Small Acts : Performance, the Millennium and the Marking of Time

Aganist a backdrop of corporate pageantry, state fireworks and bogus universalism 14 British artists have marked the personal and political resonances of the Millennium in a series of extraordinary performances, here transformed into works for the page. These dissident, idiosyncratic and often private actions deal with unspoken and invisible aspects of contemporary experience: personal and community memories, itinerant life, anonymity, mental helth, disability, rumours, forgotten times and possessions. Commissioned artist include Brain Catling, Bobby Baker, Graeme. More than a catalogue of now lost performance events, Small Acts presents striking visual documents set alongside essays by key art and cultural commentators.