Criticism The first Discotheque project since its re-launch, '1 and 3' was initially conceived as a critical response to the typical gallery themed open-call exhibition. Euroart Gallery, a relatively little-known but ambitious studio and gallery complex in North London, published a call for work on the theme of their forthcoming show's title: 'About Face'. Anticipating a generally conservative interpretation of the theme amongst other artists, and fully expecting a predominance of wall based art, Discotheque set about developing a more complex, intricate and multi-levelled collaborative project, which would hopefully play off (but without belittling) the more conventional nature of the rest of the show. These expectations were fully realised, and so on this level the project was wholly successful, providing a compellingly interactive centerpiece to an otherwise largely unremarkable exhibition. The three artists involved - Dave Ball, Dædalus, and David McKeran - worked intensively together to coordinate their own individual elements' efficacy within the structure of the project as a whole. The success of this allowed the pursuit of the project's overall ideas in their own unique and individual ways, whilst at the same time offering a critique of notions of creative identity and ownership. Less pleasing was a reported general lack of interaction with the piece on the part of the modest number of gallery visitors - perhaps a result of a habitual reverence of an artwork's "aura", but perhaps also an indication of a perceived over-complexity of the installation. Possibly the "moving-around" aspect of the work - which in itself had an elegance of form and concept - combined with the play of allusions on the Kosuth idea-image-object piece, combined with the responses to the theme of "about face", might have produced a result in which there were simply too many things going on. However the installation had a particularly strong visual presence in the space, and managed to engage the majority of viewers (on some levels at least). All three artists enjoyed the collaborative process immensely, and felt that there was sufficient interest in the project to take some of the ideas further.