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The Art of Conversation - Provenance (Sonya 2012-current)

My experience at tbC has resulted in a deep respect for the power of collaboration. I really enjoy sharing in the making and production of artworks with my fellow artists. This enjoyment overrides the need to always own an idea or personally author an artwork. The collaborative process is such a lively and unpredictable one. This makes the preserving of individual contributions and the origins of ideas really difficult to monitor. An artwork needs to develop freely. There is often a rapid flow of ideas, twists and turns in the making of an artwork. This process can’t be interfered with. To do so would alter the course of the process and its outcome. At tbC, we understand this process; we respect it and appreciate that it delivers interesting experiences and outcomes – ones we are happy to share. In my view, to try and record every twist and turn of this free-flowing process would render the work we make together less successful or perhaps even ruin the process and outcome. The fact that the collaborative experience is so enjoyable makes the need for such control, identification and acknowledgement less important. It is actually quite an amazing experience when an audience appreciates and acknowledges one of tbC’s group-made artworks. The collective enjoyment this appreciation and acknowledgement brings is very different to the solo experience of such. I find sharing in this appreciation and acknowledgement incredibly rewarding. It is an experience that fuels my artistic practice in general.

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