During the period when I was making actions<\/em> (1967-76) I had always produced drawings and texts of various kinds. Also I had made objects, often using found materials, which seemed to belong to stories that evolved as I was making them. Sometimes these stories would be presented in brief texts that accompanied the objects. Gradually the actions themselves became less important than the remains of the actions, the objects and materials that seemed to hint at what had happened. The narrative of the action was somehow embodied in a poetic way in the things that were left behind.<\/p>\n

I came to realise that the process of making objects in my studio and the narratives I was spinning as I made them, might be of interest to others. So I began to make working exhibitions<\/em> in which anyone who came to the museum, gallery or other exhibition space, could watch what I was doing, seeing how the work developed from tentative beginnings to some kind of resolution. In many of these working exhibitions there was a dialogue going on between the visitors and myself – ideas and interpretations that arose were often fed back into the narrative of the work. In that sense there was always a collaborative, participatory dimension to work. Here are a few examples of these working exhibitions.<\/p>\n

First a few of the objects made in the studio or in public sites that preceded the larger scale exhibitions.<\/p>\n