ABSTRACT
The chapter provides a 'trickster' perspective testing gallery practices and values that are held in place and made 'normal' by social relations. It explores parody, legitimised transgression and fictitious narrative at first hand and reveals the authority that the museum carries with it and its effects of belief. The William Morris Gallery is set in Lloyd Park, Walthamstow within the borough of Waltham Forest. The intervention An Elite Experience for Everyone is a performance in which attention is paid to the slippage between language forms in the gallery or museum environment. As with many London boroughs, issues of overcrowded, unsuitable accommodation and unemployment are real concerns. The contrast between the living conditions enjoyed by the Morris family in the nineteenth century and the conditions in which many residents of Walthamstow currently find themselves is stark. After the filming came the editing and then the performance was presented as a DVD playing in the foyer of the gallery.
