Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each described working relation by what it actually is.
Groups: Assistance · Collaboration · Commission
- Fabricated stretcher
- Sized publisher brief
- Duo co-equal creation
- Artist directs aide
- Hospital-briefed art
- Equal joint authors
Hints
- Two of the six involve a brief set by someone who is not making the work.
- In two of them the deciding is genuinely shared.
Show the answer
Assistance: Artist directs aide, Fabricated stretcher
Collaboration: Equal joint authors, Duo co-equal creation
Commission: Hospital-briefed art, Sized publisher brief
Why
The distinction that matters is who decides, not who does the physical work. An assistant may make every mark on the canvas and still be assisting; a collaborator may make none and still be collaborating. Writing this down at the start is the cheapest way to avoid the commonest ethical failure in a student project.
Practise Multidisciplinary Processes
The app has 6 more questions on this lesson, and keeps your place in the course. Painting I is free to start.
More questions on Multidisciplinary Processes
- Why do multidisciplinary projects fail at the interfaces rather than in the making? Select every statement…
- Arrange these expansions of painting in the order they happened.
- Arrange the stages of an interdisciplinary production in the order they must be settled.
- The chain of five tasks runs 12, 5, 3, 8 and 2 days in sequence. A second person halves the 12-day task. By…
- A student's collaboration with a composer fails on installation day because the sound file will not play on…
- Assistance and collaboration are structurally distinct modes of working rather than points on a scale of…