Crafting Collaboration
| type | artistic research |
| date | 2026 |
| erik lindeborg | author |
| diana butucariu | author |
The bedroom window overlooks a field of grass with a slowly collapsing barn. Once or twice per year, depending on the weather, the tenant farmer cuts the grass for silage. Apart from that, the field manages itself.
During spring flood, cranes stilt through the mud. In autumn, a moose with calves lumbers across the field toward the lake. The neighbor says he saw a wolf once. A pair of binoculars sit by the window.
At the far end of the field is a swampy grove of aspen and birches—junipers where the ground is dry. Waders, seabirds and raptors make the grove their home. In the early morning, songbirds fill it with their calls.
The field is bisected by an embankment where people walk their dogs. In the past, narrow-gauge rail ran there, taking timber and iron from the interior down to the coast. When the wind is right, a faint ring of church bells or the whining brakes of a freight train indicate the way into town. Beyond the lake, the landscape rises to the west, a row of windmills spinning slowly on the ridge.
crafting collaboration is an article for a forthcoming special issue of the journal FormAcademic. in the text, erik lindeborg and diana butucariu revisit collaborations from the last fifteen years. the effort goes beyond documentation, reconstituting previous work as a research archive—dynamic, reflective, and generative. projects originally conceived as events, installations, exhibitions — intense but ephemeral presences — are reanimated through writing, to generate new insights in the present.