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Associated with figures including Stuart Brisley, Marina Abramović, Chris Burden, Yoko Ono, and Joseph Beuys, performance art generated a body of documentation — photographs, catalogues, scores, and ephemera — that circulates as both record and residue of actions that cannot be repeated.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"stuart-brisley-ica-london-1981","title":"Stuart Brisley — Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 1981","description":"\u003cp\u003eInstitute of Contemporary Arts, London, 1981\u003cbr\u003eExhibition catalogue\u003cbr\u003eOriginal card covers\u003cbr\u003e4to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on the occasion of the exhibition \u003cem\u003eStuart Brisley\u003c\/em\u003e, ICA, 21 April – 31 May 1981.\u003cbr\u003eTexts by Paul Overy, John Roberts, and Stuart Hood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA document organised around performance after the fact. The cover opens with a definition: \u003cem\u003ePerformance\u003c\/em\u003e — set as a block of borrowed language, positioned against the artist’s name. The work begins in citation before any image appears.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside, the pages assemble a sequence of actions translated into print. Black-and-white plates record situations already completed: enclosed rooms, obstructed views, the body in states of endurance, suspension, or depletion. A face seen through a cut aperture. A figure seated, absorbed into a darkened interior. A body submerged, partially visible, held in material conditions rather than depicted as subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Georgiana Collection operates here as a framework rather than a fixed series: an invented institutional structure derived from a domestic address, extending into sound, action, and accumulation. The catalogue does not stabilise this structure but indexes it — listing events, sites, collaborators, and fragments of activity across London, Hamburg, Coventry, Kassel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eText and image remain discontinuous. Chronologies appear as numbered entries, detached from the images they might describe. Performance is held at a distance, redistributed as documentation, caption, and residue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ICA imprint sits low on the cover; the reverse carries only the institution’s name. No image intervenes. The publication maintains a closed surface, with the work contained as record.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very good. Light wear to covers, minor handling marks, clean internally.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn object that registers action through delay. 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The cover presents a small black bear-like object on a red ground; inside, the publication moves through documentation, drawings, performance images, props, text, and residues from \u003cem\u003eThe Black Factory\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe pages register Pope.L’s method as circulation rather than illustration. Rubber ducks, bottled water, diagrams, handwritten plans, chocolate, cornflakes, inflatable forms, and street actions appear as components in a larger operating system. The object is comic, unstable, and difficult to neutralise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncluded are references to \u003cem\u003eThe Great White Way\u003c\/em\u003e, Pope.L’s long-running crawl begun in 2002, and \u003cem\u003eThe Black Factory\u003c\/em\u003e, a mobile social project in which objects associated with blackness were collected, transformed, archived, and redistributed. 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