Bruce Lacey and Jill Bruce

Lacey and Bruce are indefinable in terms of categorisation. Their work combines all possible materials including live music, mechanical constructions, and film projection, combining to make intense and exploding experiential performance. In the 1970s works include Stella Superstar and Her Amazing Galactic Adventures. In 1972, they toured A Journey Through a Black Hole to a Coloured Planet, which comprised of a bouncy inflatable for children. It can be seen in the Arts Council documentary Outside In. In 1973 they performed at Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff with ‘an evening of british rubbish’ (with The Alberts Dance Orchestra).

Bruce Lacey and Jill Bruce

Documentation

The Lacey Rituals: Films By Bruce Lacey (And Friends) by Bruce Lacey (2015, 70 minutes B&W/Colour)
Study Room Ref: D1903

Website

The Bruce Lacey Experience

What’s Welsh for Performance? Beth yw ‘performance’ yn Gymraeg?

Bruce Lacey and Jill Bruce, Towards the Real Reality, The Acme Gallery, London 7-19 September 1981, Courtesy of Acme Archive
Bruce Lacey and Jill Bruce, Towards the Real Reality, The Acme Gallery, London 7-19 September (1981), Courtesy of Acme Archive.