archive of COLLABORATIONs (incomplete)
“Works of art initiate and provoke other works of art;
the process is a source of art itself.”
-Edward Hirsch, poet
COLLABORATIVE TEAMS/PROJECTS
C.D. Wright & Deborah Luster (Deepstep Come Shining, One Big Self)
Philip Guston and Clark Coolidge, Stanley Kunitz, et al (http://www.ubu.com/historical/guston/index.html)
Matthew Barney & Björk, Drawing Restraint 9
Robert Creeley & Francesco Clemente (Anamorphosis – http://www.2river.org/2RView/2_2/poems/anamorphosis.html)
Salvador Dalí & Luis Buñuel (L’Âge d’Or, HYPERLINK “http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0006IUE9I/poetsorg-20″Un Chien Andalu)
Salvador Dalí & Lorca (Mariana Pineda)
Nick Flynn & Josh Neufeld – http://www.poetrysociety.org/journal/articles/collaborations/fl2001/flynn-neufeld.html
Alain Robbe-Grillet & Robert Rauschenberg et al (see “Topology of a Phantom City”)
Vicki Hearne & Paul Gauguine
William Stafford and Marvin Bell, Segues: A Correspondence in Poetry
Jeannette Montgomery and Jorie Graham, Photographs and Poems
Poetry Plastique: A Verbal Explosion in the Art Factory, curated by Jay Sanders and Charles Bernstein
William S. Burroughs & Brion Gysin (cut-ups)
Kurt Schwitters & Kate Steinitz HYPERLINK “http://www.rbpathways.com/steinitz/San%20Bernadino/essays/emboden/Introductory%20Essays2.htm” http://www.rbpathways.com/steinitz/San%20Bernadino/essays/emboden/Introductory%20Essays2.htm
Rick Lowe – Project Row House, www.projectrowhouses.org
Suzanne Lacy, Whisper, the Waves, the Wind, The Roof is On Fire
Mel Chin – Transforma projects, Revival Field, http://channel.creative-capital.org/project_297.html
Center for Land Use Interpretation – www.clui.org
Farm Lab – HYPERLINK “http://www.farmlab.org” www.farmlab.org
Guerilla Girls
The Atlas Groupe – Waalid Ra’ad
Critical Art Ensemble - HYPERLINK “http://www.critical-art.net/” http://www.critical-art.net/
16 Beaver Group - HYPERLINK “http://www.16beavergroup.org/” http://www.16beavergroup.org/
Drew Gardner (poems, piano, vocals), Damon Smith (bass) - HYPERLINK “http://www.ubu.com/sound/gardner.html” http://www.ubu.com/sound/gardner.html
Julie Ault and Martin Beck – and Group Materials
Margrethe Mather and Edward Weston
Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher (Learning to Love You More)
Sharon Hayes and Andrea Geyer
Raquel Ormella and The Wilderness Society – http://www.raquelormella.com/archive.htm
Kerry Tribe and passerbys in LAX – http://www.kerrytribe.com/projects.html
Krzysztof Wodiczko & architecture – http://www.art-for-a-change.com/Krzysztof/krzy.htm
Group Material – http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_8_41/ai_101938563
Books of Dialogue
French Art Books: http://www.nypl.org/press/2006/frenchbookart.cfm
Stephane Mallarmé and Edouard Manet, L’Après-midi d’un faune ( The Afternoon
of a Faun ); Tristan Tzara and Picasso, Le Rose et le chien ( The Rose and the
Dog ); Jules Renard and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec; Alain Joufroy and Rene
Magritte; Reverdy’s collaborations with Matisse on Les Jockeys camouflés &
Periode hors-texte ( The Camouflaged Jockeys & Period in the Margins ), 1918;
with Juan Gris on La Guitare endormie ( The Sleeping Guitar ), 1919; and with
Pablo Picasso on Cravates de chanvre ( Hemp Neckties ), 1922…et al
Book Art of the Russian Avante-Garde (1910-1917)
http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/tango_with_cows/
Granary Books (more contemporary collaborations between writers/artists)
http://www.granarybooks.com/
EKPHRASTIC WRITINGS:
Rainer Maria Rilke, “Archaic Torso of Apollo”
John Ashbery, “Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror”
John Ashbery, Girls of the Run
Homer’s Account of the shield of Achilles
Auden/Williams Brueghel
Rosetti’s sonnet on Da Vinci’s Virgin of the Rocks
Charles Simic, Dime-Store Alchemy, The Art of Joseph Cornell
Mary Jo Bang, The Eye Like a Strange Balloon
Cole Swenson, The Book of a Hundred Hands
