about the project

What happens when a dancer follows a sculptor’s idiosyncratic creative process to make new work?

Or when a painter leaves behind his normal working processes and follows a musician’s personal language of music making?

A group of 10 artists, practicing across a variety of art forms and mediums, are invited to put into words their very own personal process of making art through improvisation.  What happens during this inner process of creative activity?

The artists are then paired up, and their personal process descriptions are swapped. 

Each artist takes their partner’s written process into their own working environment/medium, and uses it as a set of instructions – a launching pad – from which to create new work.

The outcomes of this collaborative project were exhibited in Sydney during October 2011.  See documentation of project outcomes on this website.

Anna Jaaniste was the devisor and co-ordinator of this project.