This may be just a shameless plug, but I think it also has relevance for our course. In another cultural studies class a group of mine (including a couple of our KS400 classmates) are working on an event at the KW Art Gallery.
The event is a pre-screening of a film by Althea Thauberger called Not Afraid to Die. Althea creates her films in collaboration with members of various communities including students, members of the military and song writers/singers. Her goal in collaboration is to give these people a voice where they may not have had one before.
In the film we are pre-screening, Althea works with a student of hers, filming at the Royal B.C. Museum in Victoria. Althea sings the soundtrack to the film herself. The song can be considered a kind of mash-up of two different songs, one of which is a miners folk song, the other is a song the artist had stuck in her head while making the film.
The artist does not prescribe meanings to her work. Her method is more to release the work to the public, and allow the audience to take from it the meaning that they choose. This is what our event is about. Our goal at the event is to gather responses from the audience on what their thoughts and interpretations are on the piece. We will gather written, video, and audio responses, which will be displayed with the work when it is exhibited at the gallery at the end of March.
If you are interested in the event, here is some more information
http://free-admission.com/2011/03/04/feedback-loop/
The Event is taking place this Thursday March 10th from 7-9 pm at the KW Art Gallery (Located in The Center in the Square)
ALSO!
ReplyDeleteHere is another example of how collaboration is used to create art (or science?)
http://news.discovery.com/earth/coral-crochet-110306.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1
"The crochet coral reef has been exhibited in venues as disparate as Dublin and Arizona and points in between. And wherever it - or, at least, portions of it - go, it is now joined by crocheted coral created locally in anticipation of its arrival. Currently, it is on display among other marine exhibits in the Ocean Hall at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Here, some 4,000 individual items from 800 contributors -- collected over a period of five months and then pieced together, one at a time, by museum staff and approximately 100 volunteers -- have joined the traveling display, forming one big reef structure."