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On Collaboration<\/span><\/em> is a short essay I wrote as part of my MA research (2008 – 10), informed by my experiences of collaborative practice as one half of LOW PROFILE<\/a> and the on-going requirements in educational settings to reinforce\u00a0individual authorship.<\/p>\n

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DETAIL: Back cover of original On Collaboration pamphlet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The essay was initially published as a small pamphlet with accompanying live writing piece and later re-published in the first issue of Nom de Strip<\/a> (an independent journal of Arts & Culture in the South West).<\/p>\n

Since then, Hannah Jones & I have also written an invited piece on collaboration for Artquest’s How To Be An Artist series<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0reflecting on our first 10 years of collaborative practice as LOW PROFILE<\/a> in 2013.<\/p>\n

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A personal desire for definition: <\/strong><\/h3>\n

Collaboration is not the same as co-operation<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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In the discourse around arts practices, I often find myself confronted by the use\/mis-use of the term collaboration. As someone who has been engaged for a prolonged period in this way of working, I have felt the need to define\/re-define this term \u2013 it seems to me so useful, it would be a shame to lose its potential as a term that denotes a very particular working arrangement \u2013 one that I see as quite distinct from a more simple co-operation (working together).<\/p>\n

I\u2019d like to express a desire to \u2018save\u2019 the term collaboration<\/span> to describe a way of working between two or more people, where the creative process confuses authorship to the extent that none of the collaborators can identify elements (or contributions) that are solely \u2018theirs\u2019 \u2013 generating a product that is \u2018shared\u2019 rather than claimed solely by any one contributor. It is with this sense of collaboration<\/span> in mind that I am attempting to unpack my position as a co-creator of the work produced under the moniker LOW PROFILE.<\/p>\n

This wilful confusion of authorship, ownership and accountability, of course, presents complications in the academic situation \u2013 how can I present (any of) this practice, this work or these ideas as truly \u2018my own\u2019, and more particularly, \u2018my own unaided work\u2019?<\/p>\n

11. Author\u2019s Signed Declaration*<\/strong><\/p>\n

If your work has been part of a collaborative group project, a declaration must be made to indicate clearly your own individual contribution and the form and extent of collaboration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* from Protocols and Conventions for Dissertations (MA Guidelines document), University College Falmouth incorporating Dartington College of Arts<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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In a similar way, it is unhelpful (if not, unachievable) to begin to indicate, list or tally \u2018my own\u2019 individual contributions \u2013 to do so seems to reduce the situation of collaboration<\/span> (an intricate, interdependent working relationship that relies on shared ownership rather than individual possession) to one of co- operation (synonymous with less complex notions of helping each other out, assisting one another, or working together towards an identifiable aim).<\/p>\n

My intention in producing this statement (as one half of the collaboration LOW PROFILE) is not an attempt to plagiarise or \u2018pass off\u2019 the work created by LOW PROFILE as simply \u2018my own\u2019, or to evade scrutiny of how the work was developed, but to acknowledge that this practice, this work and these ideas are produced through (and informed by) a collaboration<\/span> where we each (as heterogeneous individuals) take equal\/shared\/joint credit, responsibility and attribution for what is created.<\/p>\n

Who is this we?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The word \u201cwe\u201d suggests a manifesto, something that is bigger than \u201cI\u201d or \u201cme\u201d. \u201cWe\u201d suggests conspiratorial activity. \u201cWe\u201d suggests a promise, pledge or commitment. \u201cWe\u201d suggests an equal agreement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We are in this together.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When Hannah was studying for her MA, she was asked to write down (to make a list of) the things that she was responsible for within the work that we had produced as LOW PROFILE. The institution wanted her to define and separate whose ideas were whose, who had done what and what work was identifiably hers.<\/p>\n

We realised at this point that a list like this would be disastrous to a\/our collaboration<\/span> \u2013 undermining what we had built by introducing greed, individual possession and ego.<\/p>\n

Who is this we?<\/strong><\/p>\n

In our writing, when we (LOW PROFILE)\u00a0talk of \u201cwe\u201d, we are talking of ourselves as\u00a0a collaborative duo and the space where\u00a0our beliefs, concerns and ideas intersect (becoming shared), but at times, we are also hinting towards the simultaneous suggestions of \u201cwe\u201d widening its definition to include the audience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The form and extent of the collaboration<\/strong><\/p>\n

We are involved in (and committed to) developing work in a conversational way \u2013 trying to work things out through talking, going to see things (i.e. films, exhibitions, performances) together, friendship, (sometimes) getting drunk, telling each other about things we have seen or read, and writing collaboratively – generating \u2018sanctioned\u2019 texts. This leads to a situation where stability is achieved through each comma\/every detail being discussed, cases being put forward, argument erupting and so on, until the resulting texts or ideas become \u2018stable\u2019.<\/p>\n

Faithfully documenting this process would require a constant state of data collection (which in itself would be undesirable and almost unmanageable), and once the implications of the request for such detail have been properly considered, the resulting document – imagine a series of interlinked\/hypertextual documents where each word is accounted for by an unlimited series of \u2018track changes\u2019 marks – is also not a tally that would be particularly legible, let alone insightful, interesting or useful to those producing it.<\/p>\n

Where do the individual contributions go?<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I think about collaboration<\/span>, and especially when I find myself looking through a \u2018paper-trail\u2019 that inadvertently documents the process of working together (emails, notes, drafts etc.), I wonder about how this process affects what gets picked up, what is left behind and what ends up being worked into the \u2018final\u2019 piece, text or idea.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m thinking about this not so much in terms of keeping score (I\u2019m not very interested in this and hence an excellent person to play badminton against) but more in terms of this not being so visible in a solo creative practice where the decisions are made by one individual.<\/p>\n

I find it fascinating that on a different day, we could easily choose a different set of solutions (there are always more possibilities than we can ever use) \u2013 this tacit process of formulating<\/strong> (first through individual thought processes), presenting<\/strong> (talking about\/sharing ideas and fragments), testing<\/strong> (often individual thought process \u2013 does it make sense to you too?), considering (where could this go?), re-formulating<\/strong> (a formation of shared\/agreed ideas or directions), re-presenting<\/strong> (beginning to \u2018make\u2019 something) and re-testing<\/strong> (does it work?\/how does it work? etc).<\/p>\n

I think I have forgotten how people do this in a solo practice (I forget sometimes how working \u2018alone\u2019 might even be possible, let alone desirable!) \u2013 when can the process not start to involve other people?<\/p>\n

We are in this together.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rachel Dobbs (LOW PROFILE) 2009<\/p>\n

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\"PDF\"Download<\/strong> the full essay in PDF format…\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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