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  • STUART BRISLEY, Louise Bourgeois' Legs, 2000, Shu-Box Theatre, University of Regina, Canada

    Louise Bourgeois' Legs

          "Louise Bourgeois' Legs":   Stuart Brisley's Anatomy of Art  Garry Sherbert  It has been over a year now since I saw Stuart Brisley at the University of Regina's Shu-Box Theatre, and although the context has changed since October 28, 2000, the abiding context for the delightful irony and satire of "Louise Bourgeois' Legs" has been Legs, the written text that accompanied the performance.  In fact, I was encouraged by Brisley to discuss the

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  • STUART BRISLEY, Study for Black Mirror, 2000

    Study for Black Mirror

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  • Black Mirror

    Black Mirror

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  • STUART BRISLEY, Intimations of Abfall, 2000

    Intimations of Abfall

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  • STUART BRISLEY, Legs, 2000, Live in the Head, Whitechapel Gallery, London

    Legs

    Performance duration: 5 hours a day for 2 weeks Legs was conceived as a performative work discoursing on the question of identity regarding two sculptures of legs the focus of the work. The question concerned whether one or either of both legs were those of Louise Bourgeois. Aspects of Bourgeois’ own poetic interpretation of her early life were brought into the discourse. However the focus of the work concerned the identity of the legs. Were they those of Louise B.? Or of the Soviet

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  • STUART BRISLEY, Relics of the Auld Decency: Objects, Artefacts, Art, 2002, Project Arts Centre, Dublin

    Relics of the Auld Decency: Objects, Artefacts, Art

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  • STUART BRISLEY, Beneath Dignity, 2002, A Short History of Performance </br>
Whitechapel Gallery, London

    Beneath Dignity

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  • STUART BRISLEY, The Collection of Ordure, Stakhanov's Finger, 2002, Freud Museum London

    The Collection of Ordure

    Please go to the Text section for further documentation and for Danny Birchall's MA dissertation on Institution and Intervention: Artists’ Projects in Object-Based Museums.   Since 2000 I have been working under the heading The Collection of Ordure, founding the immaterial Museum of Ordure with two others in 2002. The recent paintings all sit within the concept of The Collection of Ordure.The Collection of Ordure began in the middle 90s when I was living in Spitalfields. The first

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  • STUART BRISLEY, Louise Bourgeois' Leg, 2002, Performance Object <br />
Plaster, ironing board, wood

    Louise Bourgeois' Leg

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  • STUART BRISLEY, Beyond Reason: Ordure, 2003, Contributors: Martin, Craig (ed.)<br /> Document; Performative; Experimental writing;<br /> Offset printing; Black & white; Full colour; 136 pages; Soft cover; <br />Design: Valle Walkley <br />197mm x 128mm<br />Edition of 1,500 copies <br />ISBN: 978 1 870699 69 3

    Beyond Reason: Ordure

    ‘Dirt is universal, a-historical even. Homogeneity at ground level, mediated by the universal glue of sputum and excreta. Differentiated at the surface by the droppings of local and global consumption, the deposits of fast food, broken furniture, news media debris, plastic bags, condoms, sanitary towels, cigarette butts, betting slips, syringes etc.’ − Stuart Brisley This is a book about ordure in all its manifestations − shit, dirt, trash, waste, pus, pollution and

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  • STUART BRISLEY, American Bouquet, 2004, Private collection

    American Bouquet

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  • Residuary Study

    Residuary Study

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  • STUART BRISLEY, Residuary II, 2005, Private collection

    Residuary II

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  • STUART BRISLEY, Residuary Study 2, 2005

    Residuary Study 2

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  • STUART BRISLEY, Residuary, 2005-06

    Residuary

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  • STUART BRISLEY, Untitled, 2005, Private Collection

    Untitled

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  • STUART BRISLEY, Untitled, 2006

    Untitled

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  • STUART BRISLEY, Collaboration #1, 2006, Stuart Brisley and Manuel Vason collaboration

    Collaboration

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  • STUART BRISLEY, Dead Line, 2006

    Dead Line

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  • STUART BRISLEY, Estonia, 2007

    Estonia

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    See text section for 'Stuart Brisley: Crossings', Art Monthly review by Colin Perry, April 2008

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  • STUART BRISLEY, Bits and Pieces, 2008

    Bits and Pieces

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  • STUART BRISLEY, Pig Wars, 2008

    Pig Wars

    Obvious things first. Drawing can be the most simple and direct means of expression. It can be the most economic medium. And at the same time it offers complexity as a means of expression. I have long been interested in working with economic forms of expression, hence the use of the body as a vehicle devoid of other aids or most other aids. I have at times thought of the body as a vehicle for drawing where the pencil has been withdrawn into the body and where subsequent bodily 

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  • STUART BRISLEY, Collection of Ordure, 2008

    Collection of Ordure


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  • STUART BRISLEY, Cut, 2009, Theatre d`Usine Saga Performance Festival Lausanne February 2009

    Cut

    Click here to watch the video Cut is the last of a series of works which were made in response to the notion of 'The Last Breath' In this the last work the subject has become an expression of the relationship between acts of destruction and its inevitable interrelationship with its other, as in the Hegelian thesis/antithesis of the dialectic. Sound has been envisaged as the constructive element running through the procedures. It is an alternative voice where materials in contact with each

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  • STUART BRISLEY, Bloody House, 2009

    Bloody House

    When works lie around in my studio they act on what I think about and are often temporari[y adapted in one way or another. They risk being contingent to circumstance and fortune. Bloody House is no exception. That is not to say that the first intention and meaning is undermined or that the motivations in the first place are abandoned or forgotten. But when in the studio they are part of the ongoing debate I have with myself about making art. Bloody House is no exception. I have shown it four

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  • Urbanscape in the Vicinity of the Burning Man

    Urbanscape in the Vicinity of the Burning Man

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  • Seasonal Drawing

    Seasonal Drawing

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  • STUART BRISLEY, Seasonal Drawing, 2009, Private Collection

    Seasonal Drawing

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  • STUART BRISLEY, Seasonal Drawing (March), 2009, Private Collection

    Seasonal Drawing (March)

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