n+1 equals

n+1 equals was established in 1999 by artists Charles Anderson and Simone LeAmon.

n+1 equals engaged with a variety of practical, technological and theoretical developments to reconfigure creative modes and work practices.

Conceived of as an interdisciplinary workspace providing a matrix for collaborative practice, research & production, n+1 equals generated a kind of ‘vagrant work’ variously inhabiting the ‘worlds’ of art, industrial design, couture, architecture, landscape and urban design, and the electronic and print media.

A focus of the practice was an exploration of temporal morphologies. Through a critical engagement with landscape/urban design and emergent architectonic/land form n+1 equals, in collaboration with a number of design professions, developed what could be called grounded, performative environments.

Also of particular interest to n+1 equals was the interpretation of objects in the retail and domestic environment. In collaboration with craft practitioners and industry, n+1equals explored the function and application of things which, possessing an undefined ‘use-value’, have the potential to critique production.

In its five years of existence n+1 equals completed a number of award winning projects in the public realm, curated international exhibitions, and launched several products in the fashion environment including Bowling Arm, which has gone on to become an iconic Australian fashion accessory exhibited in design exhibitions in Tokyo and London.