Collaborative Art in the Twenty-First Century

<p>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. <br> <br>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.</p> <p>Introduction<i>: </i>The Work of Collaborative Art in the Age of Technology<i> Sondra Bacharach </i><b>Part I: Collaboration in the Age of Technological Innovation </b>1. Pirate Film Societies: Rearranging Traditional Apparatus with Inappropriate Technology<em> Gabriel Menotti </em>2. Digital Street Art <em>Gemma Argüello and Sondra Bacharach </em>3.. Hybrid Modes of Collaborations in the Post-Socialist Context: The Socio-Politically Engaged Art Practices of Big Hope and Matei Bejenaru <i>Izabel Galliera 4</i>. Turkish Contemporary Art and the Emergent Off-Space Artist Collectives<i> Tijen Tunali </i> <strong>Part II: Collaboration and the Identity Crisis </strong>5. The Solitary Author as Collective Fiction<em> Karen Gover </em>6. Collaboration's Gesture at the Impossible<i> Tim Corballis </i> 7. Technological Impacts on Musical Collaboration: Can The Postal Service Survive? <em>Henry Pratt </em>8. Empathy, surviving, collective reflexivity<i> Legwork (Tobey Albright, Timothy Murray, Egle Obcarskaite) 9. </i>Collective Action and the Reciprocity of Friendship<i> Katerina Reed-Tsocha </i><b>Part III: Rethinking Collaborations </b>10. Sisterly Love: The Collaborative Art of Sisters<em> Louise Mayhew </em>11. Future Calls The Dawn<em> </em>J<em>enny Gillam and Eugene Hansen </em>12. Unsettling Action and Text: A Collaborative Experience <em>Bartram O'Neill </em>13 The Politics of Collaboration: Robin Rhode & The Drowned Piano<em> Leora Maltz-Leca </em>14.Wedge: A Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration by Janine Antoni and Jill Sigman<i> Sherri Irvin</i> 15. Combination,Collaboration and Creation: The Case of Jasper Johns<i> Peter Murphy </i>16. Gathering: Artistic Collaborations in Glass<i> Daniella Barroqueiro </i></p>