Collaborations with Laterally Creative
Laterally Creative welcomes enquiries on collaborative projects with writers, film makers, visual and performing artists. Collaborations are opportunities to extend artistic practices and expressions, and to explore insights from the experience. Laterally Creative has engaged in collaborative projects in film, theatre and performing arts. How? Story development, composing soundscapes, directing, creating multimedia installations, photographing and film-making. Two projects profiled on this site demonstrate what is possible through creative collaboration.Contact Laterally Creative.
red hat
Red Hat was a film and theatre project featuring Playback Theatre with the Sunshine Coast Playback Theatre Company in Australia. The documentary film of the performance was later screened at the 10th Annual Playback Theatre Festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 2007. The photograph shows three performers left to right; Anna Heriot, Zjamal Xanitha and Adam Cashmore-Brooke re-enacting a scene during the filming in the Black Box Studio at S.C.A.I.P, Queensland, Australia.
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everywhere that mary went - experimental improv-film
The second project was the film, Everywhere that Mary Went, produced by Screenbitch.com. The project was experimental, and performances and filming was improvisational. This film was screened at S.C.A.I.P, Queensland, Australia.
indigenous ephemerality- art soundscape PROJECT
This project is currently underway. Imagine a natural setting as the canvas, two urban black creative practitioners, one Australian aboriginal artist and one Afro-Australian soundscape artist collaborate... Read more...
PROJECT 24
When is the creative piece finished? What is lost in establishing permanence and individualism in the creative process? How is the "place" gifted in collaboration?
Project 24 engages two black creative practitioners, one Australian Aboriginal artist (Murray Clan Gamilaraay and Yeeralaraay Nations) and one Afro-Australian (Fante') committing to a collaborative exploration ready to respond, recall, re-enact, re-create. We're open to the journey. ... Read more...
sequential collaborative creativity theory
Project 24 tests P.D. Casely-Hayford's sequential collaborative creativity theory. Sequential collaborative creativity occurs when the collaboration has an unknown and undefined outcome. The creative improvisation heightens and keeps artists engaged in the process resulting in a democratization of collaboration. An artistic conversation of "speaking" and "listening" or "call" and "response" takes place during this process. This is sequential collaborative creativity. Instead of artists being locked into a political process where one artist or preset theme dominates the participants' experience, sequential collaborative creativity sets up an essential detachment for those involved to set outcomes. When the outcome is unknown, the work is no longer anchored to a centralized idea or theme. Sequential creative collaboration frees participants and unlocks potentials through its improvisational process... Read more...
Women of Color - Writers Worldwide
is sharing articles and collaborating with Laterally Creative. Currently our collaboration involves providing a platform on this website to showcase their current projects and emerging and established writers. Read more...
If every story changes culture, and everyone experiences, perceives and expresses culture in different ways, imagine what is possible when we collaborate? If you would like to collaborate on projects, e-mail now with details of your project and experience.
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Links: Writers' organizations, authors, creative africans and diaspora, special thanks, acknowledgements. Read more...
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