spondere : a collaborative collective heidi zednik & alicia bailey


spondere is the result of a series of events. It's a collaborative collective born of conversations, friendship, experimentation and art. to explain spondere is to look at the whole -individual art projects, collaborations, movement and time. alicia and i founded spondere to formalize a common voice and our trust in collaboration.


dorland mountain arts colony (CA), 1995
A tree fell on my van and I met Alicia.
I went to the art colony as a writer and ended up returning to painting.
The storm was the beginning of many changes in my life.
One of them was the friendship with Alicia		  

 

 

jump (1997) and skinning blue (1998)
Alicia's artist books, Jump and Skinning Blue are not collaborations, but they are a significant part of the history of Spondere. In Skinning Blue (1997), Alicia incorporated sections of my short story by the same name. The following year, she used selections of my other texts in Jump
notes from the underground, 2001
It was the found objects that started the underground conversations. For me, it was the handwritten dictionary and the old photographs, the odd lawnmower parts and old glass... continued
conversations from the underground, 2004
After Denver we knew there would be a continuation of the first collaboration, just as we knew the continuation would be more conceptual. Again, because of the constraints of distance, we began Conversations by shipping packages back and forth... continued
RE, 2004
In our third installation, we moved away from the concrete exploration of objects. In RE we experimented with the layering of reflective and transparent planer surfaces. RE was installed as one work at Edge Gallery... continued
  Alphabet of desire, 2004 In 2004
I received a Regional Artist Project Grant to partially fund the printing of a limited edition of artist books titled alphabet of desire. The original print/poem project by the same title was created in early 2004. The collaborative aspect of this project is the designing and binding of the artist books. I will print the pages in Asheville, under the technical specifications of Alicia's book design. We will then meet in one location to bind the books.