inflection practise

RESEARCH BACKGROUND: Attiwill was one of nine practitioners invited to participate in 'THISNESS': a group exhibition exploring the concept of 'haecceity' by creating works of materiality/immateriality. The practitioners are associated with the Interior Design program at RMIT University which emphasises an 'experimental' and 'phenomenological' approach to spatial design and occupation. The exhibition highlighted compelling approaches in these areas, and serves as a model for the integration of academic research within creative practice. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: The installation 'inflection practise' is the third project in a body of work where Attiwill engages in an installation research practice, as distinct from her curatorial/exhibition design practice), to bring into question concepts of space and the production of subjectivity. Situated within the exhibition and work of her colleagues, her research practice develops potentials that are not the product of phenomenological and Cartesian-centred thinking or the idea of space as a pre-existing given. 'inflection practise' celebrated the practice of interior design as one of surface and colour through manifesting the complexity and significant variety in the colour 'white'. The three projects: 'inflection practise', 'INFLECTION' (West Space) and her Design Hub exhibition 2012 - all worked with white Wattyl paint A5 paint samples but the installations are all situation specific experiments in arrangement, scale and encounter. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: BUS Projects is a prestigious Artist Run Initiative, funded by the Victorian State Government, through Arts Victoria. Exhibition proposals are submitted once a year, peer reviewed and selected by a curatorial board (see http://busprojects.org.au/people/). A catalogue documenting and contextualising the works in the exhibition was also produced.