“Advance/Retreat: three experiments in transdisciplinary collaboration”
Brad Haylock, Mark Richardson and Suzie Attiwill
7 Nov → 29 Nov 2008

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.

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Brad Haylock

Mark Richardson

Dr Suzie Attiwill is Associate Dean Interior Design in the School of Architecture and Urban Design, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Since 1991, her practice has involved exhibition design, curatorial work, writing and teaching. Projects pose questions of interior and interiority in relation to contemporary conditions of living, inhabitation, subjectivity, pedagogy and praxis. Her creative practice research is conducted through a practice of designing with a curatorial inflection attending to arrangements (and rearrangements) of spatial, temporal and material relations. Previous roles include: artistic director of Craft Victoria (1996-99) and editor of Craft and guest editor, Craft and Design Enquiry; board member/chair of West Space Artist Led Initiative (2006-10); chair of IDEA (Interior Design/Interior Architecture Educators Association, 2006-12) and executive editor of the IDEA Journal (2014-15).