STUART BRISLEY, 12 Days, 1975, Kunst Forum, Rottweil
STUART BRISLEY, 12 Days, 1975, Rottweil
STUART BRISLEY, 12 Days, 1975, Rottweil
STUART BRISLEY, 12 Days, 1975, Rottweil
STUART BRISLEY, 12 Days, 1975, Rottweil
STUART BRISLEY, 12 Days, 1975, Rottweil

Please go to the text section for school childrens' notes and letters to Stuart Brisley on this work.

 

Public informal discussions 

Private formal construction of structure 

Actions in public with structure in various states of completion 

Collaboration through discourse 

An everyday thought with subjective implications: make your own prison. 
( I built a box the size of the limits of my own body) 

Final outcome: Breakout 

As with some other works at this time the subject was initially conceived in terms of a vital simplicity. The process activated a greater complexity through interactions with audiences in the natural course of learning in time. 
As with all durational works, time adds a greater element of generosity to how a work is given and received. 
The event was not exclusively something preconceived and then performed, although it was partly that, but more in the ways in which a commonplace democratic discourse actuated collective understanding.