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Article: Bombs could be performance art, lecturer tells Stone trial

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September 25, 2008
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A SENIOR art lecturer said yesterday that having real nail bombs could "come under the ambit" of performace art as long as there was no intention of setting them off.

Giving evidence at the Belfast Crown Court trial of 53-year-old Michael Stone, Peter Bond, a senior art lecturer at St Martin's College in London, said that if an individual had such bombs and intended to light them, "not for one moment" could that be construed as performance art.

However, he did agree with the suggestion from defence QC Orlando Pownall that if the person had "no intention whatsoever of lighting them" that could be interpreted as artistic.

Stone, of no fixed address, denies attempting to murder Sinn Fein MLAs ...

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