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Resource ID
21
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Contributed by
The February Journal
Accessibility - Extended Description
The following is a description of the overall constellation shown in the map "Collaborators Dance." Each of the colorful rivers or nerve-like structures on the map refer to a particular collaborative constellation. The names of the individuals involved are indicated at the root-like beginnings of each structure. The choice for this kind of organically swinging or meandering shapes to visualize human movement through space and time comes from a desire to move away from Western conceptions of flat space and linear time. Instead of the predominant idea that human beings can be shown as dots on a map, this map suggests that the trajectories of human beings may also be visualized as rivers flowing into one another, thereby troubling a sense of singular subjectivity that is expressed in statements such as ‘one’s work or his work or my work’ (Moten and El-Hadi 2008, original emphases). In the course of the different tributaries flowing into one another, it becomes hard to tell who is behind what work of art.
Other
archive, collaboration, mapping, surrealism, avant-garde, black radical tradition, Léon-Gontran Damas, Robert Desnos
Named person(s)
moses märz
Country
France, French Guyana
Date
09 October 2025
Credit
Moses März
Caption
Figure 1. Moses März, Collaborators Dance, 2025. © All rights reserved, courtesy of the author.
Notes
This image has been published in Issue 05 ‘The Author Is Dead, Long Live Co-Authors! Collaborative Work in the Humanities,’ edited by The February Journal.