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We are not only connecting between artists, our collaborative project aims to create a strong connection with the audience, valuing the importance of their participation and presence.

The importance shifts from the resulting work to the creative process defined by the set of its actors. This could lead to an assertion that, in this type of procedural art, the work is not anything but a concrete answer to a problem, more or less complex, necessary to produce this creative dialogue.

A sincere equal environment should allow the development of knowledge and tools that contribute to the 'empowerment' of the group to which these efforts are directed.

Finally, it is important to stress the fact that collaborative art projects not only shy away from the emotional aspects of learning, but also foster them to allow the efficient development of a network of relationships between members of different groups that coexist in a given social context.

Many people would agree that we are moving away from the age of the individual and into a new era where a sense of community is assuming greater importance.

According to David Feldman, a psychologist from Tufts University, the central theme of the twenty- first century will involve learning how to find a balance between individuality and social connectedness. He believes that we have “pushed the theme of individuality to its limits” and need to discover “the essential role that relationship, participation, reciprocity, membership, and collaboration” have in human development (cited in John-Steiner, 2000, p. xii).

Warren Bennis, professor of business administration at the University of Southern California and Patricia Ward Biederman (1997) echo these ideas, saying, “Cooperation and collaboration grow more important every day. A shrinking world in which technological and political complexity increase at an accelerating rate offers fewer and fewer arenas in which individual action suffices” (p. 1).

Translating these ideas into the field of art, critic Suzi Gablik (1995) says, “There is a distinct shift in the locus of creativity from the autonomous, self-contained individual to a new kind of dialogical structure that frequently is not the product of a single individual but is the result of a collaborative and interdependent process” (p.76).