Collective or collaborative art is simply a camel with attitude.
Art
THE SELF-CENTERED, THE COLLECTIVE AND THE ATEMPORAL
While the cult of the heroic individual artist will seemingly continue forever, collaboration around shared philosophies, shared knowledge and that a work of art is not necessarily anchored to a specific individual, time or place may well be the most effective response to the time in which we find ourselves – past, present and future as one.
FEARLESSNESS, ABUSE AND THE CRITICAL FACULTY
Fearlessness is all well and good but when the criteria for critical appraisal are based not on objectivity, profound knowledge, understanding and an ability to express all of that in terms that elucidate and not obfuscate, what you are left with is simply opinion.
OF CAKE AND THE CRISIS OF IDENTITY
It’s not the first time that confections have ended up on the copyright battlefront.
NAKED, NUDE and THE REVERENTIAL SELFIE
Perhaps as a society we’ve actually grown up. Having seen episode one of Bridgeton and social and emotional suppression taken to extremes, lived through the sexual revolution of the late 60s when for some all ‘rules’ went out of the window, to whatever we have today...
CENSURE, PROPRIETY AND THE JAILED ARTIST
There is nothing new about artists poking the bear for a variety of causes from government inaction to government action