Initiated by Jo Ray and Michael Day and involving eleven Ph.D. researchers based in the fine arts, the ‘Testing Testing’ project aimed to extend discussion about ‘making’ as a mode of enquiry by showing the evolving stages of practice-based research through an exhibition, two publications, and a symposium. http://testingtesting.org.uk 

Exhibiting the unmade object and the process of its unmaking on a mock therapeutic stage for BE│TWEEN, the viewer is invited to participate in the dialogue and to act as witness to the object’s predicament.

Each exhibiting artist wrote a text outlining the research context for their work in Testing Testing, Vol. 1, and a commentary on the dialogues that emerged in Testing Testing, Vol. 2. Contributions to the emergent publications can be found at http://testingtesting.org.uk and include

‘Between’ in Testing Testing: Prologue (Vol.1)

‘A Constructed Fiction’ in Testing Testing: Dilaogue (Vol.2)