The final episode of Art & the 60s looks at the artists working outside the commercial art world whose stance reflected the countercultural politics of the time.
3. POLITICS AND PERFORMANCE
In 1966 Barry Miles opened the Indica Bookshop which rapidly became the focus for London's counterculture. Below it was the Indica Gallery, a small space supported by Paul McCartney and run by John Dunbar, then married to Marianne Faithfull.
Q&A: Director/narrator Vanessa Engle answers your questions
Dunbar didn't have a contemporary art background and was never interested in the mainstream or establishment art world, but his little space showed many Sixties underground artists - including now well-known names Yoko Ono and the Boyle Family. It was at Indica that Yoko Ono met John Lennon.
Ono herself was involved in the early days of performance art, as was Stuart Brisley. In the late Sixties, Brisley vomited on the audience at his shows at the ICA and the Royal Court.
Gallery: Highlights from the Tate Britain exhibition
Others whose work is covered in the film include kinetic artist Liliane Lijn, impromptu performer David Medalla, best known for his bubble machines, and Bruce Lacey, whose work with robots expressed much of the anger and political feeling shared by many of the artists working away from the commercial mainstream.
Episode three features artists including Yoko Ono, the Boyle Family, Barry Flanagan, Gustav Metzger, John Latham, Otto Muehl, David Medalla, Liliane Lijn, Bruce Lacey and Stuart Brisley.
A major exhibition, Art & the 60s: This Was Tomorrow, accompanied the original broadcast of the series. It ran at Tate Britain from 30 June - 26 September 2004.
