Stuart Brisley [England]
"Shopping For Shit"

performance 18.00
Sat. 12th Jan. 2002

installation exhibition
19th/20th & 26th/27th Jan. 2002

Brisley's seminal art practice has, for thirty five years, greatly informed the development of performance art in the UK and Europe. His cultural renown and notoriety stems largely from his experiments of the sixties and seventies, which physically challenged the body’s points of psychological, material and emotional resistance and flow. His work inquires into relationships between volition and compulsion that exist regardless of the veneer society projects upon birth, death, sexuality and politics.

He was professor of Media Fine Art Graduate Studies at the Slade School of Fine Art, has exhibited his work globally, and is recognised as one of England’s most decisive contributors to the late twentieth century avant-garde in visual art.

At trace: he presented work from his on-going project Ordure/Abfell [Ordure, dirt:anything unclean; Abfell: scrap, remnant, waste], which investigates the notion of what constitutes rubbish.