Thirteenth International Conference on The Arts in Society

Abstract

The Transitory Sound and Movement Collective: Collaborative Art, evaluates the communal process of performance art and the development of a novel improvisational language utilizing technology, music and the moving image. Employing a dialogical language through collective art making, the collective of artists, formed in Houston, Texas consists of sound designer and founder Lynn Lane, with an evolution of filmmakers, musicians, dancers and vocalists. The group rejects established rules of collaboration within the traditional framework of performance. Breaking with the strict interpretation of roles, which historically have created a hyper divide between director, performer, and designer, the collective operates outside the parameter of the shared lens of the written work. Neoteric and transitory, it creates a cross-germination of musical language facilitated by a purely improvisational setting. The approach is a significant and sustaining model in today’s world of reductions in arts funding. With an eye to the future, artistic collectives provide freedom, interpretive performance art and the flexibility of artistic expression absent the constraints of traditional oppressive artistic structures