We Are...?
We are four
We met thirteen years ago
We are friends, collaborators and participators
We collaborated two years ago on an unpaid project
We did it around our other commitments
We enjoyed working together enough to do it again
We became a Collective
We have different preoccupations and concerns
We are not the same, but
We create a malleable space between us, in which
We can write about the world, editing out our individual voices as we go
We have a narrative
We meet as regularly as we can
We divide the work
We apply to things
We get accepted
We get rejected
We don’t feel this is enough
We ask what is our direction?
We try to contain our interests
We talk about models of collectivism
We are often motivated
We are sometimes enervated
We are always rushed
We spend time we don’t have
We ask why are we doing this?
We ask are we relevant and to whom?
We have different ideas about this
We want different things
We have a name but not an identity
We wonder if this is a problem, for us or for them
We still want to work together (for now)
We propose to come to as many of the BTINE events as we can
We propose to show up
About Glap Collective:
John Hughes, Liz Murray, Simon Rattigan and Mia Taylor work collectively as Glap Collective. We make artworks combining the technologies of social media, online dating and robotics with text, photography and video work. At the intersection between art and writing, with emphasis on how text might exist in a more expanded field, our work is critically engaged with the dissolution of historical distinctions between books, files, and artworks.
Glap Collective’s experimental writing using techniques of role play, online avatars, and fictional personae that derive from montage and mashup. Cutting and pasting commentary from social platforms into Sci-Fi narrative, text and image are rearranged through discursive processes of splitting and joining. As collectively edited and authored artworks, this process poses epistemological questions about platforms of surveillance, art’s social turn, and the experience of reading and writing today.
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We Are...?
Glap Collective:
John Hughes, Liz Murray, Simon Rattigan and Mia Taylor
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