ART Habens Art Review ART Habens Art Review - Special Issue #89 | Page 153
Irena Romendik
ART Habens
In the natural world things don’t exist in a
vacuum, constantly interacting with each
other, intermixing, influencing, mimic each
other’s properties, parasitizing, helping
each other grow, intermingling, enhancing,
or ignoring each other’s presence -- we all
share the air we breath. Collaboration is
unavoidable, even when it is not recognized
as such: even a lonely painter locked in his
studio works with materials, consuming the
art and craft of pigment making, as well as
possibly beer brewing, while secretly
wrangling his counterparts from whole
preceding art history. In 2017 much of
artistic production happens in big “art
factories” full of assistants, where it’s the
matter of defining a verge between “the
artist” and his “tools”, granting the privilege
of the credit to the top of the food chain.
Collaborations are full of serendipities, often
evolving emerging properties into new
practices and ideas, and breaking
stereotypes -- I agree with Peter Tabor.
I love Peter Greenaway’s old film The Belly
of an Architect where the whole drama of
creation revolves around deterioration of
the master’s stomach, exposing
multidimensionality of creative process.
Currently, I’m working with a beautiful
dancer Yuri Ogasawara -- her dance is an
essential part of the project. While engaging
audience in observation, I use live
projection to expose collaborative
interaction, inviting active seeing, looking to
record an aftertaste, and not a recipe. To
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