'Mel Brimfield's complex practice takes a skewed and tangled romp through the already vexed historiography of performance art, simultaneously revealing and inventing a rich history of collaboration between artists, dancers, theatre-makers, political activists and comedians. Meticulously drawn and painted posters and programmes for fictional interdisciplinary cabarets, together with costumes and props, are produced alongside documentary-style films and live works that playfully associate performance art with the most significant cultural developments of the last 100 years. Low-end showbiz memoirs, sensationalist biographical documentaries and cheap-to-make TV clip programmes compiling lists of "The 100 Top/Best/Greatest..." are referenced and documented. The second-hand anecdotes and mythologies surrounding performers and their performances are expanded, distorted and completely supplanted by new fictions, with archival photographs and footage, and authentic ephemera being appropriated and re-contextualised or entirely invented at will.' (From back cover). 
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artist
Location code
REF.BRM
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

2011

No of pages

174

ISBN / ISSN

9781907317354

No of copies

1

Content type

artist monograph

Chapter headings

Genital Panic-Souvenir Programme: Designed by the Fraser Muggeridge Studio

The Generation Game: Performance, Sculpture and the Comedic Imagination of Mel Brimfield - Jon WOOD

This Is Performance Art - Part One: Performed Sculpture and Dance: Film Transcript

A Conversation Between Mel Brimfield and Ceri Hand - Mel BRIMFIELD, Ceri HAND

Captain Pollock - Mel BRIMFIELD

This Is Performance Art - Part One

The Breakfast Sculpture

Barbara Hepworth > Henry Moore

Intergender Wrestling

Four Characters in Search of a Performance

The Love Lives of the Artists: Barbara 'N' Joe - From Our Comic Book Edited with Dominic Chennell

A Last Word From Sir Francis Spalding

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