Collaborative Art in the Twenty-First Century [Hardcover]

Collaboration in the arts is no longer a conscious choice to make a deliberate artistic statement, but instead a necessity of artistic survival. In todays 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.

This book explores why collaboration has become so integrated into a greater understanding of creative artistic practice. It draws on an emerging generation of contributorsfrom the arts, art history, sociology, political science, and philosophyto engage directly with the diverse and interdisciplinary nature of collaborative practice of the future.

Introduction: The Work of Collaborative Art in the Age of TechnologySondra Bacharach  Part I: Collaboration in the Age of Technological Innovation  1. Pirate Film Societies: Rearranging Traditional Apparatus with Inappropriate Technology Gabriel Menotti  2. Digital Street Art Gemma Arg?ello and Sondra Bacharach 3.. Hybrid Modes of Collaborations in the Post-Socialist Context: The Socio-Politically Engaged Art Practices of Big Hope and Matei Bejenaru Izabel Galliera  4. Turkish Contemporary Art and the Emergent Off-Space Artist CollectivesTijen Tunali  Part II: Collaboration and the Identity Crisis  5. The Solitary Author as Collective Fiction Karen Gover  6. Collaboration's Gesture at the Impossible Tim Corballis   7. Technological Impacts on Musical Collaboration: Can The Postal Service Survive? &l³+