Collaboration or Cooperation?

In most art and architecture collaborations, the relationship between architect and artist is usually defined by the division of the project into its component parts, ie. the building, the external works, the artwork, etc..
Theory describes this sort of relationship as cooperation (Roschelle & Teasley 1995) 
"Cooperative work is accomplished by the division of labour among participants, as an activity where each person is responsible for a portion of the problem solving."
Collaboration is different. Collaboration is a "coordinated, synchronous activity that is the result of a continued attempt to construct and maintain a shared conception of a problem."
Or, more simply, the "mutual engagement of participants in a coordinated effort to solve the problem together."

Therefore I leave it up to you to decide which I have done, on most occasions I have collaborated as we have shared the same problem!

Reproductions - visit www.reproductions.org.uk
Wayne Stefano and Emma Porch (Hardy)

This collaborative artists project was set up in October, which is still currently running. It is a participation of real images gathered from the public and made into a community of others. It i a wed-based project, made up of dialogues with a anonymous other and from this data collected throuugh images and vox-pops a public event took place were as part of reproductions we performed to the public through this event by not giving out our identity, by wearing masks. 


Being Anonymous - visit www.nonymous.org.uk

Emma Hardy and Wayne Stefano

This collection is in the forms of a monologue/dialogue, which is now in the forms of e-mails. This started in October 2007 when I started to critique a fellow art students work. The conversations are an exchange of knowledge, critical parodies of images and opinions on different issues within art. Being anonymous, it gives a chance for language to be exchanged not in the same way as the everyday conversations between people who know one-another, but through a non- identifiable source - e-mails. By distancing oneself like this challenges everything we know about people, gestures, pleasantries and even eye contact. Without these we become new beings to one another, challenging one another's knowledge and engaging in art through another media, which may not be seen as art to others.

This collaboration has taken on many different forms - these conversations will be represented through volumes, images, postcards and an audio guide to developments and questioning the truth and authenticity. This will be exhibited this year in the degree show 08 UOP.

For more information/ to join visit the offical site of works at : http://www.nonymous.org.uk

Cake and Fruit Performance
Emma Porch and Helen Park

This collaborative performance, was made up of two elements - one was a performance and the other was a set of tasks to see as much of Berlin within a day. Whilst doing this at every fourth stop cake and fruit had to be collected as evidence of stopping in these places.
The reason for collaborating with artist Helen Park is we both share a strong interest in food, and our favourites being fruit and cake, these may seem a contradiction and that is why we love both of them, as we feel we could not live without either - as long as we have a piece of fruit after a naughty piece of cake we don't feel so guilty!

Once these tasks were completed, we got up the morning we flew out of Berlin and sat in the middle of the canteen and ritualistically set it up as though we were having our normal breakfast, orange juice, plates knifes and forks. The final part of this was to demonstrate to others our passion for these foods, without using verbal language as a way of communicating, we copied each others body language into the order in which theses foods were eaten with the sound of our passion for food becoming over- bearing and uncomfortable for the audience at times.


This performance carried on until we had eaten a piece of everything in on the table, testing each others appetites and stretching the limit of how much we could eat.


This collaborative Performance was restaged and addressed at the opening night of the Berlin Exhibition in October of that year.

Parliament Street, Exeter, 2006
- Emma Porch (Hardy), Wayne Stefano, Lyn Cooke, Helen Park, Callum Bell, Giles, Alan Jones
- Working in association with the Curator of Station, Bristol, Louise Short.


Challenging the space around us, through a collaborative ideology of Parades. Parliament Street offered us a way through to the public, yet set boundaries for us, as each individual could not carry out our participatory events which happened. None of these were planned, we would just turn up with what ever we felt reflected the idea of a parade taking place. Through researching the street and area we learnt that a story surround Parliament Street as there was a race through it between a fat person and a thin person - the size of the street was different in width. So we used this and other historical events which took place within the surround areas to choreograph our own interpretations of what parade symbolised for us as a collaborative group of artists. We then turned this street from a quite forgotten place into a loud, busy parade, which the public became fascinated and attractive to, heightening the atmosphere within such a small street.
Once the documentation of all events were edited down, we re-constructed the street as an installation piece, and was shown at the University Of Plymouth, Exeter Campus, Earl Richards Road , on the  16th June 06.