Make Art or Die Trying

Chapter Twelve

Collaborate

TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE.

It’s time to step out of your own world and bring all this together by working with others. In isolation, there’s so little we can achieve. Let’s bin the old idea that we need to be solitary geniuses and embrace the simple fact that, together, in community we are stronger.

This is the bit where everything changes. The idea of making work with others is radical in the way it completely dissolves the idea of the individual artist. No more individual navel gazing—it’s time to form a crew.

STOP. COLLABORATE. LISTEN.

So much of art history is filled with the concept that the singular, ...