Abstract
Installations and performances (tagged PhD) are part of my doctoral research at the Nottingham Trent University (UK).
The research, fusing the fields of Art, Science and Technology, explores the physical colour phenomenon of metamerism, by offering a theoretical account and aesthetic experience of the impact of light on dyed and knitted textiles through a series of artistic scenarios.
In the field of colour and colour management the focus of research has generally been on how to avoid ‘problematic’ metameric colours due to their shifting visual coherence in varying light sources. However, this ‘practice as research’ project investigates metameric colours through textile installations and performances, where the observer can experience the spectacle triggered by different spectra of white light, thereby revealing new opportunities for creative expression.
Yarn has been dyed using carefully calculated and rigorously tested, contrasting recipes so that the resulting knitted textile samples appear evenly matched in natural daylight, in the knowledge that they will appear different under incandescent or fluorescent light. These strategically dyed yarns, featuring alternating colours, were used for the creation of a series of knitted artworks, including a metameric dress used in green-green-green performances. The various performances and installations at once revealed and, through divers applied texts, embedded the phenomenon in the wider context of light, colour and perception.
This investigation uncovered the beauty of the unexpected and demonstrated how light acts as a catalyst to provoke colour changes, thus breathing life into installations and performances. The offered encounters with the phenomenon of metamerism inspired thinking and astonishment and encouraged debates. Thereby a relocation of the ‘problematic’ physical colour phenomenon has been achieved, as the installations and performances affected a state of wonder within the observers and provided an appropriation and appreciation of its poetic.

EGGER, S., 2017. The Rays Are Colouring – The Encounter Of A Phenomenon. PhD.,   Nottingham Trent University