Solitary vices

[slightlyfoxed]

Making the young people's music is accepted as often-collaborative (even though one member of a band sometimes carries the others). Creative writing is often assumed to be solitary (even though writing often takes editorial conversations, mutual inspirations, sounding boards etc

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[slightlyfoxed]

Good! I have only dabbled on the edges of performance poetry but I approve of it and its capacity to bend forms, inc. collaboration.

[friend_of_tofu]

Oh, that would be wonderful.

Why don't you put some up as an ART EXPERIMENT? Then make a collage out of the emails you receive?

[danalcapone]

I am really into the idea of collaboration generally at the moment, and have been enjoying and cultivating the positive benefits of sociability. All the "happiness studies" stuff talks endlessly about it's benefits.

I have been reading this dude for work who waxes lyrically about the positive benefits of net enhanced communication: http://www.makingisconnecting.org/

He makes me think that all those hours spent with Barbelith and lolcats were worthwhile as they've led to some enduring friendships. i could and would argue in fact, that Barbelith was the place I learnt to write - in that posting on threads was the first time I'd ever felt really committed to writing as an act.

There's a book called The Wisdom of Crowds which is all about this.

The whole solitary artist thing is, in part at least, cock. Most of the artists I know seem to spend a lot of time hanging out with each other and I'm sure there work and art benefits thereby.