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This one-off event will see the Nice Style artists return to their final 1974 performance High Up On A Baroque Palazzo. It has been programmed alongside the exhibition Nice Style: The World’s First Pose Band, which presents photographs, posters, postcards and archival material relating to Nice Style, a collaborative performance group set up in Maidstone in 1970 by British artists Bruce McLean, Paul Richards, Gary Chitty, Robin Fletcher and Ron Carr. The group ‘disbanded’ in 1975.

In their original performance High Up On A Baroque Palazzo the group performed at Garage Gallery in London, donning dinner suits and striking exaggerated poses on and below a makeshift scaffolding palazzo. Their costumes were aided by posing poles and other props that highlighted particular postures. Their live art drew upon the interplay between ideas of permanence and the ephemeral, between the body alive and in motion, frozen and stylized. McLean recently described Nice Style as 'not mime, not theatre, but live sculpture.'

This event is part of the Institute's current research into sculpture of the 1960s and 1970s.

It is not necessary to book for this event.

For information please contact Kirstie Gregory, kirstie@henry-moore.org.