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A new book published by Museum of Ordure and Antipyrine on the occasion of Stuart Brisley's exhibition at Modern Art Oxford, 2014. […] Stuart Brisley’s pioneering archival The Peterlee Project (1976-77) — one of the first attempts made by an artist to ‘perform history’ and an acknowledged precursor of the archival art projects of today. Peterlee itself was a ‘town without history.’ Founded in 1948 to relieve the severe overcrowding in the nearby
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Speech for 'Celebration of Insitutional Consumption' (suggested structure)
Transcription of text SPEECH (Suggested structure)1. Law and Order2. Alternative argument3. Suppression of undesirable elements4. Identification of undesirable elements – race, ideology, age, all dissenters5. Proposal that all normal people want situation as is therefore law and order pressure.6. Statement supporting patriotism/nationalism/class/freedom of individual argument
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Celebration for Institutional Consumption – Speech, Fourth Course
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APG/Hille Report: report by Stuart Brisley on his visit to Hille factories
Transcript APG/Hille Project Report on APG artist’s visit to Hille factories. STUART BRISLEY’S REPORT FOLLOWING VISITS TO HILLE FACTORIES… I have spent a total of three and a half hours at Hille factories, and it is obvious that any penetrating study of a complex organic system would take considerably longer and would involve meeting far more
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Letter between Barbara Latham and Leslie Julius regarding Hille Project
Transcript Dear Leslie Julius, I have been speaking to Mr. Hammond about our draft contract with Stuart Brisley. This I had discussed with Mr. Hammond before Stuart Brisley started at Hille.There appeared to be 2 points for clarification: 1) The charge for APG Research Ltd. We charge 15% on the artists’ fee on placement to cover our research costs. In Stuart Brisley ‘s case it would be £150 on £1000. At our original meeting 2 years ago we were a trust and so
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Letter between H.J. Hammond and Barbara Latham
Transcript HilleS Hille and Co Ltd Engineering Division Hamlet Green Haverhill Suffolktelephone Haverhill 2537 telex 81234 6th November, 1970 HJH/JAM A.P.G. Research Limited,22, Portland Road,London, W.11. For the attention of Mrs Barbara Latham. Dear Mrs. Latham, Thank you for your letter of the 29th October regarding the problems which have arisen on the project with Stuart. I have been informed that arrangements have been made for a meeting with us all on
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Hille Fellowship – Factory and Artist: The Industrial Context, by Stuart Brisley
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Report on APG Project at Haverhill Sept 1970 – March 1971
Transcript REPORT ON APG PROJECT AT HAVERHILL COMMENCING SEPTEMBER 1970 – MAY 1971 1. Artist Involved Stuart Brisley 2. Object To place an artist in an industrial environment and to assess the reaction of the people he cam in contact with and if possible to assess the benefits from that contact. 3. Details 3.1 The initial reaction from management
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The account of the Hille Project by Barbara Steveni/APG Administration
Barbara Steveni interviewed by Melanie RobertsNational Life StoriesThe British Library1998The account of the Hille Project by Barbara Steveni/APG Administration"Then there were some... Stuart Brisley’s association with Hille International Limited, which was a furniture firm, and Leslie Julius, who was, and his wife, were interested in the notion of it very much, and they were at a point... F6688 Side A© The British Library Board http://sounds.bl.ukBarbara Steveni C466/80/06 F6688A
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Transcript DRAFT To: – Dear Sir, I am writing to confirm the arrangements agreed between —— Ltd. ("the Company") and APG at our meeting on ——. 1. The Company will grant a Fellowship to —— (“the Artist”) to last for a period of one calendar year commencing ——. 2. The Company will pay the Fellowship
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The Artist and Artist Placement Group / Studio International
THE ARTIST AND ARTIST PLACEMENT GROUPStuart Brisley published in Studio International 1972Artist Placement Group offers a contract for the consideration of companies in respect of its programme to place artists in industry.The subject of the agreement is a proposed relationship between a company and an artist. It establishes Artist Placement Group's basic intent to place the individual in industry without any prior regard for the making of art,
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'No It Is Not On' – Article relating to Artist Placement Group
Transcription of text NO IT IS NOT ONIn capitalist societies the habitual definition of individual freedom is seen as an assumption of a right to exercise individual initiative directed towards the potential increase of individual wealth. However, the majority of people find themselves in the position of selling their individual abilities in exchange for the material means of survival at the expense of other fundamental human needs. They serve the interests of the individual or controlling
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Homage to the Commune: Stuart Brisley's statement in the catalogue for Arte Inglese Oggi
'Homage to the Commune' took place in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Milan, Italy as part of Inglese Arte Oggi (1960–1976) an exhibition organised by the British Council and the Comune di Milano at Palazzo Reale, Milan from February to March 1976. An extract from the catalogue for Inglese Arte Oggi (1960–1976): "Anti Performance Art All art at one time or another involves 'performance'. It is an essential element in the process of making or doing. tThe term 'performance'
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Rottweil school childrens' notes and letters to Stuart Brisley on '12 Days'
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Moments of Decision/Indecision: letter from Jozef Szajna of Teatr Studio, Warsaw
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Artist Project Peterlee: First Peterlee Report
Please go to the bottom of the text page 'Peterlee Report' (70s Text section) to download a PDF of the First Peterlee Report.
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THE ARTIST PROJECT PETERLEE JANUARY 1976-SEPTEMBER 1977 The Artist Project Peterlee came about through an initiative that Artist Placement Group (APG) made to the Peterlee Development Corporation in 1974. Stuart Brisley was one of several artists approached by APG to consider the possibility of working in Peterlee. Eventually He was engaged by the Corporation to make a month’s feasibility study in Peterlee in July 1975. The result in the form of a proposal were presented to the
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Artist Project Peterlee: Renamed by Easington District Council as 'People Past and Present'
Interview with Mr A. Allen on 28 April 1977.
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Guardian article on the Peterlee Project by Caroline Tisdale
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The Peterlee Project, an article by Stuart Howard
Stuart Howard is professor of Mining History, University of Sunderland and Head of NEMARC (North East Mining Archive)
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Culture 24 article: 28 Years After It Was Begun Peterlee Artwork Nears Completion
28 Years After It Was Begun Peterlee Artwork Nears Completion
1 March 2004
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The Incidental Collection – Stuart Brisley's Peterlee Project (by Marc Crinson, Mute Magazine)
The Incidental Collection – Stuart Brisley's Peterlee Project With an eager hoovering up of community memory now a built in part of every self-respecting regeneration project, the exhibition of Stuart Brisley’s pioneering 1970s archival project in the New Town and former mining district of Peterlee is not only timely but inspiring, says Mark Crinson.The Peterlee Project, 1976-2004, Vardy Art Gallery, University of Sunderland, 9 March to 2 AprilIn 1976 the performance artist, Stuart
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Notes on the unrealised Miners Opera
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The Photographer and the Performer
'The Photographer and the Performer'
Text by Stuart Brisley, 2007From 'Live Art on Camera: Performance and Photography'
by Alice Maude-Roxby, John Hansard Gallery 2007.