Three

3.  20/03/13

Imagining a re-synchronising: 

(The Phantom Twin)

In the form of a video conversation The Modern Language Experiment screened a collection of short films and videos by artists Robert Crosse, Erica Scourti and Maria Marshall and two clips from the documentaries Kony 2012 and We Live in Public. Matthew Stock and Keh Ng took slightly adverse positions to consider when and what would constitute a collaboration in video and film based art practices. 

'The process of formulating the collective possibilities that presents themselves when we no longer focus on the individual as the basic atom of creative production.

Beyond the experience of being a creative self we are becoming more and more attuned to multifaceted and dynamic creative generation that issues from collective entities. This creative matrix seems to be a promising ground from which to start thinking about social and political life and to imagine ways in which we might take up the challenges of the future.'

For me the axis of the discussion was, are we as viewers of screens, collaborators? 

Here are some links to the texts and films discussed:

The Loneliness of the Project by Boris Groys, 2002

http://www.ny-magazine.org/PDF/Issue%201.1.%20Boris%20Groys.pdf

Kony 2012

http://vimeo.com/invisible/kony2012

We Live in Public

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XSTwfdFwIYY

www.modernlanguageexperiment.org

 

This video conversation was a collaboration between The Modern Language Experiment and madamewang.com and it will generate an Event Article as part of a forthcoming series of Event Articles on madamewang.com 

  

 And the cake was peanut butter and white chocolate blondies...