30 July � 31 August 2008 Exhibition Open: Mon � Fri 10 - 5, Sat � Sun 10 � 3* Closed Bank Holidays
What happens when 6 artists are asked to choose a to work with in new ways? Who will they choose? What will they want to make? How will the process work? Will these collaborations continue after the exhibition? Will they fail? Will this opportunity encourage the artists to collaborate in the future? How does the collaborative working process differ to their usual ways of working? What are the benefits or disadvantages of working collaboratively?
An Experiment in Collaboration looks at the intricacies of artists operating as part of a team or partnership, laying bare the process and opening it up to scrutiny. The ongoing project is collaborative on every level: curator, writers, design team, artists and associates, share ideas, negotiate changes and make decisions about possibilities and outcomes.
An Experiment in Collaboration forms part of the Jerwood Visual Arts series of exhibitions and initiatives to support and promote emerging talent. 6 artists were invited to choose a collaborator to work with and to submit proposals for an experimental project that looked at the process of collaborative practice including:
� Gemma Anderson + forensic psychiatrist Dr Tim McInery and three of his patients from Bethlem Hospital, London = a series of revealing portraits;
� Daniel Baker + computer game designer Ricky Haggett = a computer game of the artist�s fictional world of �Glob�;
� Michael Pybus + Dazed & Confused magazine = a series of fashion photographs set within Pybus� painting/sculptural installation;
� Paul Richards + artists: Jason Dungan, Jenifer Evans, Claire Hooper, Edward Peake, Guy Rusha & Gili Tal, Joe Walsh = an experimental film for cinema;
� Karen Tang + architect Daniel Sanderson = a Modernist building titled �Modern Molluscs�;
� Artist collaborators Jackson Webb + biophysicist Dora Tang = chemical drawings that challenges the role of the �author� within collaborative practice.
The exhibition will begin a conversation about collaborative working practice through a series of experiments and interconnected dialogues while allowing for each of the collaborators to explore a new way of working, drawing either on the other�s expertise, ideas, knowledge or experience. The process of each of these artist collaborations will be available to view in an online blog: www.experimentincollaboration.blogspot.com
Two discussions, open to the public, will take place during the exhibition: Monday 11 August and Thursday 21 August 6 - 8pm 2008. A catalogue, with foreword by Tamiko O�Brien and Mark Dunhill, designed by The Partners will accompany the exhibition. The catalogue will be launched on Thursday 21 August from 6 - 8pm.
Exhibition curated by Sarah Williams.
Collaborations:
Gemma Anderson is collaborating with Dr Tim McInerny of Bethlem Hospital London to create etched portraits of both psychiatrist and patients. The portraits are drawn from life collaging the individuals� personal history/diagnosis and medication to form an image. Referring to the history of psychiatric ideas the portraits deal with the humours and pseudoscientific beliefs from bygone eras. By visiting Bethlem hospital regularly, knowledge has been shared between the artist and doctor. The artist was granted permission to draw the patients within the hospital. The dialogue with the patient plays a key role as they help to form their own image.
Daniel Baker and Ricky Haggett are collaborating to produce a computer game based on Baker�s fictional world of �Glob�. Glob is a universe of anthropomorphic characters - tiny grey figures carrying red balloons, monkey-like creatures with long winding tails, flaming eyeballs, and giant disembodied heads that spew forth smoke and flying monsters. Across the debris-strewn, virtual spaces of Glob, these creatures and characters are engaged in battles, power struggles and ambiguous deeds. Within the game the player is encouraged to interact with, and direct, these tiny acts of poignant strangeness, in an ambivalent God-like role. At once confusing and entertaining, the game provides a rich landscape of interactions, a world that conforms to its own logic, in which minute changes can have massive repercussions. Heroes and villains are interchangeable, and tragicomic violence is commonplace.
A collaboration between Michael Pybus and Dazed & Confused magazine aims to explore the link between art and fashion through a direct collaboration. This involves the two worlds interacting together to produce a series of images which play with the idea of display, fetishization, and surface. Dazed & Confused have held a photo shoot with selected models set within an installation of sculptures, plinths and paintings by Michael Pybus. The Dazed and Confused team include: Photographer: Jenny Hueston, Stylist: Kim Howells, Hair: Amiee Robinson using Bumble and Bumble, Makeup: Hiromi Ueda using Dermalogica, Accessory designer: Fred Butler, Photographer assistant: Jamie Smith, Makeup assistant: Kaori Mitsuyasu, Models: Charlotte Pallister at Models 1 � Julien, Pilar at Select.
Paul Richards will be collaborating with artists: Jason Dungan, Jenifer Evans, Claire Hooper, Edward Peake, Guy Rusha & Gili Tal and Joe Walsh to produce an experimental film for cinema. Grounded in surrealist strategies of bricolage, coincidence and chance the film will de-centralise the control of the director-individual. It will be a film with no edge, no inside and no outside.
�Modern Molluscs� is a collaboration between artist Karen Tang and architect Daniel Sanderson which has grown out of their mutual appreciation of Modernist architecture and conversations about nautical experiences. Sanderson works on many scales within the built environment; Tang�s sculptural practice often investigates the rapid development of cities. Both are fascinated by marine life, particularly molluscs and deep sea animals. For the exhibition, they will collaborate to make a modernist structure loosely based on Le Corbusier�s rooftop building on Unit� d�Habitation. However, this iconic structure would be invaded and inhabited by fantasy molluscs and other imaginary marine creatures.
�Collaboration Stares Back� brings together Dora Tang, a biophysicist, and Jackson Webb, an artist collaboration between Mark Jackson and Charlotte Webb. This project acknowledges dialogue as a medium, and is characterised by a fluid series of exchanges and flows. The work has taken the form of a web-based forum, as well as a series of �Chemical Drawings� that were created by dropping mixtures of laser dye solutions onto paper. The resulting eye-like patterns are seen as self-propelled instances of pattern making, which are �un-authored� by any of the collaborators. The self-creating chemical drawings can be seen a metaphor for the collaborative process, in which authorship becomes outside of the individual and is propelled in a shared, reflexive space. Furthermore, the work raises epistemological questions about the relationship of knowledge to the visual, and the nature of research in Art and Science disciplines.
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