Small Acts: Performance, the Millennium and the Making of Time

'Small Acts documents the work of fourteen performance artists who marked the personal and political resonances of the new Millennium in a series of site-specific actions. Contrasting with the epic, populist and homogenising nature of the official celebrations, these works focused on forgotten and ephemeral experiences, enacting small but significant interventions in the public sphere.
Small Acts examines how we frame and understand our experiences of art, time and society. A dynamic series of essays combining cultural commentary with fiction, art criticism and philosophy sits alongside the artists' work. These writings, like the works they complement, contest the stories that contemporary culture tells itself about time.' (back cover)

Includes contributors' biographies and an overview of the featured projects.

Note: In the chapter 'End Time Now', Adrian Heathfield discusses the work of artist Tehching Hsieh.

Access level

Onsite

artist

HSIEH Tehching, 謝德慶

publisher

Black Dog Publishing (London, United Kingdom)

editor

Adrian HEATHFIELD

Location code

REF.HEA

Language

English

Keyword

performance art, photography, video art, film, multimedia art, participatory art

Publication/Creation date

2000

No of pages

191

ISBN / ISSN

1901033570

No of copies

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

Introduction - Tim ETCHELLS, Adrian HEATHFIELD, Lois KEIDAN

things not worth keeping - The Millennium Collection

Nothing Happened - Suzanne MOORE

Flood - Scanner

Permanent Midnight - Tim ETCHELLS

The Disciples - Brian CATLING

Class of '76 (Text by Alex Kelly) - Third Angel

Untimely - Peggy PHELAN

Overhead Projection - Graeme MILLER

Conceiving Difference - ANN WHITEHURST

A Thousand and One - Gilane TAWADROS

The Second Kommen - Ronald FRASER-MUNRO

Artland 2000 - Lois KEIDAN

10.1.00 >> 30.1.00 >>> < - Daniel GOSLING

The Long Now - Brian ENO

A Clean State - Meloni POOLE

End Time Now - Adrian HEATHFIELD

Unknowing (remains) - Kira O'REILY

six small acts for big women or six big acts for small women - Deborah LEVY

Pull Yourself Together (Text by Clare Allan) - Bobby BAKER

Staying In - Chris DORLEY-BROWN

Suspended Sentence - Robert PACITTI

Snow Portraits - Hugo GLENDINNING

A Short Diary of the New - Alexander Garcia DUETTMANN

The World from Memory - Emma KAY

Bubbling Tom - Mike PEARSON

Small Acts: Performance, the Millennium and the Making of Time

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