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Inside/Outside/In 1981 I remember being in my hotel before the performance in Krakow. Bells were ringing which set the mood in concert with the centre of the city as in many cities across Europe. I remember thinking about the schism between good and bad as perceived between Western Europe and the Eastern Bloc as known in the West. In this circumstance positivity into negativity can be seen to be interchangeable in the presentation of a contradiction splitting European culture. From the
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Leaching Out at the Intersection
Please go to the Text section for the related document, 'Three Cases Suitable for Rottweil'. Retrospective, ICA, London 1981Duration of performance and installation: 30 days This was part of a larger project, at that time uncompleted and named as The Georgiana Collection. I lived in Georgiana Street London NW1. At the corner of the street was a piece of wasteland covered in rubbish. I had watched a cardboard suitcase slowly disintegrate over an 18 month perod which gave me the idea
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Being and Doing, a film by Stuart Brisley and Ken McMullen
Being and Doing Click here to watch the video For a transcript of the film text, please go to the text section. Performance art is a term used to describe a live art activity that fits uneasily into critical categories. It is ephemeral and often dangerous. In ‘Being and Doing’ filmmaker Ken McMullen and artist Stuart Brisley collaborate to search out the origins of performance art, connecting it not to modernism but to ancient folk rituals in England and Europe. These rituals
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Nul Comma Nul 1984 Camden Art Centre London Nul Comma Nul came about in response to an invitation from artist and curator Deanna Petherbridge to take part in a group exhibition entitled 1984 in 1984 at the Camden Art Centre. I had read 1984 by George Orwell, and reacquainted myself with it. Camden Art Centre at that time had a book section running parallel at ninety degrees to the main entrance. At the right hand end obscuring a doorway leading to a gallery was a free
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Tate archive
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Minus One (The Georgiana Collection)
Sound work {audio:14}
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From 1978 I worked under the broad heading of The Georgiana Collection. The exhibition The Georgiana Collection was eventually a travelling exhibition conceived and shown at the Serpentine Gallery, London in 1986.
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From the Fourth World to the Third World
Tate archive : Hand written diagram showing installation requirements
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Against the Wall (The Georgiana Collection)
Having seen an industrial building supported by temporary wooden buttresses, this work invokes the human presence through the placement of clothing underneath the buttresses. The work was made with the Troubles in mind. It refers to the outside, the external and the sheltering of
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It Can Be Done, 1986 It Can Be Done photographic triptych. The left hand image is of Karl Marx taken from a poster advertising an annual Marxist Summer school at the University of London . The centre image is of the same poster which was pasted over a pop poster, singer Feargal Sharkey where some of the Marxist poster has been torn away revealing a part of Sharkey’s face underneath. It appears as though the partly torn image of Karl Marx acts as a mask partly covering
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The Cenotaph Project 1987-1991Stuart Brisley and Maya Balcioglu in January 1987 Stuart Brisley was appointed to a six months residency at the Imperial War Museum in London. IWM collection contained a model of the Whitehall Cenotaph in a glass case. Complete with flags the model displays all the precision and intensity peculiar to architectural models. It slowly came to mind that the Cenotaph could become the subject of work. Subsequently Brisley discussed the idea with Maya Balcioglu,
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Bourgeois Manners – Brute Force and Bloody Ignorance
Tate archive: An account of Stuart Brisley's work "Bourgeois Manners"
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