[NetBehaviour] COLLECTIVITY? YOU MEAN COLLABORATION

[marc]

*COLLECTIVITY? YOU MEAN COLLABORATION*

Bojana Cvejic

About a year ago when Emil Hrvatin and I proposed a performance project 
addressing collectivity, I couldn't anticipate the resistance and 
confusion the term alone would bring.

A dozen responses from programmers, critics, and theorists from the 
experimental field of European dance and performance, whom we asked for 
a critical reflection on the project proposal, resonated in a consensus 
of questions:

"Aren't you aware of how ideologised and outmoded the term is? Do you 
mean collectivity as a modus operandi or as a topic of research? In 
other words, are you working collectively or on collectivity? We would 
be happier if you substituted 'collectivity' with a term more suitable 
to contemporary practices - collaboration, namely - as collaboration 
involves a space of negotiation of individual differences."

If collaboration is a buzzword for a working habitus in performance 
today, collectivism is abandoned, or even repressed and repulsive in its 
very idea. The uneasiness with collectivity is more than a symptom of 
the politics of liberal individualism in performing arts.

more...
http://www.republicart.net/disc/aap/cvejic01_en.htm
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