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BIO

Collaboration is the answer but what is the question? 1
The Association of Collaboration (TAC) is an art project currently consisting of seven participants who meet on a regular basis to practice and critically discuss collaborative processes and frameworks. Current members were initially recruited through an artwork established by an open call for involvement. A number of these participants recombined to begin TAC’s ongoing collaborative experiment through the forum of Every Now and Then, a show designed to investigate relational practices at artist-run initiative Enjoy in late 2006.

Challenging the potential of a ‘creative democracy’, the Association seeks to develop their skills with regards to the collaborative process and consensus-based 2 decision making.

The Association of Collaboration is an ongoing experimentation that attempts to distill and explain collaborative models for others to make use of. To find out more about our processes you could visit http://www.theassociationofcollaboration.blogspot.com

1 Hans Ulrich Obrist, Cited in Hal Foster, ‘Chat Rooms’ (2004)
2 “Consensus involves the complete exploration of a particular situation with the recognition that there are going to be conflicting points of view, and that it is important that these come into the open during this process. These differences are not resolved just because a decision is reached. Individuals who are not in agreement with the “majority” perspective do not just give up their differences and comply with the majority […] It mean[s] that everyone has been involved in the process, and that every one agrees to test a particular outcome for its workability.”



Blurb on Work

Do you avoid asking questions about contemporary art for fear of seeming ignorant? Are you choked up and jittery when asked for feedback from an artist? Do you avoid eye contact with gallery hosts?

TAC helps you to help yourself.

Contemporary Art Mobile Response Unit oranges up a rally cry for the audience to join TAC and the trolley volunteers in the common cause of enriching our collective Prospect art experiences.

The Unit aims to provide an open, interactive alternative to the curatorial voice. The work’s primary function is an attempted intervention in the gulf between art and its audiences, a complication and analysis of **** roles. With participation and critique at its core, it offers a forum for animated conversation, provoking interrogation of meaning and response.

By providing interpretive models that are suggestive rather than prescriptive, The Association of Collaboration (TAC) has designed ’Mobile Response Unit to encourage visitors, providing thinking tools and opening the passage of communication around contemporary art. The unit establishes an opportunity to share a critical response, to clarify and challenge.

’Mobile Response Unit is an expression of a stage in the journey TAC is making to explore useful and operational models of collaboration. The trolley is the first product of TAC’s collective process, hopefully building an auxiliary curatorial voice and challenging notions of individual authorship. Audience participation (input) will widen the scope of the collaboration.

YOU, the public as a potential collaborator…
Join in and make this a zesty collaborative experience!
Perhaps prompted by our festive flow charts? Or by adding thoughts you’d like to share…
Do you like a work just because it’s blue/tiny/shiny…?
Does it make you happy/sad/angry…?
Sharing is caring :-)

Love, The Association.