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Stuart Brisley Stuart Brisley will be giving a performance reading from his new
book "Beyond Reason:Ordure" Stuart Brisley is widely regarded as the Godfather of British performance art. His seminal practice has, for over forty years, greatly informed the development of international contemporary art in the UK and Europe. His cultural renown and notoriety stems largely from his experiments of the nineteen sixties and seventies, which 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 Art , has exhibited his work globally, and is recognised as one of Britain's most decisive contributors to avant-garde visual art. His new book explores work from his on-going project Ordure/Abfell [Ordure, dirt: anything unclean. Abfell, scrap, waste, remnant] which investigates the notion of what constitutes rubbish. |
