ABSTRACT
This chapter describes an academic context where an integrated arts project takes place, engaging students and teachers in arriving at a common object of experience. It draws on the voices of the teachers and the students to discuss the dynamic process of creative collaboration and present some of the final thoughts that may contribute to further understanding of collaboration in integrated arts projects. Whilst Cage's piano piece stayed firmly at the centre of the work, it may well have been a work of literature, a painting, a poem, a simple idea, or even the very concrete production of a previously composed piece of musical theatre or opera. The students decide together with their literature, drama, music and visual arts teachers that they will work with the Gin Tonic Essays by the Portuguese surrealist Mario Henrique Leiria, who was the part of the Lisbon Surrealist Movement.
