Collaborative Piece
Assignment:
Make a piece of art with someone or a group of people
Ideas:
Make a piece of art with someone without them knowing
Make a piece of art with an animal
Pass a painting/drawing back and forth with someone
Collaboration in art refers to the act of two or more individuals working together to create, conceptualize, or execute a piece of artwork. It's a symbiotic process where diverse talents, skills, and viewpoints converge to form a singular artistic vision. Collaboration pushes boundaries, enabling artists to venture outside their individual comfort zones and explore techniques, concepts, and mediums they might not have tackled alone. This joint effort often leads to innovative and unexpected results, enriching the art world with fresh perspectives. More than just the physical act of creating, collaboration emphasizes the importance of dialogue, trust, and mutual respect. It teaches artists the value of compromise and the beauty of shared achievements. In an ever-evolving global art landscape, collaboration underscores the idea that through combined efforts, we can achieve greater artistic heights than we might on our own.
ARTIST Examples:
LENKA CLAYTON
Two Itinerant Quilters
2015 / collaboration with Joe Wright / performance, repaired clothing, patchwork quilt / photos: Joe Wright, Adam Milner, Lenka Clayton
A hand-sewn patchwork quilt, created from fabric diamonds cut from the clothing of hundreds of passing strangers.
Over the course of a public event, or in a public space, diamond-shaped pieces for a patchwork quilt are collected from fabric voluntarily cut from the clothing of passers-by. The resulting holes are hand-repaired then and there with contrasting fabrics, creating a visible missing patch in each participants clothing. The collected diamonds are hand-sewn together using a traditional paper-piecing method into a traditional pattern known as the “Tumbling Block”. The quilt grows as the piece is re-performed in various environments around the globe.
Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen
Leaning Fork with Meatball and Spaghetti II, 1994
Fiberglass painted with polyurethan
131 1/2 × 51 1/2 × 39 in | 334 × 130.8 × 99.1 cm
Oldenburg’s large, soft sculptures of household items and diner foods changed the course of Pop Art in the 1960s, but it wasn’t until he began collaborating with van Bruggen, in the mid-’70s, that his work took on a monumental scale. Together, Oldenburg and van Bruggen conceived towering public sculptures—15-foot-tall shuttlecocks or a 51-foot-long spoon tipped with a glistening cherry, for instance—that drew on Oldenburg’s penchant for injecting everyday objects with elements of absurdity.
Douglas Paulson and Christopher Robbins
1. Pick a friend, and calculate the exact geographic midpoint between where the two of you live.
You can use http://www.geomidpoint.com/ or other websites to calculate your midpoint, or even-gasp-use a paper map.
2. Decide on a date and a time to meet there, and don't communicate until then.
3. Document your experience. You can do this however you'd like, using photos, video, text, drawings, or anything else.
4. Upload your documentation and share it online using whatever social media platforms you prefer, being sure to tag it with #theartassignment so we can find it. Your response to the assignment may be included in a future episode!
STUDENT EXAMPLES:
Oaklyn & Dominique
Aspen E