In this film artists Stuart Brisley and Maya Balcioglu discuss what it means for an artist’s archive to be made available to the public.
Brisley has engaged with political and social issues throughout his 60 year career, and has worked with a wide range of media in doing so. In the 1960s and 1970s he was active as a performance artist, and in the 1980s he created sculpture and installation art. This varied approach to art practice is captured in Brisley’s archive, as are the changing social conditions in which he has worked.
In relation to his varied archive, Brisley and Balcioglu reflect on what archival material can reveal about artistic practice, how archives can be reactivated through interpretation, why archives are important for cultural memory.
