Codex: Crusade

Artist Monograph / Performance Archive
Tim Brennan et al. (2005)
Art Editions North, Sunderland

Format:
Softcover | Full colour throughout | 111pp | 17 x 23 cm

Overview:

Codex: Crusade is a rare, limited-distribution monograph surveying Tim Brennan’s discursive, politically engaged performance practice from 1985 to 2004. Featuring walking, poetics, photography, sculpture, and performance, the book opens a window into a body of work that repositions the artist as historian, chronicler, and cultural walker.

With an introduction by seminal post-war British artist Stuart Brisley, the volume includes major critical essays and rich visual documentation.

Featured essays by:

• Tim Brennan, in which he engages a dialogue with Scientist, Writer and Stalker.

• Andrea Phillips, exploring Brennan’s 25-day Jarrow March/Crusade — a performative retracing of the 1936 protest route, blending embodied memory and political ritual.

• Dave Beech, whose A to Z of Nowhere positions Brennan’s work at the intersection of performance art, conceptualism, minimalism, land art, and social practice.

Contents include:

• Complete visual and textual documentation of Jarrow Crusade

• Archival notes, maps, artefacts, and ephemera from the 25-day manoeuvre

• Reflections on walking as political resistance and poetic method

• Documentation of performance, sculpture, and critical writing

• A key contribution to British political art, experimental cartography, and radical historiography

Condition:
New / Mint / From the artist’s archive

Price: £12 + P&P (UK / International)
(Used copies listed online from £10+ — this is a pristine, direct-from-artist edition.)

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