How Do Artists Work (Other Than Solo)? Towards a Unified Theory of Collaboration
In this session, we are going to examine some of the most common non-solo forms of artistic collaboration (the duo, the couple, the trio, the quartet, the group, the imaginary group, the network, the movement, the factory, the office, the corporation, the brand) and a number of non-artist roles that non-solo artists tend to assume in collaborative environments (the curator, the barkeeper, the editor, the designer, the technician, the programmer, the producer, the host).
Can we make out - through anecdotical evidence and art works that, hopefully, reflect the heterogeneity of contemporary artistic practice - if some of these configurations have specific advantages over others, and, if so, what factors contribute to that? Can we think of completely different types of artistic collaboration that are either not well understood or entirely overlooked? Can neighboring fields - like literature or music - provide concepts that are useful to better understand how artists can or cannot work? And can we find patterns of what works and what doesn't that remain more or less stable throughout the history of art, and unaffected by the inevitable cycles of artistic fashion?
You can join the lecture on 22.6. at 18h here: https://www.twitch.tv/salondigital
We are sorry to announce, but due to health reasons, the lecture has to be cancelled.
We will try to organize another date.
We will inform you about the planned workshop soon.
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Materials:
Linda Bilda, Ariane Müller, Über Zusammenarbeit (Zu zweit nach vorn), 1995,
https://0xdb.org/0xCC652D59F9B0A616/player
Jean-Luc Godard, Introduction to a True History of Cinema and Television,
Toronto 2009
Jan Gerber, Sebastian Lütgert, The Zen of Pad.ma, 2020,
https://pad.ma/documents/AHQ
Claire Fontaine, The Human Strike, New York 2020
Caption:
NW: Starship Magazine #5, Zwei sind zu wenig, 2002
NE: Daniel Spoerri, Restaurant Spoerri Tisch (ohne Tischdecke), 2004
SW: Bootlab, Berlin, 2006
SE: Pad.ma Launch, Bombay, 2008
biography
Sebastian Lütgert is an artist, programmer, writer, co-founder of Bootlab and Pirate Cinema Berlin. He has co-initiated a number of projects on intellectual property, cinema and the internet, including textz.com (2001), the cinema archive 0xdb.org, The Oil of the 21st Century project, Pad.ma, Indiancine.ma, bak.ma, 858.ma, and the open media archive pan.do/ra. He lives in Berlin.