{"id":5903,"date":"2016-01-03T17:17:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T21:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=5903"},"modified":"2016-01-05T17:27:52","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T21:27:52","slug":"collaboration-in-collage-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/5903","title":{"rendered":"Collaboration in Collage, part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cConnecting unexpected people, places, objects, and ideas provides a huge boost to your imagination. You can practice this skill by using provocative metaphors, interacting with those outside your normal circles, building on existing ideas, and finding inspiration in unlikely places.\u201d
\n\u2014 Tina Seelig
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As the international cross-pollination of collage artists advances into the new year, facebook.com <\/em>continues to be a significant crossroads for active collaborators. The BINGO-card project of Terry Flowers<\/a> is pushing the boundaries of imagination, and Kevin Brandtner\u2019s enormous margarine-card initiative<\/a> shows no sign of winding down. The Vienna-based artist came into the possession of about 1,000 small vintage images ideally suited to visual modification. They date from the 1950s and were clearly intended as promotional collectibles (\u201coriginally produced for advertising purposes by the margarine company \u2018Sannella,\u2019 picturing the adventures of various German men,\u201d according to Brandtner). Under his facebook screen name, Geronimo Finn<\/a>, he invited collage artists from around the world to accept three cards of his choosing and to collaborate with him by 1) providing a finish to one of his starts, 2) offering one start for him to finish, and 3) completing one solo collage. A book documenting all or many of the resulting artworks is an open possibility, but it is difficult for anyone to predict how long the project will last before \u201cGeronimo\u201d pulls the ripcord.<\/p>\n

For the \u201cfinish,\u201d I embedded an aesthetically integrated, but out-of-context, factory town-scape as subtle support for Kevin\u2019s armed observer. By contrast, my \u201cstart\u201d is a hyper-macabre parody of aboriginal stereotypes, and I look forward to his response. For the assigned solo treatment, I could not resist perpetuating the microscopic-creature-as-monster clich\u00e9.
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Untitled (Zebraville)<\/em><\/strong>
\na collage collaboration by J A Dixon and K Brandtner
\n(card selection and start by Brandtner, finish by Dixon)
\nSammelwerk Afrika, Bild 33: Zebras und Gnus her Tr\u00e4nke
\n13.6 x 9.7 centimeters<\/p>\n

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Untitled (Baby Head Stew)<\/em><\/strong>
\na collage collaboration by J A Dixon and K Brandtner
\n(card selection by Brandtner, start by J A Dixon, finish to come)
\nSammelwerk Australien, Bild 79: Erdo fen der Maoris
\n13.7 x 9.8 centimeters<\/p>\n

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Untitled (Mighty Mite)<\/em><\/strong>
\na collage collaboration by J A Dixon and K Brandtner
\n(card selection by Brandtner, solo completion by Dixon)
\nSammelwerk Australien, Bild 52: Auf dem Barriereriff
\n9.8 x 13.7 centimeters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cConnecting unexpected people, places, objects, and ideas provides a huge boost to your imagination. You can practice this skill by using provocative metaphors, interacting with those outside your normal circles, building on existing ideas, and finding inspiration in unlikely places.\u201d \u2014 Tina Seelig   As the international cross-pollination of collage artists advances into the new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,18,170,93],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5903"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5932,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5903\/revisions\/5932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}