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enacting a brief
What is the subject of "enacting a brief of some sort" and what does it mean?
The second artist is the Mexico City-based Francis Alys, whose work is similarly driven by street activity and performance but from the point of view of ‘engineered actions’ generally documented and presented filmically.Thus, his work records incursions into the cityscape, based occasionally on the observation of existing patterns of behaviour – the particular movement of pedestrians over time, for instance – but more usually on the instigation of some form of basic stimulus involving his own walking persona, or that of other specified individuals or groups, enacting a brief of some sort.
The second artist is the Mexico City-based Francis Alys, whose work is similarly driven by street activity and performance but from the point of view of ‘engineered actions’ generally documented and presented filmically.Thus, his work records incursions into the cityscape, based occasionally on the observation of existing patterns of behaviour – the particular movement of pedestrians over time, for instance – but more usually on the instigation of some form of basic stimulus involving his own walking persona, or that of other specified individuals or groups, enacting a brief of some sort.
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red apple What is the subject of "enacting a brief of some sort "his own walking persona, or that of other specified individuals or groups" red apple and what does it mean? com/us/definition/american_english/brief )
- red apple What is the subject of "enacting a brief of some sort "his own walking persona, or that of other specified individuals or groups" red apple and what does it mean?
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red appleWhat is the subject of "enacting a brief of some sort"his own walking persona, or that of other specified individuals or groups"
red appleand what does it mean?"brief" = A set of instructions given to a person about a job or task
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Dear GPY, another guy here says that "enacting a brief" means "creating a performance". What is your idea? Is he/she wrong?
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red appleDear GPY, another guy here says that "enacting a brief" means "creating a performance". What is your idea? Is he/she wrong?In my opinion, "enacting a brief" means carrying out a set of instructions in order to perform a task. However, this is not incompatible with their creating a performance. The instructions might tell them to create some kind of p
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