BREATH
A new performance by Stuart Brisley
Royal Academy Life Rooms, commissioned by Modern Art Oxford as part of Stuart Brisley's exhibition State of Denmark
7pm
29 October 2014
From Wikipedia:
mise en abyme:
The modern meaning of the phrase originates with the author André Gide who used it to describe self-reflexive embeddings in various art-forms and to describe what he sought in his own work. As examples, Gide cites both paintings such as Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez, and literary forms such as Shakespeare's use of the "play within a play" device in Hamlet, where a theatrical company presents a performance for the characters that illuminates a thematic aspect of the play itself. This use of the phrase mise en abyme was picked up by scholars and popularized in the 1977 book Le récit spéculaire. Essai sur la mise en abyme by Lucien Dällenbach.