12 Sound Artists...

Art & Fear: Observations on the perils (and rewards) of artmaking [book], David Bayles & Ted Orland, 2001.

Bomb [magazine].

The Choreographic Mind [video], interview with Susan Rethorst, 2010.

The Creative Habit: Learn it and Use it for Life [book], Twyla Tharp, 2006.

Creativity: The Perfect Crime [book], Philippe Petit, 2014.

Endless Composition [video], Jozef Frucek, 2014.

Graphic Scores: [website]

Hegarty on Creativity: There are no Rules [book], John Hegarty, 2014.

How to have great ideas: A guide to creative thinking [book]John Ingledew, 2016.

In Terms of Performance [website], PEW Center for Art and Heritage.

Journal Project from School Book 2 [book], Goat Island.

Looking at composition is like painting the golden Gate Bridge: 86 Aspects of Composition [document], Mike Vargas, 2003.


Learning to love you more [website]

Making: By Tim Ingold [book], 2013

Motion Bank (website)

On Making a Scriptless Film [video], Mike Leigh, 2009.

Participation [book], Claire Bishop, 2006.

Performance Research [journal].

Picture This [book], Molly Bang, 2016.

Planes of Composition: Dance, Theory, and the Global [book], editor Andre Lepecki, 2010.

Projects Class Cards- David Askevold [website]

(Re)Educating the Senses: Multimodal Listening, Bodily Learning, and the Composition of Sonic Experiences [read online], Steph Ceraso.

Some thoughts on teaching performance art- by Marilyn Arsem [website]

Sparks of Genius [book], Michele & Robert Bernstein, 2001.

Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told you About Being Creative [book]Austin Kleon, 2012.

Textile prompt - one promt for 9 artists

The Shape of Content [book], Ben Shahn, 1992.

The Viewpoints Book: A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition [document], Anne Bogart & Tina Landau, 2004.

Ubuweb: Project samples from many diciplines [website]

What, how and where [website]

Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art [publisher].

You Are An Artist: Assignments to Spark Creation, [book], Sarah Urist Green, 2020.

Welcome to mapping collaboration, a toolbox for workshopping and creating across disciplines...

In spite of a long history of interdisciplinary creation, from our earliest recorded arts to our present moment, artistic pedagogy has created divisions between disciplines. This has left artists in a "post-Babel" condition where we don't share the same language and definitions. It’s also encouraged artists to develop practices for devising, creating and composing work that are distinct to their disciplines.

The inspiration for this project came from faculty and students at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts where BFA, MFA and PhD programs in Dance, Theatre Production and Design, Visual Art, Film, and Music and Sound all work together in studio settings and playfully experiment with processes of art-making.

We wanted to create a database of projects, assignments and theory that we collect inside the studio and from research happening in other places. We are curious about how we collaborate and how structures reoccur, translate and deviate from one discipline to another.

Composition is central to these processes and offers a base for our approaches and experiments. We are excited about what our students are doing and inspired by the new languages in contemporary art and performance we continue to see develop.

︎︎︎select a category above to build assignments, learn more about how artists process ideas across disciplines and to create a collaborative process of your own

︎︎︎these tools are collected and used in workshops and classes; some are resources from artists; some are quotes about art-making and how bodies think and listen; others are ideas to expand and disrupt your own training and processes.  


︎︎︎Each idea is intentially short- and not meant to be executed as written, but to be adapted to your own practice and specific project/context. Some may be taken in parts or combined with others to spark new ways of training and making together.

︎︎︎submit your own ideas and tools so we can keep building this site!