This blog post is about collaboration. Here is a video of an art work. As someone who makes community based site specific dance work I see this as art. It could also be an tourist marketing product!!
Have a look at this and then watch the video below that about collaboration. I am suggesting this because it is a way of revealing how the material (the professional artifact of the art work/first video) is another way of engaging with the theory (in the second video). Often the artistry we do is the embodiment of the theory talked about.
Letting go of dominating and welcoming making together...Learning to learning involves collaboration and interdependency.
Part of the principles of BAPP are networks and collaboration. (These are ideas that carry across the whole course.)
In this course part of the idea of networks involves collaboration. But this is also a larger shift in thinking in terms of how we construct what interaction in society should look like or how we construct our Western history.
Darwin offered a world of survival of the fittestwhich mirrored the Regency and Victorian period of empire building of his lifetime. What if we let go of the *metaphor of fighting that we use in so many descriptions of ideas and replaced it with collaboration.
Below Howard Rheingold explores how we can readjust to see history (and present day) from a metaphor of 'working together'rather than 'survival of the fittest'. I think this is really important because art is often involved in activism that brings people together through making together.
Working in a show or part of a cast also rely on cooperation, so as artists we are very familiar with the idea in our professional work but how can we learn from those professional situations of collaboration? How is collaboration a part of your practice? What ethical considerations does the principle of collaboration raise in a creative process?
To push this idea further: The idea of cooperation is explored in many artists’ processes. Art activism often uses the idea of making something together as a way to value and highlight community. I feel collaboration has a part in the map of an artists practice. Where is collaboration in your practice, in your inquiry, in your field of work?
Does your experience in the network of the BAPP learning community mirror experiences in your professional practice? Are you bringing assumptions about working togetherfrom BAPP to your Practice or the other way around?
Here is a video talk about collaboration and the work of a poet who uses collaboration as part of process. If you asked yourself how to collaborate each time you started a creative process or entered a teaching situation, what interesting ethical considerations does it raise - different for each situation I would think. In this way collaboration could be seen as a principle for learning not just an organising tool.
In Module One we introduce
ideas about ‘networks’, the ‘networked professional’ and cooperation. There is
a discussion on Game theory, particularly the ‘prisoners Dilemma’.
The idea of cooperation is explored in many artists
processes. Art activism often uses the idea of making something together as a
way to value and highlight community. I feel collaboration has a part in the
map of an artists practice. Where is collaboration in your practice, in your
inquiry, in your field of work?
Here is a video talk
about collaboration and the work of a poet who uses collaboration as part of
process. If you asked yourself how to collaborate each time you started a creative process what interesting ethical considerations does it raise - different for each situation I would think. In this way collaboration could be seen as a principle for learning not just an organising tool.
Campus Session October 27th. The session starts at 9am to noon.…it’s in-person
at the Middlesex University Campus, Hendon. This session will be a chance to
discuss your module, the whole course as well as meet other BAPP students. It will be held in Committee Room 2 in the
Town Hall. If you are not sure where to go, go to the main Reception in College
and they will direct you.
Please comment below to let
me know if you are coming.
I (Adesola) will be initiating the call so I need to be
connected to you in skype before hand. Please send a request that states you
are in BAPP and your name (not just your skype name). If I just get the
standard one I might not be able to recognize who you are and I will not accept
it.
We will be talking about how you have started in terms of
the inquiry and how you transitioned from the feedback you got from Module Two
to getting going on Module Three.
We will also be talking about consent forms and planning now
you are actively out their inquiring!!!
Lastly we will talk about how you are capturing the/your
process in Module Three.
Please come to the session with some ideas and things to contribute.
Please comment below if you are going to attend the session.
