It seems that there is a lot of collaboration done at a distance these days. I wonder how this is the changing the impact collaborative practices have, not only on the artists or those co-producing but on the impact of the project?

There is certainly a lot more opportunity that comes with collaborating at a distance. The ability to work independently, to a more flexible time scale perhaps? To talk to and connect to other artists in a way that’s less confrontational or at a different pace

When I lived in Dorset and I worked a lot of with Sally Lemsford in person, we were fairly reactive and when we met up in person, I think perhaps, we were well aware of the challenges of time and work and life and we made decisions then and there, and quite often work too!

Now I’m in Gloucester and she is in Worthing we meet up and collaborate in different ways - online and via screen mainly. We do challenge ourselves to find ways to collaborate that are different and use the digital capabilities we both possess to our advantage. This has certainly meant we have played with social media and online residencies more. We are able to reach more people through instagram, especially zine focused artists. But I can’t help but feel those interactions have lost impact in some way or that we are feeling part of a sea of content and other tiny interactions. The punch of the impact and the imprint has faded. How we we get that back through collaborating at a distance? How do we keep interesting conversations going but follow it up in tangible ways, ideally ways in person?