TIM BRENNAN
Monograph: Tim Brennan
...is the result of an Arts Council initiative to
facilitate the archiving of time-based practices and performance
works. In addition to this, the book focuses on a major essay by Janet
Hand (Goldsmiths College) which analyses the 'walk-works' and
Brennan's role as 'guide' in a mode that she terms 'critical
affirmation'. Brennan, adopting a strategy consistent with the
operations he terms 'manoeuvres', has responded by punctuating the
essay with photographs from his 'walk-works'.
Tim Brennan is an independent practitioner who has exhibited
internationally for 20 years. He is engaged in the notion of
discursive practice through performance, photography, sculpture,
writing, publication, drawing, curating and teaching. Since 1987, he
has produced a corpus of work which has included the politics of the
gallery and beyond. Over the last decade he has developed a
methodology based on walking and conversation as art (which he refers
to as the manoeuvre). This work exists in a region between traditions
of performance art, loco-description, history and journeying, and
surfaces as an exponential mode of radical travel-writing.
The book is, more than an artist's monograph, a rigorous exchange
between art and writing; art (as) writing.
E X H I B I T I O N S
Johan Deumens (2008 NL)
a perverse library (York, 2008)
one day bookshop for experimental literature (Shandy Hall, 2007)