Call For Papers: Collaborating Now

The Collaborating Now Project would like to invite essays from
writers in arts-related disciplines for a book focused on the
state of contemporary collaborative practices in the arts. The
Collaborating Now Project began in 2009 with an international
collaborative artwork project in which artists in New Zealand and
around the world created a collaborative artwork (facilitated by
Gregory Sholette) and discussed their ideas about collaborative
art.

Authors are invited to investigate why and how contemporary
artistic practices and theories have recently emerged as ways of
engaging in and thinking about collaborative art, why there is a
sudden, renewed interest in collaborations within the artworld,
and the implications this new trend has for making and writing
about art today.

Examples of suitable topics include, but are not limited to: the
nature and function of collectives in art; challenges facing
collaborations working across different artistic media; challenges
of forming and maintaining collectives; the disenfranchisement of
artists and the rise of collectivism; hybrid collaborations;
collaborations and place; collaborations and politics; why
collaborate now; collaborations in the post-nationalist world. We
also welcome papers about particular artworks or art groups as a
springboard for discussing larger, philosophical and critical
issues about collaborations.

Abstracts should be 500 words, and essays should be 2000-4000
words, in a style and format that makes them accessible to artists,
art critics, curators and art historians, and written in a way to
support serious and focused academic thought.

Abstracts and essays will be refereed blind by a member of the
editorial advisory board. Please direct all submissions to
<sondra.bacharachvuw.ac.nz>.

Abstracts and papers should be prepared for blind referee and
submitted in Word or RTF, via email to: <Sondra.bacharachvuw.ac.nz>

Deadline for abstracts (500 words): 15 October 2010.
Deadline for final papers (2000-4000 words): 1 February 2011.