“Advance/Retreat”
Brad Haylock, Mark Richardson and Suzie Attiwill
7 Nov → 29 Nov 2008
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.
Gallery 1: Mark Richardson, Stephen Garret, Susie Elliott, Simon Disler, Helen Martin, Gina Marich, Tom Rigby
Gallery 2: Brad Haylock, Bianca Hester, Symon McVilly
Gallery 3: Suzie Attiwill, Brian Scales, Inverted Topology, Warren Taylor
Brad Haylock is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.
Mark Richardson is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.
Suzie Attiwill's practice involves 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.