net cement

so, now it seems we are not,
what do we do with what we did when we were?
shall we leave this blog meandering up as space trash to free float amongst the web-o-sphere?

'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?

...

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/

article of interest and interesting

i just read this really interesting article by art historian/visual culture/academic Irit Rogoff. here's the link:

http://www.kein.org/node/62

it is quite long but i reccommend persevering - it made me full of verve and vigour for TAC activities.

basically, Rogoff is writing as an advocate for what has now become known as 'Visual Culture', an academic discipline which has splintered away from Art History. well, she is kind of an advocate for it but recognises the term as mainly for convenience. Rogoff about the disintergration of distinctions between artist/theorists/critics/curators/audience - which is a way in which I often see TAC functioning - and for "a field of complex and growing entanglements that can never be transliated back to originary or constitutive components."

it's worth a read it you have time. i'd be interested to know what you think.

Collaborative Commons website

This is a website developed by a staff member of the Victoria College of Arts for their school-wide paper called Collaborative Contract. It mostly contains brief project descriptions and conversations about arranging meetings between students but it is open for anyone to utilise.

Not the prettiest site on the net but hilarious reading because of how familiar all the conversations about collaborating are. I have linked below to the groups section but you can browse around and see more.



http://cfi.vca.unimelb.edu.au/research/og

Meeting minutes 24/4/08

From memory:

Lets get the Clubs exchange project moving. Tom and Liz (and now Paula too) are in Melbourne in May so lets hook up with Andie and have a meeting and then go talk to Clubs.

Liz to email Enjoy and investigate support options, Tom to email Andie and suss out who to contact (is that right? or was it Mel - i have forgotten).

Conversation as to the possibilities of project revolved around a poster idea, in keeping with resource form and providing a description of the transition from individual to group mentality.

100 posts!

I want one of these!!
That last post brought our tally up to 100 and what with a wellington association meeting planned for later this week I thought a celebration was in order. Here's an image I came across on the web which tickled my collaborative imagining fancy. It's the work of a Melbourne based collab. duo by the name of A Constructed World and the image caption runs as:
Greenwashing. Environment: Perils, Promises and Perplexities, Foundation Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Turin