The Peterlee Project 1976-1977
texts by Sanja Perovic, Tim Brennan
- Auteur(s)
- Sanja Perovic, Tim Brennan
- Uitgever
- Aarhus : Museum of Ordure / Antipyrine, 2014
- Omvang
- 142 p., geïllustreerd, 28 cm.
- ISBN
- 9788793108127
Stuart Brisley’s pioneering archival The Peterlee Project (1976-77) is one of the first attempts made by an artist to ‘perform history’ and an acknowledged precursor of the archival art projects of today. Peterlee itself was a ‘town without history.’ The Peterlee Project offers a useful diagnostic tool to evaluate the current relations between ‘performance’ and ‘history’ because it was explicitly conceived neither as an archive nor as a work of art. The criterion for evaluating the success or failure of the project was practical and political, rather than aesthetic, namely to raise the historical consciousness of the local people, especially with regards to the impact of the Peterlee Development Corporation upon their lives. Artist Placement Group
- Trefwoorden
- sociology , aesthetics - critical aesthetics , archives
- Locatie in de bibliotheek
- Kast 11 - 4: Archieven ; Re-enactment ; Geschiedenis
- Opmerkingen
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