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Art and Life - discuss?

Posted by Kate Genever on May 18, 2012

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Steves got a new theory "art is always trying to become life and life is always trying to become art" .
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I've been thinking about this all morning and wondering about how it is useful. I'm now collaborating with Richard Steadman -Jones on writing a book and although I've been working with him for a couple of years this feels really different and a bit exciting. I'm not sure why he wants to collaborate with me as he is very clever but I get the feeling he thinks it will be generative - push his thinking in different directions - almost like he sees himself as to situated within his discipline /profession and this new collaboration will liberate a new way of working. He writes a lot with his friend Jess Dubow who is in geography and he described this writing process as - "Truly collaborative we sit together and write each word." I found this really interesting because I'd hope that this is what me and you can do now. We have lots of conflict and difference but we navigate this to get to a point of synergy which we both value. I was thinking about this in...

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