Benjamin Buckʼs creative practice combines collaboration and interpretive documentation. He addresses the complexities of authenticity, identity and authorship. Focus of the work is on the experience of the process and not the resulting products. Collaborations provide opportunity to experiment in a variety of ways including sound, installation, video and performance with other practitioners. In this way of working process is seen as an end in itself.
The generation of collaborative experience directly influences the interpretive documentation Buck creates. His alias for documentation is Reverend Tate. By using an alias and working with other practitioners his practice subtly questions the value and precedence of individual authorship as a product of neo-liberal, capitalistic and narcissistic ideals.
The direct link between collaboration and documentation of the original event reflects Bucks experience rather than being a literal record. Hence the documentation provides new experiences and opportunities to share.
The generation of collaborative experience directly influences the interpretive documentation Buck creates. His alias for documentation is Reverend Tate. By using an alias and working with other practitioners his practice subtly questions the value and precedence of individual authorship as a product of neo-liberal, capitalistic and narcissistic ideals.
The direct link between collaboration and documentation of the original event reflects Bucks experience rather than being a literal record. Hence the documentation provides new experiences and opportunities to share.