Stuart Brisley : From the Georgiana Collection

16 Sep-29 Oct 2016

Overview

Across Brisley’s ground-breaking career, which has encompassed painting, sculpture, site-specific installation, sound, photography, writing, film and performance, he has remained committed to making work that questions existing social and political structures. In the late 1960s, he pioneered the development of performance as an art form with the potential to create a new participatory and engaged artist-audience relationship, one which could activate the viewer. For Brisley, contemporary performance, with its utopian democratic foundations, can ‘point to political views which challenge the interest of those who regulate the institutions of society in their own image’ (Stuart Brisley, Being and Doing, 1984, 16mm film).