Stuart Tait (AKA Stuart Milgram, Winston Wells, The Mule, and Northern Paper Wasp) has practiced mainly as a collaborative artist since graduating from Coventry University in 2000. His main practice has been as part of the collective AAS, but he has also collaborated with other artists as part of audio collective Insectoid, the Zero Point Collaboration, the Red Line Group, and Reactor. AAS has a central group of four artists who administrate the group, but includes other artists who become part of AAS on a project-by-project basis. It is both a collaborative group and a mutating, experimental artwork in its own right. He has also been part of several other less formal collaborations, including with Plastique Fantastique, Parfyme, Henrik Schrat, and Calum F Kerr. His practice-based Ph.D., ‘Becoming Multiple: Collaboration in Contemporary Art Practice’ (2009), studied historical avant-gardes as varieties of collaborative formation and drew comparison with contemporary practices. The thesis drew on concepts from continental philosophy and sociology to develop the new concept of ‘molecular collaboration’, which develops a poststructuralist anarchist approach to collaboration.
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