Arts & International Affairs: Volume 2, Number 2 | Page 61

Dorothy Miell:
You need to both understand the parameters. But that doesn’t mean that
you have to share a sense of exactly where to go because the outcome is a
property resulting from the process of collaborating. Vera John-Steiner has
illustrated the very different forms of collaborations that can be successful
with accounts of particular partnerships and collaborations between well
known people from many different disciplines and domains.
J. P. Singh:
There are two elements here: One is the artist in dialogue with the world.
And then, there’s a collective striving.
Dorothy Miell:
It’s almost as if there’s not just two individuals in that case, there’s also the
collaborative entity. It’s almost like there’s two people coming together, but
they’re coming together to do this thing that is more than either of them put
together. The artist Helen Storey talks about this really well in discussing
the many multidisciplinary collaborative projects that she’s been involved
with. And you recognize that they are in this place where there’s something
more than those two individuals, it’s bigger than them.
Website describing Helen Storey’s
many collaborative artistic projects
URL: www.helenstoreyfoundation.org
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