Collaborative Workings

Abstract

The project considers the exchange that takes place in artistic collaboration. This exchange comprises negotiations that are tacit, but nevertheless integral. The ongoing pandemic and the enforced dispersal of collaboration across sites and time zones has foregrounded the ways in which working together often takes place apart, while also expanding dialogue as performance. Practitioners from different disciplines––dance and architecture, we are particularly attuned to how the dynamics of collaboration create affective bonds, build trust, and can sometimes allow for a shared language of making. In performing this exchange, we hope to generate a larger discussion about the relationship between collaboration and immaterial labor. How does this work get divvied up, acknowledged and recognized considering the different situations, subjectivities and experiences comprised within any exchange?