Collaborative Art in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies)

Collaboration in the arts is no longer a conscious choice to make a deliberate artistic statement, but instead a necessity of artistic survival. In today’s hybrid world of virtual mobility, collaboration decentralizes creative strategies, enabling artists to carve new territories and maintain practice-based autonomy in an increasingly commercial and saturated art world. Collaboration now transforms not only artistic practices but also the development of cultural institutions, communities and personal lifestyles.

This book explores why collaboration has become so integrated into a greater understanding of creative artistic practice. It draws on an emerging generation of contributors―from the arts, art history, sociology, political science, and philosophy―to engage directly with the diverse and interdisciplinary nature of collaborative practice of the future.

Sondra Bacharach is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Siv B. Fjærestad is a Norwegian-born artist and curator, living in New Zealand. She holds an MA in Visual Arts from Goldsmiths College in London.

Jeremy Neil Booth is an artist, writer, and publisher currently based in Germany. He holds an MFA from Bauhaus Universität, Weimar, Germany.