Six Enchanted Artefacts 

2023 

Giles Bailey 

Starting bid: 30

Working largely with performance, Giles Bailey uses texts, video fragments and choreographies (either composed or strategically plundered) to rethink conventional approaches to the assemblage and recounting of history.

Proposing a historic model that acknowledges doubt, subjectivity and reduction, Bailey remains sceptical of ‘authentic accounts’ and looks instead to the fractured, incomplete, multi-layered and apparently democratic nature of contemporary mediations of information (e.g. web browsers) as a tool to structure and inform the composition of his works.

This ongoing research project initiated in 2010, aims to propose an alternative negotiation of performance practice’s history.