Saturday, November 29, 2008

'1 Week Decisions' Revisited

Excavating some interesting ideas from the blog (circa 2007) we (Borrelle & Tjhia) stumbled across the '1 Week Decision' thread. Like to ask: Can we request a brief tutorial on this process, on its inception, relevance and also the successes/failures of OWD as a possible engine for action: a sort of an historical reenactment so to speak. Perhaps a concept that appealed given the ambling nature of inter-island/continental communication...

Any one up for such an activity?

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Thursday, November 27, 2008

TAC as we understand it on November 27th, 2008

THE Association of Collaboration (TAC) are a group of artists, writers, curators, musicians and interested people from Australia and New Zealand who converse under the auspices of a joint project to test collaborative frameworks and methods of communication.

TAC formed originally in 2006. Original members met after an open call from artist Liz Allan for people who were interested in discussing the nature of collaboration. These early meetings were in conjunction with the show Every Now & Then at Enjoy Public Art Gallery. Following this, TAC went on to put together the Contemporary Art Mobile Response Unit, an educative and participatory trolley, for Telecom Prospect 2007 at the Wellington City Gallery.

After this initial burst of activity, members of TAC splintered away from their base in Wellington, to Melbourne, New Plymouth and Christchurch. Geographical distance has demanded new methods of communication, interaction and collaboration. Members have left and new ones have joined. TAC continues in its many amorphous and unlikely forms to posit new projects, leaving an email trail of discussion in its wake.

Current Members: Liz Allan, Andrea Bell, Jessie Borrelle, Melanie Oliver, Thomasin Sleigh and Jon Tjhia

The A of C: a Low Down

The Association of Collaboration (T.A.C)
Selected CV
association.collaboration@gmail.com


Exhibitions

2007 Two fold, curated by Angela Bailey & Andrea Bell, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne

2007 Telecom Prospect 2007: New New Zealand Art, curated by Heather Gailbraith, City Gallery Wellington, NZ

2006 Every Now & Then, curated by Melanie Oliver, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington, NZ

Publications

2008 Bacharach, Sondra; & Tollefsen, Deborah, ‘From Co-Authorship to Group Authorship’ Paper (Victoria University, Wellington, NZ) and (University of Memphis, TN)

2007 Brown, Amy, ‘Review: Hue and Cry Journal,’ The Lumiere Reader,
27 November 2007, see: http://www.lumiere.net.nz/reader/item/1411

2007 Borrelle, Jessica, ‘Together is the new alone: the necessity of collaboration’, Two-fold exhibition catalogue, George Paton Gallery

2007 O’Neill, Rachel ‘Attention Artword/Audience’, NZ Live.com, 27 April 2007, see: http://www.nzlive.com/blog/2007/04/27/attention-art-world-audience/

2007 Bell, Andrea, ‘The Association of Collaboration’ (Discussion Transcript) Hue and Cry, Issue 1

2007 Amery, Mark, ‘An Embarrasment of Riches’, The Dominion Post, Friday 2 March 2007, see http://lumiere.net.nz/reader/arts.php/item/861

2007 Grieves, Harold & Montgomery, Kate, ‘Yeah Totally: Harold Grieves & Kate Montgomery talk selectively about the art on show at Prospect 2007’ Telecom Prospect Exhibition Catalogue, pp.35-42

2007 Hurrell, John, ‘Fight Club’, Telecom Prospect Exhibition Catalogue, pp.29-34

2007 Gailbraith, Heather, ‘Prospect 2007: A Rendezvous’, Telecom Prospect Exhibition Catalogue, pp.11-28

2006 Amery, Mark, ‘Limited amount to relate to’ The Dominion Post, December 8 2006

Websites

http://www.telecomprospect2007.org.nz/artist/TheAssociationofCollaboration.shtml

http://www.theassociationofcollaboration.blogspot.com/