Inventory are a collective of British artists, writers and art theorists, founded in 1996. Some of their pieces see them engage in performance art in public spaces. ''Coagulum (Oxford Street)'' in 2000, saw them form into a close group on London's

Oxford Street Oxford Street is a major road in the City of Westminster in the West End of London, running between Marble Arch and Tottenham Court Road via Oxford Circus. It marks the notional boundary between the areas of Fitzrovia and Marylebone to t ...

, thus disrupting the flow of pedestrians, before entering a shopping centre and dancing to the piped music. For another piece, they played

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on The Mall with a rubber skull, using

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and

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as goals. Other pieces, such as the installation ''Requiem for the Empty Quarter'' at

The Approach Gallery The Approach Gallery is a contemporary art gallery situated above a public house of the same name in Bethnal Green, London. History The gallery was founded in 1997 by Jake Miller, along with artists Damien Meade, Ana Genoves and others . One ...

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during 2002, used modified and written-upon objects found on the street. In 2003, Inventory were nominated for the

Beck's Futures Beck's Futures was a British art prize founded by London's Institute of Contemporary Arts and sponsored by Beck's beer given to contemporary artists. Prior to the establishment of the prize in 2000, Beck's had sponsored several exhibitions of con ...

prize.

External links

Inventory's page at the Approach GalleryInventory's website
British performance artists Arts organizations established in 1996 1996 establishments in the United Kingdom {{art-org-stub