sjahssSJAHSSSJAHSS2788-9424https://doi.org/10.47310/sjahss.2021.v01i01.009Collaborative Practice: A Utopian Idea?ArnikaAhldagThis article highlights the practice of Indian artists CAMP who have centrally engaged with workers and working communities and brought them into their practice in important and diverse ways. In most cases in India, the artist collaborates with social/economic inferiors. The idea of collaboration then becomes unidirectional, the artist is doing something ‘for’ someone, at the same time appropriating their knowledge, energy, authenticity to give their work a social value.