Trashing Performance: This Is Performance Art

Mel Brimfield likes to monkey around with art history – no one has interrogated more thoroughly the links between Gilbert & George and Morecambe & Wise. In the second part of her tongue-in-cheek examination of contemporary performance, Brimfield focuses on experimental theatre and cabaret with the help of her creation-collaborator, the late Sir Francis Spalding. The premiere of his final piece of research includes newly unearthed material on the '80s' notorious Club Foot and a memorial with a difference…