[The following discussion was originally posted on the Artspective website, which, it seems has disappeared from the web. Thanks to the internet archive, I managed to hunt it down again, and I have taken the liberty of republishing it here.]
Artists are to blame: Simon Barney
In early March 2001 an Artist-Run Initiate Forum was held at the Tin Shed Gallery in Sydney. Simon Barney’s article ‘Artists are to blame’ would, perhaps, have artists rethinking the concepts of the artist-run gallery.
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[natty flyer designed by Abe, who organised the talk].
Last night I gave an informal slideshow talk about re-enactment and performance art at Concordia University in Montreal. Abe de Bruyn, an Aussie performance practitioner who I had met in Melbourne a few years back, is studying here now, and has initiated a series of guest lectures broadly on the topic of video and performance art.
I collected together a bunch of pictures I took on my recent trip to New York, to discuss re-enacting performance art as a strategy which is relevant to art history, archiving and documentation, as well something which is of social and phenomenological interest.
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