{"title":"Stuart Brisley","description":"\u003cp\u003eStuart Brisley (b. 1933) is a British artist whose practice has centred on performance, endurance, and the body as a site of political and institutional critique. Working from the late 1960s onward, he developed a sustained engagement with duration, material conditions, and the limits of social tolerance — staging actions in which the body is subjected to extreme physical and psychological states. His Georgiana Collection, an invented institutional framework derived from a domestic address, extended this logic into accumulation, sound, and archival form. Brisley’s work was central to the development of performance and body art in Britain, and his exhibitions at the ICA and internationally positioned him as a key figure in the intersection of art and political thought.\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. Performance translated into sequence, index, and printed field.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal period item.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Institute of Contemporary Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53289048768850,"sku":"BRISLEY-ICA-1981","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Brisley_-Stuart.-Institute-of-Contemporary-Arts_-21-April---31-May-1981-1.jpg?v=1777188647"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/collections\/Brisley_-Stuart.-Institute-of-Contemporary-Arts_-21-April---31-May-1981-1.jpg?v=1777189135","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/stuart-brisley.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}