Chance, History, Art... - ACE093.3

Caption: "180 Hours, a continuous performance at the Acme gallery, September 4-12, 1978." Pixillated footage of Stuart Brisley performance. VO describing the performance and its context; Brisley VO describing a day’s activities. Caption: "Stuart Brisley, born 1933 – Artist." Brisley on becoming a performance artist because it enabled him to work directly with the audience, rather than having to create an object for them to look at. A performance in the street might not be perceived as art, but doing it in an institution sets up the conditions for it to be recognised. An artist must relate the ways in which the work can be seen to what he wants to communicate. 180 Hours continues. Caption over: "History". Brisley comes out of the gallery. Caption: "For having desired to restore to civilised man the force of is primitive instincts, for having desired to set free the imagination of love and for having fought desperately for absolute justice and equality, the Marquis de Sade was shut up almost all his life in the Bastille, and in the prisons at Vincennes and Charenton. Paul Eluard." Caption: "‘All this teaches us that we are richer than we think…’ Pierre Janet (conclusion to Case Histories of Hysterics)." Caption: "Rita Donagh, born 1939 – Painter." Donagh talking about her painting Evening Papers (Ulster 1972-4). Shots of the painting with her VO. One of her inspirations was a newspaper picture she had been sent, another was Guernica and Cubism. Her concerns about political art. The experience of talking about her work to students at art school.