ARTS 305
Collaboration in Practice Spring 2025
Division I

“Collaboration in Practice” offers multiple views into collaborative art production, explored through a series of intensive group studio projects, informed by the history and theory of collective cultural work. Students work collaboratively in a range of artistic media–including but not limited to drawing, painting, video, sculpture, textiles, and performance–to locate possibilities for making and interpreting as mutual and relational actions. Studio art provides numerous points of entry for attenuating between individual and group identities, as well as the means to fruitfully explore communal alternatives to normative (patriarchal, colonial) notions of authorship, self-sufficiency and self-improvement. This studio-based course welcomes students with a variety of experiences and interests, building on diverse techniques and tactics developed in our individual creative practices and research interests as points of departure. As a practical engagement with group relations and choreographies of power, this course foregrounds the interdependence and polyvocality that underlie and facilitate all cultural work, giving clarity to the concerns and potentialities of collaborative practice.