EIGHT CONTINENTS IN COLLABORATION/OSEM KONTINENTOV V SODELOVANJU

Galerija Media Nox, Maribor, Slovenia

 

2011 AGW Biennial, September 21 – December 31, 2011, Windsor, Canada

Into the storm, it’s a time of great expectations (detail)

EIGHT CONTINENTS IN COLLABORATION: Exhibition Opening

~Come participate, draw, exchange, cut, dialogue, collage, collaborate~

EIGHT CONTINENTS IN COLLABORATION
The Economist Series
Mira Burack and Narine Kchikian
in collaboration with the community

March 25 – April 30, 2011 · Reception March 25th, 6-8 p.m.
Center Galleries, Alumni & Faculty Hall, College for Creative Studies, 301 Frederick Douglass Street, Detroit, MI 48202, 313.664.7800
www.theeconomistseries.wordpress.com

More on collaboration…Oliver Herring in an Art21/PBS interview with Laurie Simmons

It’s been a while since I’ve posted, however, we’re still thinking about collaboration and the possibilities. Interesting interview with Oliver Herring (one of my favorite artists) and Laurie Simmons that touches on the relationship between performance and collaboration: http://video.pbs.org/video/1534158225/

The Inclination to Collaborate

What in our personal history has mediated our interest in collaboration? Before discussing an actual collaboration and the results of the collaboration, it would be interesting to discuss what created the inclination to collaborate in the first place?

Some beginning thoughts:

The desire to:

• recreate an intimate family/community that shares our ideals
• resist the isolation of the historical studio practice
• learn from another – share ideas, processes and resources
• relinquish some control and create a context where multiple organisms are responding to each other

What about your inclination to collaborate?

Dialogue!

To coincide with The Economist Series exhibition at UICA, www.uica.org, we would like to engage a broader conversation about collaboration, in art and beyond.  It seems that how we collaborate, might shed some interesting commentary on the economics of our lives. We will be posting topics of discussion weekly. We look forward to hearing your thoughts!

col·lab·o·rate
1. To work together, especially in a joint intellectual effort.
2. To cooperate treasonably, as with an enemy occupation force in one’s country.

Origin: [1870-1875 - Late Latin collabrre, collabrt- : Latin com-, com- + Latin labrre, to work (from labor, toil).]

e·con·o·my
1. The ways in which people use their environment to meet their material needs.
2. The management of the resources of a community, country, etc., esp. with a view to its productivity.

Origin: [1520–30; (< MF economie) < L oeconomia < Gk oikonomíā household management, equiv. to oîko(s) house + -nomia -nomy ]

Source: www.dictionary.com

Exhibition Opens!

An exhibition of The Economist Series opens Friday, December 11, 2009 from 6-9 p.m. at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (UICA), www.uica.org. We look forward to you sharing your thoughts on the work! We will be blogging over the course of the exhibition, through January 22, 2010.

Welcome!