Work created collaboratively

Drawing is as much as a tool for envisioning as it is for illustrating and describing. It goes like this...
-Caveman or woman sits on a boulder.
-The boulder rolls, man or woman notices that it has moved some feet from it's original position and intuits that there may be a way to harness that movement and save energy.
-Then noticing that the boulder doesn't move at its axis point he/she draws an imaginary line through the centre and the axle is invented.
- after that line has been drawn, the axle can be built- but not before.

So... drawing is instrumental always just a tool for envisioning a new order of things. One that has been fetishised by artists, art lovers and art historians. It is the use to which it is put, utilitarian or metaphysical, and the context in which it is produced that determines whether a drawing has any artistic or cultural significance.

So in this instance (creating a Complexual work) a drawing may be a map or an architectural drawing (in the broadest definition of the word) of the work processes of the emergent group's activities.

Perhaps a complexual drawing, created collaboratively, will be subversive and powerful enough in its intentions - by subverting the old (very old) ideas of artistic validity lying in the realms of individual uniqueness, talent, genius etc- to challenge us and create a whole new aesthetic out of the interactions, relations and emergent meanings between us early 21st century artists, scientists and philosophers.


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