Collective creativity : : collaborative work in the sciences, literature and the arts / / edited by Gerhard Fischer and Florian Vassen.

• Author: Sydney German Studies Symposium
• TeilnehmendeR: Fischer, Gerhard.; Vassen, Florian.; Sydney German Studies Symposium (2009)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 148; Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 148.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (369 p.)
• Notes: Papers presented at the Sydney German Studies Symposium 2009, organized by the Department of German Studies at the University of New South Wales and held at the Goethe Institute Sydney from 23 to 26 July 2009.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Subversion of Creativity and the Dialectics of the Collective /; From the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism to the Creative Economy: Reflections on the New Spirit of Art and Capitalism /; Is Simulation a Collective Creative Practice? /; Collective Creative Processes in Behavioural Studies: Community Theatre as an Agency of Political Research and Action /; Old Know-how for New Challenges: East Germans and Collective Creativity? Two Anthropological Case Studies /; From Collective Creativity to Authorial Primacy: Gottsched’s Reformation of the German Theatre from a Mediological Point of View /; Synergetic Art Production: Choreography in Classical and Neo-classical Discourse on Performative Arts /; Kindred Spirits: Collective Explorations of Individuality in the Classical Period (Goethe, Schiller, Wilhelm von Humboldt) /; Keeping it in the Family? The Creative Collaborations of Sophie and Dorothea Tieck /; Vision around 1800: The Panorama as Collective Artwork /; DEXA-Dan: Embedding the Corporeal Body /; Bridging the Two Cultures: The Fragility of Interdisciplinary Creative Collaboration /; Neo Rauch: Post-socialist Vision, Collective Memories /; Creative Co-productions: Alexander Kluge’s Television Experiments /; Creativity Meets Circulation: Internet Videos, Amateurs and the Process of Evolution /; From Avant-Garde to Capitalistic Teamwork: Collective Writing between Subversion and Submission /; Travelling Companions: Cook’s Second Voyage in the Writing of Georg and Johann Reinhold Forster /; The Romancing of Collective Creativity: The ‘Bitterfelder Weg’ in Brigitte Reimann’s Letters and Diaries /; Intertextuality as Mandatory Collective Creativity? Textual Interconnection in Klaus Hoffer’s Novel Bei den Bieresch /; Community in the Translation/Response Continuum: Poetry as Dialogic Play /; From Author to Spectator: Collective Creativity as a Theatrical Play of Artists and Spectators /; Spotlight on the Audience: Collective Creativity in Recent Documentary and Reality Theatre from Australia and Germany /; Fluid Collectives of Friendly Strangers: The Creative Politics of Difference in the Reality Theatre of Rimini Protokoll and Urban Theatre Projects /; Transcultural Gestures: Collective Engagement in Theatre, Practice of Separation and Intermedial Crystallizations /; Call for Papers: The Sydney German Studies Symposium 2009 /; Contributors.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 1282991760; 9786612991769; 904203274X
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Gerhard Fischer and Florian Vassen.

Collective Creativity combines complex and ambivalent concepts. While ‘creativity’ is currently experiencing an inflationary boom in popularity, the term ‘collective’ appeared, until recently, rather controversial due to its ideological implications in twentieth-century politics. In a world defined by global cultural practice, the notion of collectivity has gained new relevance. This publication discusses a number of concepts of creativity and shows that, in opposition to the traditional ideal of the individual as creative genius, cultural theorists today emphasize the collaborative nature of creativity; they show that ‘creativity makes alterity, discontinuity and difference attractive’. Not the Romantic Originalgenie , but rather the agents of the ‘creative economy’ appear as the new avant-garde of aesthetic innovation: teams, groups and collectives in business and science, in art and digital media who work together in networking clusters to develop innovative products and processes. In this book, scholars in the social sciences and in cultural and media studies, in literature, theatre and visual arts present for the first time a comprehensive, inter- and transdisciplinary account of collective creativity in its multifaceted applications. They investigate the intersections of artistic, scientific and cultural practice where the individual and the collective merge, come together or confront each other.