Banter
These collages are the collaborative work of Tim van Laar and Barbara Kendrick. We gave it the title of Banter because we think of it as a visual conversation in which we send work back and forth, without verbal comment. But this is not necessarily a polite conversation, given our differences both philosophically and in our material practices. It results in lively argument. Decisions are open to question. We were surprised, annoyed, disturbed, and exhilarated. These 10 collages were done during a residency at VCCA. Our intention is to keep adding until we have enough for an exhibition.
As much as we are interested in the making of the collages, we are also interested in the questions raised by the act of collaboration: How does collage, itself a model of uncertainty, offer a means of examining collaborative uncertainty? How does collaborating amplify the uncertainties? What benefit would this amplification have? Does collaborative collage model, is it analogous to, other processes of communication? How does the act of collaboration affect the certainties/uncertainties of representation itself?