As an artist, I have explored various configurations of collaborative projects. After decades of work, I became curious about why most of my artistic activities occur in collaboration processes [1]. Concepts from the social sciences, sciences, and philosophy percolated to include citations that equated collaboration with interconnectivity and the liquid network; with open systems and as a field of activity; and with collision of differences, and adjacent possibilities:
The strange and beautiful truth about the adjacent possible is that its boundaries grow as you explore those boundaries. Each new combination ushers new combinations into the adjacent possible [2].
For me, viewing collaboration as a “field of activity” encourages a perspective that acknowledges the multi-layered complexities at work in any given encounter in a non-reductive way [3].
To participate in the 2023 Leonardo@Djerassi residency (1) with a larger-scale collaborative project with the Marine Institute of...