Collaborative practice, whether between artists , curators or disciplines is something of particular relevance at the moment, with ever more need to be working together to create opportunities. Collaboration questions ideas of authorship and ego, as well as an interaction within the public sphere, and in this edition, we aim to give an introduction to this expansive and wide ranging field.

They are Here, are a collaborative and multi-disciplinary practice made up of Helen Walker and Harun Morrison. Helen and Harun answer some questions about their practice, their experience of working together and their current project.

Daisy Teage discovers Planning for Paradise up in the rooftops of Oxford. Organised by Launch Collaborative, this recent exhibition at the Project Room showcased work by four students, sharing authorship to pose the question 'What are the aesthetic trends of protest and social activism today?'

Also referring to this same exhibition, Hannah Newell explores collaboration on a wider scale, discussing protest, and the implications of an interactive society today in her in depth article The Political Interface: How Jacques Ranciere's concept of the distribution of the sensible applies to the aesthetics of contemporary political activism.

In her article Collective most polemic Sophie Risner goes back to the early 20th Century, to give us a colloquial view of collaboration spanning the last 100 years. Risner makes this huge undertaking incredibly concise, considering groups from the Futurists to YBA movement.