The writings of Gertrude Stein, in particular, the portraits of Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso
Paul Merchant, Some Business of Affinity (See “Crossing Over With a Burden” – translations of work by metal sculptor Steve Tilden
Pascalle Monnier, Bayart
Rebecca Wolf, Woman in Ill-Fitting Wig
Alain Robbe-Grillet (text in response to Magritte’s paintings; La Belle Captive)
OTHER SOURCES:
Wallace Stevens, “The Relations Between Poetry and Painting”
James A.W. Heffernan, Museum of Words: The Poetics of Ekphrasis from Homer to Ashbery
William Burroughs, “The Third Mind”
Richard Wilbur, illustrated by Alexander Calder, A Bestiary
Edward Hirsch, Transforming Vision: Writers on Art
Anthony Hecht, On the Laws of the Poetic Art
Johanna Drucker, Figuring the Word: Essays on Books, Writing and Visual Poetics
Donis A. Dondis, A Primer of Visual Literacy
Charles Altieri, Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry
John Ashbey, Reported Sightings (art reviews by the poet)
Charles Harrison, Essays on Art and Language
eds. Jed Rasula and Steve McCaffery, Imagining Language, an anthology
eds. Packer and Jordan, Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality
Irving Stone, Dear Theo
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
The work of Harrell Fletcher, an artist in Portland, Oregon who creates socially engaged interdisciplinary projects. HYPERLINK “http://www.harrellfletcher.com” http://www.harrellfletcher.com
Miranda July – HYPERLINK “http://learningtoloveyoumore.com/” http://learningtoloveyoumore.com/
bornmagazine.com (digital collaborations between artists and writers)
“Bioglyphs: A Living Collaboration with Bioluminescent Organisms” – HYPERLINK “http://www.erc.montana.edu/Bioglyphs/default.htm” http://www.erc.montana.edu/Bioglyphs/default.htm
HYPERLINK “http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID” http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID (Robert Creeley, Nick Flynn, etc.)
La Generacion del 27: Dalí, Buñuel, and Lorca (Spanish Surrealists)
HYPERLINK “http://www.pbs.org/art21/series/seasonone/index.html#” http://www.pbs.org/art21/series/seasonone/index.html# (art in the 21st century)
Gavin Bryars. HYPERLINK “http://www.gavinbryars.com/Pages/jesus_blood_never_failed_m.html” http://www.gavinbryars.com/Pages/jesus_blood_never_failed_m.html (works with sound)
James Turrell HYPERLINK “http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/turrell/card1.html” http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/turrell/card1.html (works with light)
The Mystery of Picasso (film)
Sans Soleil (film by Chris Marker)
neo-Benji
Black Mountain Artists (Cage and Cunningham; Satie play, Ruse of Medusa (Fuller, Cunningham, Cage, de Koonings, MC Richards)
Nathaniel Mackey, “Sound and Sentiment, Sound and Symbol” (poems based on music/sounds)
John Cage
F.T. Marinetti and the Italian Futurists
Haiga (haiku-style paintings, often accompanied by haiku)
William Carlos Williams and Juan Gris
Ezra Pound & the Imagists
New York School Writers & Artists (especially Frank O’Hara & Mike Goldberg)
Gertrude Stein & Picasso’s influence on one another – http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5927
HYPERLINK “http://www.afterall.org/” http://www.afterall.org/
FROM THE WRITTEN TO THE VISUAL
Jeff Wall’s, Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Allan Sekula, Tsukiji, (Takiji Kobayashi author of The Factory Ship)
Roni Horn and Emily Dickinson http://drc.ohiolink.edu/handle/2374.OX/5319
Cy Twombly and William Carlos Williams
Barbara Kruger and Edgar Allan Poe, Goethe, etc
Andrea Fraser and museum texts (institutional critique)
Emory Douglas and the Black Panthers http://www.moca-la.org/emorydouglas/
Jane Hammond and John Ashberry http://www.bombsite.com/issues/81/articles/2503
…
Films (a couple examples of thousands of adaptations):
Michelangelo Antonioni’s, “Blow Up” (based on the short story by Julio Cortazar)
