Cannibalising Collaboration in Fine Art as Research: The Subjectivity & Feminisms Performance Dinners

Book chapter on the topic of collaboration in relation to the Subjectivity and Feminisms Performance Dinners project at Chelsea College of Arts and relational aesthetics. The chapter uses J. Derrida's and L. Irigaray's theories of friendship.

About this book:

Recognition of collaboration and interdependencies between artists forms the core of this book. It posits the `social' notion of art practice and attempts to challenge the idea of the artist engaged in a `singular' dialogue. Mutual Dependencies is neither exactly an artists' book nor just academic research, it places itself firmly within fine art discourse at a time when re-examination of what this might mean is taking place: for example courses at Goldsmiths' in Art Writing, Camberwell in Book Arts, Poetic Practice at Royal Holloway, and the Whitechapel Art Gallery's Writers Residency. These pages include drawings, recollections, photographs and diagrams, writings, ruminations and tentative articulations; taken as a whole, it engages with overlaps between score, script, performance, concept and drawing.

Includes works and texts by Jeremy Akerman, Angela Bartman, Diann Bauer, Jon Bird, Sonia Boyce, Nicky Coutts, Gefn Press, Sigrid Holmwood, Susan Johanknecht, Katharine Meynell, Jim Mooney, Virginia Nimarkoh, Kit Poulson, Maria Walsh, H.F. Westley-Smith, Gary Stevens, Will Stone