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Mel Brimfield: This is Performance Art

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The first detailed insight into artist Mel Brimfield’s practice, in which she works with dancers, musicians, comedians and theatre-makers to explore the boundaries of performance art in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. See P1518 and P1651 for further documentation on this piece.

Artist / Author Mel Brimfield, David Briers
Reference A0458
Date 2011
Journal Art Monthly
Journal page 37
Type Article

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