Question:
Fran mentioned the difference between collaboration and collective. Collaboration is like some people who organize a group and doing a piece of work together, they share each other's ideas and give assist to the members. Once the project is finished and show to the public, people will recognized that the artwork is done by a whole group, which means that the authorship is not individual. However, collective is more like individuals who working with different projects in a same space or one studio, but the authorship of artworks still remain a personal names. Each person has their own work to do and basically their do not share ideas with other people .
Fran Allison once worked in a New Zealand jeweller group called "Weeds" with other three artists. Although the Weeds has gone, but I can still find some great jewellery productions from the Internet. It looks like the theme of these productions basically is plant, and it's easy to find some beautiful patterns on different jewellery. For Fran, Weeds is a group where she practised numerous experiments, got some experiences of doing collaboration project.
During the lecture, Fran introduced a series of collaborative and collective groups. I particularly like the group UNNATURAL, NATURALLY. This group is consisted by two artists called Lauren Simeoni and Melinda Young who are living different cites. "Melinda Young has a Master of Visual Arts from Sydney College of the Arts and is currently a full time teacher at Design Centre Enmore. Simeoni has a Bachelor of Arts (Gold and Silversmithing) from Canberra School of Art and undertook a Design Associateship at the JamFactory in
Adelaide."(http://www.jewelleryandobjects.org/news/)
I think this group is quite special. It's great that although they are living in different places, but they can still cooperate very effectively. Fran said they share materials together by sending package and if I was hearing it correctly, they also using the same schedule. And their artworks involved a wide range of elements. They make a lot of artificial plant foilages by using different materials. And in my opinion, one more feature that make UNNATURAL, NATURALLY's works different from other collective group is that this two artists have two very different life background, and they working between two cities. So, I think their works can reflect two different life background of this two artists as well.
1. Define collaboration and how it differs from a collective.
2. How have these terms influenced Fran's practice.
3. Give an example of collaborative art practice.
Fran Allison, a jeweller who introduced us some quite new terms in this week- collaboration and collective."In the last 10 years or so collaborative art practices have moved in to the mainstream of cultural production, and collaboration is now largely taken for granted as one of the numerous ways that artists can choose to operate. "(http://collabarts.org/) Actually, this is the second time that we get in touch with the term collaboration and the first time is with Dion. Interesting thing I find is, when we hear of the collaboration relate to art practice, the first things that usually come to our mind are some large projects, like Dion's public sculpture projects finished with other artists. And I didn't realise that jewellery design needs lot's of collaboration as well. In any case, collaboration has spilled over into many kinds of art practices.
2. How have these terms influenced Fran's practice.
3. Give an example of collaborative art practice.
Fran Allison, a jeweller who introduced us some quite new terms in this week- collaboration and collective."In the last 10 years or so collaborative art practices have moved in to the mainstream of cultural production, and collaboration is now largely taken for granted as one of the numerous ways that artists can choose to operate. "(http://collabarts.org/) Actually, this is the second time that we get in touch with the term collaboration and the first time is with Dion. Interesting thing I find is, when we hear of the collaboration relate to art practice, the first things that usually come to our mind are some large projects, like Dion's public sculpture projects finished with other artists. And I didn't realise that jewellery design needs lot's of collaboration as well. In any case, collaboration has spilled over into many kinds of art practices.
Fran mentioned the difference between collaboration and collective. Collaboration is like some people who organize a group and doing a piece of work together, they share each other's ideas and give assist to the members. Once the project is finished and show to the public, people will recognized that the artwork is done by a whole group, which means that the authorship is not individual. However, collective is more like individuals who working with different projects in a same space or one studio, but the authorship of artworks still remain a personal names. Each person has their own work to do and basically their do not share ideas with other people .
Fran Allison once worked in a New Zealand jeweller group called "Weeds" with other three artists. Although the Weeds has gone, but I can still find some great jewellery productions from the Internet. It looks like the theme of these productions basically is plant, and it's easy to find some beautiful patterns on different jewellery. For Fran, Weeds is a group where she practised numerous experiments, got some experiences of doing collaboration project. During the lecture, Fran introduced a series of collaborative and collective groups. I particularly like the group UNNATURAL, NATURALLY. This group is consisted by two artists called Lauren Simeoni and Melinda Young who are living different cites. "Melinda Young has a Master of Visual Arts from Sydney College of the Arts and is currently a full time teacher at Design Centre Enmore. Simeoni has a Bachelor of Arts (Gold and Silversmithing) from Canberra School of Art and undertook a Design Associateship at the JamFactory in
Adelaide."(http://www.jewelleryandobjects.org/news/) I think this group is quite special. It's great that although they are living in different places, but they can still cooperate very effectively. Fran said they share materials together by sending package and if I was hearing it correctly, they also using the same schedule. And their artworks involved a wide range of elements. They make a lot of artificial plant foilages by using different materials. And in my opinion, one more feature that make UNNATURAL, NATURALLY's works different from other collective group is that this two artists have two very different life background, and they working between two cities. So, I think their works can reflect two different life background of this two artists as well.
Thanks Chris,
ReplyDeleteA good response with some extra research. I would have liked you to find an example of a collaborative art practice that wasn't mentioned already by Fran or myself, but this is a good start.
TX