the space between conference was initiated by the Textile Exchange Project and will be hosted by Curtin University of Technology (http:/www.curtin.edu.au), Faculty of BEAD (http://bead.curtin.edu.au/) (Built Environment Art and Design) at the University’s Bentley campus and other locations in and around Perth, Western Australia.

The Conference

This conference and associated events will provide an international forum for an in-depth exchange of ideas and experiences between artists, curators, academics and theorists and is expected to attract national and international participants from the fields of textiles, art, design and fashion practice.
The conference program will include a range of satellite activities:
- Exhibitions and performances
- Public Art retail project
- Workshops

This comprehensive program of activities will provide a forum for the presentation of new ideas, research and work.
The conference and exhibition program will centre on the new artistic and theoretical potentialities that have emerged as a result of the blurring of the boundaries between art, fashion and textiles. In recent times new, hybrid forms of practice have developed combining elements from fine art, contemporary textiles and fashion design. This process of interdisciplinary synthesis has given rise to modes of artistic expression that elude the restrictions of traditional categorisations based on medium or technique. Today many innovative international artists and designers work in the fluid spaces between the familiar domains of traditional disciplines. the space between provides an opportunity to debate the many issues confronting artists, writers and curators working in these new areas of practice.
Although the final list of topics for discussion will emerge from a dialogue between organisers and participants, we have identified a series of broad thematic areas to offer the initial stimulus for the conference program development – these are outlined in the call for papers & presentations section.