The further we move into a sphere of practice that places collaboration and co-creation at its heart, the more urgent questions relating to ethics become. Is it ok for curators and artists to receive a fee for a collaborative project that is co-authored with members of a community, while those members remain unremunerated? Is our work empowering or tokenistic? Who is the ‘author’ of these projects and what do we mean by ‘participation’, ‘collaboration’, ‘engagement’ and ‘co-creation’? How murky are these terms and who do they serve?
What is collaboration? as part of Assembly, was chaired by Matteo Lucchetti, Curator at Visible Project with speakers Samra Mayanja, artist and writer and Kerry Campbell, independent contemporary curator.
