The works that make up this research include performances, invitations, events, and proposals; each of which helps to develop the argument for an art practice that embraces modes of collaboration, facilitation and dispensed authorship. The representation and authorship of such work is explored in this report, which deploys the reflective/subjective account of its author alongside witness testimonies of collaborators, which are presented as the portfolio in the second volume of this research, to explore how collective work might be narrated.

The generative/discursive methods and structures developed over the course of this research have already been used to help support communication in patients with aphasia, and it is also envisaged that the work will contribute to discourses around art practice, collaboration and authorship.

As a result of this research, I identified a number of values that relate to collaboration, the most significant being the value of intimacy, which sits alongside terms such trust, belief, kindness and generosity. In this report, I wish to argue that intimacy is an essential state in the collaborative act and retrospectively ask, ‘In what way does a collaboration perform intimacy, and what does intimacy enable in the act of making?

Links

• Two Art, Raw Gallery: http://www.rawart-gallery.com/exhibition/nir-segal-two-work/
• There is a Light that Never Goes Out: http://www.rawart-gallery.com/exhibition/nir-segal-and-eloise-fornieles-there-is-a-light/
• Outset residency at Baker Street: https://outset.org.uk/supported-projects/residency-at-baker-street/
• Thirst Day at Outset: https://outset.org.uk/supported-projects/thirst-day/

Supervisors

Primary: Jo Volley
Secondary and third: Late Professor Edward Allington and Dr Hayley Newman

Contact
email: nirsegal@mac.com

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