges, Networked Resistance
rivets and denizens
information about Rivets and Denizens an investigation and case study of collaborative strategies explored by artists and curators
Double Agents
website of Double Agents project based at Central St Martins founded by Tallentire and Ellard
DINA
DINA, 5 artists from across Europe who ‘join forces to organize public events and extreme and controversial forms of ‘radical entertainment’
Erased de Kooning
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art website featuring Robert Rauschenberg’s, 1953 Erased De Kooning Drawing
Bob and Roberta Smith
Official website of Patrick Brill’s brother and sister collaborative duo Bob and Roberta Smith
Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky
Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky, an archive of projects by the artists – some collaborative, some not
Co-operating Then and Now
An essay commissioned by www.collabarts.org
In 1996, in the middle of the boom in new British art (just after ‘Brilliant!’ at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, but before ‘Sensation’ at the Royal Academy) the curator of the Southampton City Art Gallery, Godfrey Worsdale, felt that the time was right to put together an exhibition called […]
Production Lines
The History of Modernism is, it would seem, inscribed with collaboration and collectivity. The succession of international, interlinked avant-garde movements which make up the historical and mythical trajectory of modernist art is founded in a perception of artists coming together with a mutual and coherent project in mind. The very notion of artistic movements bearing a collective label intimates the noble abandonment of individual identity in the name of forging an heroic artistic ‘breakthrough’ which is greater than the sum of its individual artistic parts.
Team Spirit
Most forms of art-theater, film, dance, architecture, music-are inherently collaborative. With rare exceptions, all involve the participation of more than one individual. Only those forms of art-such as literature, painting, sculpture, and musical composition-that we think of when we speak of the author, artist, or composer are generally taken to be the work of one extraordinary human being. But in fact, this was not always so. The concept of the isolated genius emerged in the Renaissance along with capitalism and, while most writing or musical composition seems indeed to be a solitary endeavor, every mode or style of visual art can be made collaboratively.