Advance/Retreat: three experiments in transdisciplinary collaboration
7 November – 29 November 2008, opening Thursday 6 November, 6 – 8pm Artist Talk Thursday 27 November
Curated by Brad Haylock and Mark Richardson; featuring three multidisciplinary teams assembled by Suzie Attiwill, Brad Haylock and Mark Richardson
Gallery 1: Mark Richardson, Stephen Garret, Susie Elliott, Simon Disler, Helen Martin, Gina Marich & Tom Rigby Gallery 2: Brad Haylock, Bianca Hester, Symon McVilly & guests Gallery 3: Suzie Attiwill, Brian Scales, Inverted Topology & Warren Taylor
Advance/Retreat comprises three experiments in transdisciplinary collaboration. The project is concerned with limits or boundaries, broadly understood and variously interpreted — as, for example, between disciplines, between art and design, between theory and practice, between analogue and digital methods, between process and product.
Advance/Retreat offers a relatively rare opportunity, namely the possibility of non-prescriptive and non-commercial collaborations between artists and designers. This exhibition brings together three groups of participants from diverse backgrounds, each responding to one of the three galleries of West Space.
A particular emphasis is placed upon the documentation of and reflection upon the collaborative process. The accompanying publication is more than a catalogue of the work on show, but is instead a document of the collective intentions and interests of the three groups, and of those processes, possibilities and tensions unique to collaborative practice that are otherwise frequently veiled.