Coen Brothers, “No Country for Old Men” (based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy)
Paul Thomas Anderson, “There Will be Blood” (based partly on “Oil” by Lewis Sinclair)
Illustrated Books:
Lane Smith (George Saunders, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip)
CROSS-DISCIPLINE ARTISTS
Henry Micheaux (poems and paintings/drawings)
David Berman (poems and music, Silver Jews)
René Magritte (paintings and language/linguistics)
Kenneth Patchen (“painted poems” – HYPERLINK “http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5931″ http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5931)
David Bunn (Library Card Catalogues)
ISSUES RAISED:
on Authorship & Authenticity:
Joy Garnett, “On the Rights of the Molotov Man”
Jonathan Lethem, “The Ecstasy of Influence”
–> Bod Dylan & Henry Timrod – http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=178703
Henry Darger Show of Influence - http://blog.art21.org/2008/06/02/contemporary-artists-and-henry-darger/
Outsider Art Fair Article http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/01/09/arts/0109-OUTS_index.html
on Translation & Transgression:
Forest Gander, A Faithful Existence
Un Coup de Des:
Writing Turned Image
An Alphabet of Pensive Language
Generali Foundation exhibition
Other
Marc Lombardi – nytimes article: ART; The Sinister Beauty of Global Conspiracies
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03E2DD1F3EF935A15753C1A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&emc=eta1
Types of Visual Poetry:
“Ava” by Carole Maso (1993)
“35 Variations on a Theme from Shakespeare” by Harry Matthrews. In this poem Matthews re-arranges the phrase “To be or not to be” in 35 different ways. http://www.elhombrequecomiadiccionarios.com/35-variations-on-a-theme-from-shakespeare
“Square Poem” by Lewis Carroll
http://www.grand-illusions.com/articles/square_poem/page02.shtml
John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
http://englishhistory.net/keats/poetry/odeonagrecianurn.html
By: Samantha on January 10, 2009
at 9:20 pm
Just google William Blake. His crossover between writing and visual art is awesome, if a little weird.
David Schorr, an artist with lots of experience collaborating with writers.
http://davidschorr.com/
By: Timothy Henderson on January 11, 2009
at 1:31 pm
National Geographic’s “All Roads Film Festival”
It is an international program that showcases the work of various film-makers “spanning the globe and [featuring] genres of international film, art, music, and photography.” The purpose of the films is to integrate all media/mediums in a way that reflects a particular cultural viewpoint or perspective.
http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/allroads/index.html
“Art, a Bridge to Health in Belen, Iquitos, Peru”
This is a collaborative project between artists, performers and the health/medical organizations who believe that through art the cycle of violence can be broken and proper health and relationships promoted. *The real Patch Adams of the Geshundheit Institute is an active sponsor and participant. (The following video is really interesting)
By: Christine Downs on January 12, 2009
at 12:07 am
An inspiring collaboration for me is between the artist, Kaws, and the musician, Kanye West. Kaws animated and designed the cover and inset photos of West’s limited edition version of his new album, “808′s & Heartbreak.”
Kaws’ blog: http://www.kawsone.com/blog
Kanye’s blog: http://www.kanyeuniversecity.com/blog/
Sample of the album cover by Kaws:
http://hypebeast.com/2009/01/kaws-x-kanye-west-808s-and-heartbreak-billboard/kaws-kanye-west-808s-heartbreak-billboard-4/
Here’s a glimpse of some inset artwork:
http://www.kanyeuniversecity.com/blog/?em3106=214025_-1__0_~0_-1_11_2008_0_0&em3281=&em3161=
By: Stephen McCombe on January 12, 2009
at 12:48 am
Eddie Vedder collaborated with Sean Penn to write the score for “Into the Wild”. Vedder’s music was clearly influenced by Penn’s vision for this American saga. Look it up on iTunes.
