STOP, COLLABORATE, AND LISTEN…
posted by: Nathan Stevens 02nd August 2009
Will it ever stop...yo...I don't know
Today the 'Splendid Ten' convened to discuss the provocation of the past two weeks and round-table the upcoming "itch" project presentations (itch= pitch without the p). An opportunity for the artists to present intitial project proposals for the Splendour in Grass festival 2010 to the partners, producers, and provocateurs, the idea is that the 'itch' can facilitate constructive feedback on collaborative processes and also allows the group a forum to visualize and verbalise some artistic outcomes for Splendour. Beyond orchestrating the 'itch', the group discussed the development of different processes involved in collaboration and how the Splendid collaborative model was being constructed.
This four hour round-table allowed the group the opportunity to articulate their collective voice, consider their collaborative model, and begin to approach the outcomes of the past two weeks. As the talking stick was passed along and each artist presented their ideas and intentions for the festival, some common themes emerged. While each artist brought to the table their own creative practice and artistic visualisation for the festival, ideas seemed to cross-polinate. Projected outcomes of individual projects were dissolved into processes and collectively evaluated.
The outcomes of the lab and the project's forms take on the quality of the process. The viral nature of working together, examining the marginal areas of each others project generation, the infectious character of the collaborative process was setting the foundation for a genesis of a negotiated form, or a cross-process of how each artist approached their own creative practice as dancers, performers, artists, architects, and designers. Here the concept of cross-art form begins to develop, by cris-crossing artistic paths and visions. At some point each path intersects and this instance suggests a process and form. What the form is... it's too early to see it, or perhaps we are too close to it, or inside it, and it is not until some distance is gained that this form comes into focus.
It is apparent that some lasting bonds between diverse artistic languages and identities became verbalised into the generation of a working process, a collaborative process.
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