This episode centers on collaboration, not as a creative ideal, but as a practical structure shaped by roles, labor, expectations, and authorship.

https://www.gandy.cc/art

https://dared.art/

The conversation moves through questions of hierarchy, responsibility, and ownership: who initiates a project, who maintains it, and how uneven labor or unclear roles generate tension over time. Rather than framing collaboration as inherently positive, the discussion treats it as a system that requires planning, boundaries, and explicit agreements in order to remain sustainable.

Topics addressed include:

The difference between participation, contribution, and authorship

Why unclear roles produce ego conflicts and resentment

Collaboration between artists versus collaboration with brands or institutions

Planning, metrics, and structure as forms of care rather than control

Success defined as skill development and continuity, not visibility or scale

The episode also reflects on why many artists prefer working alone, and why collaboration in visual art often fails where other disciplines (such as music) have clearer hierarchies and conventions. This is not a guide to collaboration, but a record of thinking through its limits in real time.

📍 Recorded in Berlin

🎙️ Long-form conversation, minimally edited

Gandy and Dared discuss artist visibility from their Berlin Studio.

Gandy: https://www.gandy.cc/art

Dared: https://dared.art/

This is not a debate or an argument. It is a recorded moment of thinking between artists attempting to articulate standards for their own work.

📍 Recorded in Berlin

🎙️ Minimal intervention, conversational structure

This episode documents a conversation centered on the question of truth in art, not as authenticity branding, but as method, intention, and consequence.

Gandy: https://www.gandy.cc/art

Dared: https://dared.art/

Moving through museums, painting, graffiti, stand-up comedy, and conceptual practice, the discussion examines how honesty operates differently across contexts, and why certain work feels inert while other work carries weight. The conversation resists conclusions, focusing instead on how artists orient themselves toward making without defaulting to performance, moral signaling, or visibility.

Themes include:

Truth versus honesty as artistic strategies

Intention, ego, and authorship

Cultural context and German directness

Public work, graffiti, and responsibility

Fear-driven production versus commitment-driven practice

This is not a debate or an argument. It is a recorded moment of thinking between artists attempting to articulate standards for their own work.

📍 Recorded in Berlin

🎙️ Minimal intervention, conversational structure