By: Timothy Henderson on January 12, 2009
at 11:15 am
The collaborations between Nick Flynn (poet) and Josh Neufeld (graphic artist) are pretty cool! Here is an example:
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16854
By: Tucker Burton on January 12, 2009
at 12:08 pm
Andy Goldsworpthy makes incredible art that uses the natural beauty of the land. He has created a book called “Collaborations With Nature.” His book shows the possibilities of man working with the natural world.
By: Oakley Jackson on January 12, 2009
at 12:47 pm
Here is a website that shows his work.
By: Oakley Jackson on January 12, 2009
at 12:48 pm
http://www.elsinore.net/gayle/art.htm
Not sure if it’s really a collaboration but I find the poem that accompany each painting often change my view of the painting
By: Drew Petzing on January 12, 2009
at 11:54 pm
I’m not sure in which category of collaboration this would fall but if you haven’t seen Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog) by Luis Buñuel its worth checking out. Salvador Dali appears in the film and I’m pretty sure the title refers to Federico Garcia Lorca.
Here is a clip of it from youtube:
and I’m pretty sure they have it on DVD in the library.
By: Deanna Tamborelli on January 13, 2009
at 2:14 pm
Dante’s Inferno and Divine comedy have been used in a variety of written, painted, composed, etc. works since their conception. Wikipedia provides some good links to the various works.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Divine_Comedy
By: Charlie Schopp on January 13, 2009
at 8:09 pm
BASQUIAT AND WARHOL.
jean-michel basquiat and andy warhol were very good friends, and collaborated on a number of paintings together. when these works were initially exhibited in 1985, they were scorned by the critics, as such direct collaborative work was not widely recognized. the new york times review compared the exhibition to the mustache that Duchamp added to the Mona Lisa reproduction. some claimed that basquiat dominated the paintings, simply by scribbling over warhols work, and others saw basquiat as a victim who was becoming too much like warhol. critics claimed that the relationship of the artists interfered with the actual work. such skeptical reviews supposedly began to deteriorate the warhol-basquiat friendship, although they had such deep love for each other, that after warhols death, basquait supposedly fell into such deep depression and self-destructive habits that he died soon after at the young age of 28, from a cocaine-herione a.ka. “speedballing” overdose.
however, the influence and connection the artists had over each others work and style is now revered and respected. i just recently saw this exhibition in a chelsea gallery in nyc.
http://www.artnet.com/artwork/424109552/139637/jean-michel-basquiat-and-andy-warhol-arm-and-hammer-ii.html
http://www.misshapes.com/blog/misshapes/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/30194andy-warhol-and-jean-michel-basquiat-posters.jpg
By: lingji on January 14, 2009
at 8:53 am
Hunter S. Thompson and Ralph Steadman worked really well together for Thompson’s book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I believe the book started out as a serial magazine thing (not sure really, kind of half remember this) and Steadman used to illustrate for each new “chapter”. Now that it is in book format, there are editions that come complete with Steadman’s illustrations. Thompson (as many of you might know) was very particular as an artist and had a very specific (although seemingly undefinable to others) program he wanted to work with in his writing- so the visual representation of that writing meant a lot to him and he made sure Steadman produced images that reflected what he was trying to get across, but it seems to me he did it without really imposing on Steadman too much, allowing the man behind the drawings to maintain his artistic integrity. I’m jabbering now, but if anyone is interested I saw a documentary on the internet where Thompson hints at his ideas on collaboration and reinterpretation- I’ll go find the link if I can.
-Cheers
By: cairo119 on January 14, 2009
at 11:36 am
I am hoping to use influences from Shel Silverstein in some form on my final project. I originally began to like him for his poems as a kid but have since learned of multiple collaborations he has done with other musicians. This website describes some of the work he has accomplished over the years, http://mog.com/redtunictroll/blog/129296. Shel Silverstein is a world renowned artist that evokes a sense of happiness and joy on all of his readers faces and I hope to relay his feelings in my work.
By: Taylor Robinson on January 14, 2009
at 4:20 pm
Although Ekphrasis consists of writings about visual art, an example of absolutely breathtaking writing about music is Thomas Mann’s “Doktor Faustus”. I recommend it to anyone with any interest in music, genius, and aesthetics.
Speaking about German authors and aesthetics, Nietzsche’s “Birth of Tragedy”, besides being a stunning look at Greek Culture and the aesthetic nature of tragedy and existence, is a work with a dizzyingly beautiful writing style and a magnificent collection of aphorisms.
