Collaborations has introduced me to a range of new ways of working from curating collaboratively and working in groups in the studio to exploring ways established artist work with each other.
Throughout the practical element of the project we had to work together to over come a series of obstacles. In the first project we where set rules to follow in creating a piece of work. In this project we ended up using the app Boomerang to create rhythmic giffs, something that has been very useful in my non-collaborate work since. We have also had to curate, approach outside groups with regards to collaborative projects and explore the idea of manifestos which are not only useful in our collaborative practice but also in my individual work.
Through the critical studies element of the project I have discovered even more ways that collaboration has been used by artists throughout history. My essay explored the idea of posthumous collaborations with a particular focus on Jake and Dinos Chapman's work with Goya's etchings The Disasters of War. It was by looking at works like this that I really began to understand that collaboration can be more than just group work and often the works I was drawn to where the ones which question the very nature of collaboration its self.