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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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Minus One (The Georgiana Collection)
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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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The Cenotaph Project 1987-1991Stuart Brisley and Maya Balciogluin 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, and
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