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Actor Stuart Brisley

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Arbeit Macht Frei 1973

The film Arbeit Macht Frei (Work Makes Free) was conceived after the performance 'And For Today Nothing' which took place at Gallery House Goethe Institute in London in 1972. The words Arbeit Macht Frei were wrought in iron and placed on or above the entrance gates to some if not all Nazi Concentration Camps in the period of Nazi rule in Germany and its conquered territories between 1933 and 1945. The film is conceived as an analogous representation of the objection to genocide.

Cut 2009

Cut is the last of a series of works which were made in response to the notion of 'The Last Breath'. In this the last work the subject has become an expression of the relationship between acts of destruction and its inevitable interrelationship with its other, as in the Hegelian thesis/antithesis of the dialectic.

Sweating the Hole 2009

The performance attempts to draw a black hole through the analogy of the myth of mouse as a baleful entity. Sweating comes from physical exertion and is demonstrated in the performance. And it is a characteristic of fear...