...This chapter situates Stuart Brisley as a ground-breaking figure in the development of performance art in Britain. It sets out the striking homologies between performance and the revolutionary process as suggested by Brisley’s own artistic practice. It then shows how Brisley’s performances also...

... Richard Two Years Before the Mast Pihlainen Kalle formlessness Groys Boris Malevich Kazimir museums and art galleries Aarhus Denmark Kunsthal Marx Karl and Engels Friedrich Communist Manifesto The Munslow Alun history of revolution Stuart Brisley happenings durational performance art...

... French Revolution Pasolini Pier Paolo rupture failure Italy revolution Stuart Brisley collective memory survivals Ghost Dance East European performance art Aby Warburg George Didi-Huberman Ken McMullen happenings body art Performance art differs from other art forms in its evanescence...

... heaps Sunderland Art Centre Brennan Tim bureaucracy Easington District Council Jay Martin Cenotaph Project with Maya Balcioglu Stuart Brisley Michael Oakeshott Hayden White art activism public history collective memory Peterlee Artist Placement Group working-class history archival art...

... XV King of France Louis XVI King of France Michelet Jules analogy Serres Michel Stuart Brisley Maya Balcioglu Lutyens cenotaph monument post-war British art French Revolution Tatlin’s tower installation art tomb The Cenotaph Project (1987–91) was Brisley’s last major...

... republicanism sovereignty survival s Beke László performance art history of revolution revolution Stuart Brisley mise en abîme frame analogy sovereignty art and revolution post-war British art installation art durational performance As this book has demonstrated, performance is situated...

... of Ordure are Stuart Brisley’s longest durational works, consisting solely of detritus and waste. This chapter considers how Brisley’s self-instituted collections can shed new light on the aftermath of the French Revolution, when revolutionary rupture also gave rise to new institutions, including the Louvre...

...Stuart Brisley is a pioneering English multimedia and performance artist who developed performance as a form of social action in the 1960s and 1970s. This book assesses Brisley’s seminal influence on British art through a focus on his lifelong engagement with the histories and imaginaries...