Stuart Brisley : The Peterlee project 1976-77[] Stuart Brisleys pioneering archival The Peterlee Project (1976 77) one of the first attempts made by an artist to perform history and an acknowledged precursor of the archival art projects of today. Peterlee itself was a town without history. Founded in 1948 to relieve the severe overcrowding in the nearby mining villages, it was intended to bid squalor farewell (Farewell Squalor was the title of the preliminary report). The original mining