Starptelpa 2023: Collaborative Authorship

Having a profound tradition in the history of performance art, collaboration can be developed both as a strategic and aesthetic tool in various directions resulting in pluralistic authorship. Most often though, collaborative authorship refers to an artist or artists interactively collaborating with a spectator or spectators, encouraging and facilitating the spectator’s engagement and participation in the creation of the work of art so much so that the spectator becomes a co-author. In this synergy, the question of agency and affective dynamics, as well as the experiential model of a collaborative work of art becomes crucial. When an artist collaborates with the spectator, a process-based work of art or a constructed situation is created, the outcome of which can also be immaterial and not exclusively object-based. Consequently, the very process of (co)creation, togetherness, social dynamics, communication and other elements of mutual interaction are prevalent in the festival.