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Townley and Bradby

Year:
2006-07
Project summary:

A partnership of Lawrence Bradby and Anna Townley.

Statement about Dust: 

In an essay on axisweb.org, curator Sam Gathercole described the piece in the following way: " 

'Dust' is a performed line. In it, the artists wear the high-visibility clothing of the commercial or municipal cleaner, but the line that they follow and sweep is invisible. From dawn until dusk on the winter solstice, Townley and Bradby swept a line from a hospital morgue to a crematorium. The work possesses the aesthetics of community service, but the line being drawn and the passage being prepared is beyond the utilitarian."

'Dust'
performance drawing