If we let it, the practice of writing exposes the multiplicity of threads which twine and entwine and tangle to form changing selves. COLLABORATION is at the centre of writing: the practice of writing is a process of collaboration with oneself.
The writer may accept a range of involvements with others from cooperation, to complex interaction, to a more complete collaboration where even the artists involved don't know who did what. Through such experience, it may be possible to consciously "auto collaborate"
1) An outline of collaborations in which Lawrence Upton has been involved
§ 1975 - 1977 collaborative work in text-sound composition - stereo and quadraphonic tape work based in 2d visual - with Bob Cobbing, alongside solo work @ Fylkingen in Stockholm...
§ & later work with cheek and Fencott - also Stockholm
§ 1976-1978 jgjgjg (Upton, cheek, Fencott) live improv
§ 1978 + live and tape work with cheek + paper-based work
§ 1981 + with Lilian Ward paper and live
§ 90s + collaboration with Bob Cobbing, especially Domestic Ambient Noise + collaborations with Jennifer Pike also - text, sound, space
§ 1997 + collaborations with Alaric Sumner - writing over email + later performance
§ 2001 + collaborations with Jennifer Pike & cris cheek - research at Chisenhale Dance Space, choreography of space
§ 2003 + collaborations with Rory McDermott (additional comment 2004)
§ 2004 + collaborations with John Levack Drever (additional comment 2007)
2) some collaborative publications involving Lawrence Upton
§ Approximate Capacities with Lilian Ward, 1982 Collaborative writing
§ Vivacity February 1982. Reprinted 1988. Now published on Sugar Mule # 7. Text written for possible performance by cris cheek
§ is moving the television with cris cheek, 1978 Collaborative writing
§ in that same vein with cris cheek 1978 Collaborative writing
§ Tales of cristian endurance 1977
§ Syzem by Gilbert Adair with complementary images by Lawrence Upton - forthcoming
§ cluster collaborative vispo with Bob Cobbing and Jennifer Pike
§ duets - collaborative polychrome writing with Bob Cobbing
§ mutate / cantate - collaborative polychrome writing with Bob Cobbing - writers forum, 2001
§ Collaborations for Alaric Sumner with Bob Cobbing forthcoming - previously published online by Riding the Meridian
§ Oi! with Bob Cobbing 2001
§ Curve - with Jennifer Pike & Bob Cobbing Writers Forum, November 2000
§ Game on a line 1st edition: 2000; 2nd edition: forthcoming visual settings of writing by Scott Thurston Later note: reprint of entire sequence in R & K by Lawrence Upton, published by World Visual Poetry, St Petersberg
§ plouk 2000 with Bob Cobbing
§ flong with Bob Cobbing 2000
§ dan diptych with Bob Cobbing
§ Fuming with Bob Cobbing
§ Collaborations for Peter Finch with Bob Cobbing 1997, reprinted December 1998
§ Domestic Ambient Noise ## 1-300 with Bob Cobbing 1994-2000