By: nbujalsk on January 14, 2009
at 4:51 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doktor_Faustus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_of_Tragedy
(especially awesome is the intellectual power and legacy of the Apollonian / Dionysian dichotomy)
By: nbujalsk on January 14, 2009
at 4:52 pm
Karl Blossfeldt. I like his images of plants, they feel alot like portraits to me. there seems to be something very personal about the images.
http://www.soulcatcherstudio.com/exhibitions/blossfeldt/index.htm
Harold Feinstein. A newer take on a similar subject. There are some really beautiful images of plants here too, and shells a la Edward Weston.
http://www.haroldfeinstein.com/
I have been reading a lot of Cormack Mcarthy recently, though I am not entirely sold on his works yet, but there are some very interesting stylistic choices in his prose.
I have enjoyed the short stories of Tobias Wolff, at least one of which has been made into a short film, its about a man in a bank who is shot during a hold up for his over assertive attitude.
The short stories of Etgar Keret have been quite intriguing though many are gruesome or weird, they all seem very original. My favorite was featured on an episode of This American Life, but I have not yet found it in one of his written collections.
By: andersmeyer on January 14, 2009
at 7:36 pm
I have always been a fan of Robert Frost and his most famous poem “The Road Not Taken.” I’ve always liked it because I feel it has a lot to do with individualism and it can often take many different meanings to different readers. My favorite part of it is the last segment: “I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.” I believe that the poem is about defining yourself as a person during the daily choices an individual must make everyday in life.
Robert Frost has many other tremendous poems that I recommend everyone look up. This poem can easily be found on the internet, but here is one link. http://poetrypages.lemon8.nl/life/roadnottaken/roadnottaken.htm
By: Jonathan Ercole on January 14, 2009
at 9:47 pm
Sanna Annukka is a Finnish illustrator whose biggest influence is folklore from her native country and she often creates characters from the tales she reads.
Her illustrations are colorful and extremely playful.
I originally heard about her when I studied abroad in Denmark, but she seems to pop up often: she has illustrated all of Keane’s album covers and this summer will design a line of textiles for Marimekko.
her portfolio can be seen here: http://www.sanna-annukka.com/home/
By: hillaryp on January 14, 2009
at 10:09 pm
I’ve been really inspired by Danny Seo, who calls himself an “environmental lifestyle expert.” Danny Seo began his environmental work when he founded an organization when he was very young because he felt a deep connection to the environmental movement (his birthday is Earth Day).
As he has gained more press and his “eco-living” style has caught on, Danny Seo collaborates more and more with companies and designers looking to “go green.”
He is a partner with J.C. Penny and helped design their first “green” mattress, in addition to partnering with the eco-friendly cleaning supply company Method to create all-natural laundry detergents, etc.
In my opinion, Danny’s greatest work is his home decorating — he is obsessed with thrift and antique shopping and creates beautiful displays of plates, candles, etc, all from re-used objects. He posts alot of his ideas on his blog:
http://dannyseo.typepad.com/
By: 07howardl on January 14, 2009
at 11:07 pm
Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote a wonderfully creepy and sublime poem called the Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798). In 1870, Gustave Dore made a series of engravings based on the scenes in Coleridge’s masterpiece. When you pair the poem with the engravings the creepiness is intensified tenfold. The artistry between these two is amazing-they work really well together and the poem simply jumps off the page and into your imagination. If you haven’t had the pleasure of reading this one already, you should do it soon.
By: cairo119 on January 15, 2009
at 12:50 pm
Wonderful work !
I am fascinated — among many other combinations and possibilities — of work addressing the synergies between the worlds of the two great Zen Masters Wallace Stevens and Rene Magritte, both of whom I have been captivated by since mid-adolescence { now 4.5 decades gone-by }.
Anyone OuThere ?
By: Howard Charles Yourow, SJD on March 25, 2009
at 8:09 am
Wonderful work !
I am fascinated — among many other combinations and possibilities — with work addressing the synergies between the worlds of the two great Zen Masters Wallace Stevens and Rene Magritte, both of whom I have been captivated by since mid-adolescence { now 4.5 decades gone-by }.
Anyone OuThere ?
By: Howard Charles Yourow, SJD on March 25, 2009
at 8:12 am