Artistic Bedfellows

Holly Crawford, (Ph.D.), is an artist and art historian. She is the Director of AC Institute, a nonprofit organization for research in contemporary art.

• Chapter 1 1. The Decoration of the Paris Panthéon by Paul Chenavard—A Particular Brotherhood Chapter 2 2. The Calling of Two Creatures: Depression-era Collaboration and a Theory of Camera and Pen Chapter 3 3. Creative Occupation: Collaborative Artistic Practices in Europe 1937-1943 Chapter 4 4. Collaborative Practices in Environmental Art Chapter 5 5. Concepts of Collaborative Art in the Divided Germany of the 1960s Chapter 6 6. "Avant-femme" or Futuristic Frauen: Collaborative Art by Women in the German Democratic Republic Chapter 7 7. The Second Self Chapter 8 8. "Encompassing Unboundness": Desire and Collaborative Authorship in Carla Harryman and Lyn Hejinian's "The Wide Road" Chapter 9 9. An Easy Alliance: A Dialogue on Methodology Chapter 10 10. Learning from Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown Chapter 11 11. Languages of Innovation Chapter 12 12. Working Together Chapter 13 13. Ken Friedman: A Life in Fluxus Chapter 14 14. Temporary Bedfellows: Claes Oldenburg, Maurice Tuchman and Disney Chapter 15 15. The Ivory Towers Were Always Connected: Interdisciplinary Dia(b)logues as Challenge and Choice Chapter 16 16. Socially Engaged Art, Critics, and Discontents: Interview with Claire Bishop Chapter 17 17. "Detrimental to the Interests of the United States": Cuban Artists (Not) in Residence Chapter 18 18. Suzanne Lacy: Oakland Projects Chapter 19 19. Simonides in the Machine: The Art of Virtual Memory in a Pentagon-funded Initiative Chapter 20 20. Locating a Temporary Common Space: Cultural Exchanges in Weedpatch Chapter 21 21. "Sometimes I'm Harvey Weinstein; Sometimes I'm Wes Craven. The Same Goes For My Brother." The Neistat Brothers Chapter 22 22. Having Their Cake and Eating it Too: The Case of Christo's (and Jeanne-Claude's) Im(permanence) and Exclusivity Chapter 23 23. The Wu-wei of the 21st Century Art of Collaboration Chapter 24 24. What is Conversational Music or "Convers"? Chapter 25 25. Some Thoughts on Collaboration Chapter 26 26. The Electron Buddy System Chapter 27 27. I Always Appreciated Teamwork and Collaborations Chapter 28 28. The Dream of a Common Language: Thoughts on Collaboration and Protest Chapter 29 29. Observations on Collective Cultural Action Chapter 30 30. New Social Art School Chapter 31 31. Complicity Chapter 32 32. Transromantik Chapter 33 33. On Collaboration Chapter 34 34. "This Way Up": Concept and Progress Chapter 35 35. Online Collaboration in Genomic Art Chapter 36 36. A Robot and Its Double Chapter 37 37. Art.es and Collaborative Projects Chapter 38 38. My Collaborative Art Chapter 39 39. Collaboration between Tracey Snelling and Salvador Diaz, Chicago, March 2005 Chapter 40 40. "i Woz" and Gina Chapter 41 41. "It seems simple, but it is not."

Holly Crawford brings together a series of interviews, essays, conversations, and remarks on collaboration. International visual artists, critics, writers, and musicians explore a range of histories, discourses and theories relating to communal, collective practices including FLUXUS, Zero, GRAV and SPUR in mid-20th century, women artists in the GDR and the Critical Art Ensemble in the Eighties and the experimental New Social Art School set up in Aberdeen in 2004. The resulting anthology, a considerable collaborative project in its own right, challenges orthodoxies and engages in the vital and current debate within the global artistic community about participative cooperative approaches.