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André Stitt


André Stitt considered one of Europe's foremost performance artists. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, he has worked as a live artist since 1976 creating hundreds of unique performances at major galleries, festivals, alternative venues and sites specific throughout the world. Stitt is identified with a strain of performance relating more to visual art and art action (identified in his work as 'akshun'). His work focuses on difficult and traumatic themes, issues of oppression, freedom, coercion, subversion, experiences of alienation, appropriation of cultures, globalisation and communal conflict.


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André Stitt


André Stitt considered one of Europe's foremost performance artists. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, he has worked as a live artist since 1976 creating hundreds of unique performances at major galleries, festivals, alternative venues and sites specific throughout the world. Stitt is identified with a strain of performance relating more to visual art and art action (identified in his work as 'akshun'). His work focuses on difficult and traumatic themes, issues of oppression, freedom, coercion, subversion, experiences of alienation, appropriation of cultures, globalisation and communal conflict.