Artistic Bedfellows is an international interdisciplinary collection of historical essays, critical papers, case studies, interviews, and comments from scholars and practitioners that shed new light on the growing field of collaborative art. This collection examines the field of collaborative art broadly, while asking specific questions with regard to the issues of interdisciplinary and cultural difference, as well as the psychological and political complexity of collaboration. The diversity of approach is needed in the current multimedia and cross disciplinarily world of art. This reader is designed to stimulate thought and discussion for anyone interested in this growing field and practice.

Ghosts and vampires, zombies and werewolves. A mirror with danger at its heart. A child is delighted to discover she is a witch, and a village disappears under a fairy curse. Then a selkie finds her way back to the waves, before a blood moon rises, bringing its own secrets ... Full of the spooky and the gothic, fairy tales and poetry, this is a brilliant and intriguing collection where nothing and no one is as they seem. Bringing together authors from across the UK: featuring Penny Ayers, Michael Bartlett, Patrick Booth, Amaris Chase, Holly Anne Crawford, Ivor Daniel, Amanda Jane Davies, Daphne Denley, J. J. Drover, Harriet Hitchen, Rebecca McDowall, Jane Phillips, Angela Reddaway, Joe Robson, Margaret Royall, with illustrations by Lorna Gray

Have ewe herd? ‘Stuck in the Middle with Ewe: or how I lost my heart and found my flock in Northern Ireland’, is a chaotic, funny and poignant tale, recounting how an English journalist fell in love with a Northern Irish farmer, his sheep and a new way of life. Holly Crawford has finally found the man of her dreams. This is good. Unfortunately he lives 500 miles away on the other side of the Irish Sea. This is bad. Never one to do things by halves, Holly decides there’s only one thing for it: she will marry him (during a pandemic) and relocate to his homeland. Having swapped deadlines for dairies and suits for Wellington boots, she’s soon causing chaos as she encounters cantankerous cows, riotous rams and cute lambs while finding out just what it takes to be a farmer’s wife. She has one husband, 200 sheep and not a clue.

Humor: A long narrative collaged poem from instructions about life from Adam and Eve, health insurance forms, your remote control from your television set, Nixon's instructions on why his daughters should not campaign at a museum, nuclear remote handling manual, instructions for events on a cruise ship and other texts. Runner up in many recognized poetry contests. The entire text was performed at the Lakeside Theatre, University of Essex in 2011.

Selected photographs from Hyphens, Five Senses, a performative installation project by Holly Crawford. Photographs were taken at the Photo NY and Photo SF. The photographs are not staged. They are immediate response after asking if I could take image of one of their five senses. How do you connect to the world? What is your strongest or weakest sense?

A conceptual art and art criticism project by Holly Crawford. The text/poems are what she overheard, and wrote down as quickly as possible while standing next to people in art museums, galleries, public art installations, and art fairs over several years. Photograph by Holly Crawford, 2011.

Artist's book/visual poetry of found punctuation from Clement Greenberg's 1939 article Avant-Garde and Ktisch and other material, such as the punctuation from poets (Keats, cummings, Pound, Stein and others) as inspiration for these minimal implied narrative pieces. Essay by Peter Frank.

Artist's book project of found narrative poetry from many different sources, father's diary, NYT wedding announcement pages, university alumni material, Clement Greenberg article, and other material.

The Mouse and the Duck are celebrities created by Disney through its new art form, the animated cartoon. Using various outlets including mass-media, television, and theme parks, Disney made the Mouse an icon of corporate success and American culture. From Pop art to the present day, more than a hundred artists have incorporated the Mouse's image, humor, and nostalgia into their work. HOW AND WHY? Attached to the Mouse is the first art history analyzing use of Disney imagery by such contemporary artists as Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Warhol, Chagoya, Thiebaud, Helnwein, Boltanski, Dion, and Pensato. This book explores the impact of Disney, including artists' economic and psychological motivations, on contemporary art. Links to: Author's Website and Author's Blog for Attached to the Mouse