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| | films - chance, history, art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Interview footage with six practicing artists – Anne Bean and John McKeon (music and performance double act); Stuart Brisley (performance artist); Rita Donagh (painter); Jamie Reid (graphic designer); Jimmy Boyle (artist serving a life sentence) – is interspersed with materials (slides, stills, cuttings, etc.) which ‘illustrates’ their output. |
 | | In his self-enforced confinement at the Acme Gallery, Stuart Brisley carries out his performance entitled, and lasting, “180 hours”. |
 | | Brisley claims that there is no need for artists to make an object; in his interview, he tackles the question of institutions and art practice and argues, plausibly, that art cannot exist outside specific institutions which define certain activities as artistic. |
| www.james-scott.com /films/chance2.htm (662 words) |
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