Re: [-empyre-] third texts, third bodies, third minds

[Lloyd Sharp <lsharp@bigpond.net.au>]

> I think the thing is, though, that so many artistic (and intellectual)
> collaborations get re-integrated socially and discursively into the model of
> the couple. In the couple, one term usually becomes privileged over the other
> (Deleuze over Guattari) or else it is only in the endless 
> reflectiveness of the
> couple and their acts that the outcome takes place (Ulay and Abramovic). Often
> part of the couple then has to break free in order to work again. It's
> necessary to constantly work against this recuperation perhaps by multiplying
> collaborations with different people, by continuing to work outside them in
> one's own space, and by hanging onto the passion generated in them rather than
> losing oneself in the safety of their identity,

It's also often the case in art/technology based collaborative works 
that collaborators who appear to have more technical experience, and 
who often consequently contribute in a more 'practical' way, find it 
leads to their relegation later in the relationship as simply being a 
technician who facilitates production for the other 'thinking' 
collaborators.