In a range of their work, Heather and Ivan Morison had explored the currency of shelters and escape vehicles –…
Luca Frei – The so-called utopia of the centre beaubourg, an interpretation
Appearing under the pseudonym Gustave Affeulpin in 1976, and coinciding with the inauguration of the Centre Beaubourg in Paris, Albert…
Make Everything New: A Project on Communism
Communism is routinely defined as defeated and its conquest the subject of regular celebration. Caught in the disappointment and negative…
Ahmet Ögüt – Tahrite Bugün/Today in History
Parodying the format of a regular newspaper column, Today in History/Tarihte Bugün presents a series of drawings and paraphrased stories,…
Gest: Laboratory of Synthesis
Initiated by a series of events and discussions during the exhibition Gest at the Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, this…
Shezad Dawood – Feature Reconstruction
With a cast that included Chief Crazy Horse, Krishna, a Valkyrie, a bunch of zombies, some fetish boys, a donkey…
Roni Horn – Vatnasafn/Library of Water
For the past 30 years, the work of artist Roni Horn has been intimately involved with the distinctive geography, geology,…
Jeremy Deller – The English Civil War Part II
In 1984 the National Union of Mineworkers went on strike. The dispute lasted for over a year and was the…
Michael Landy – Break Down
Artist Michael Landy made an inventory of everything he owned: every item of furniture, every book, every piece of clothing,…
John Berger and Simon McBurney – The Vertical Line
Over four nights in February 1999, the writer and art historian John Berger and Theatre de Complicite’s director Simon McBurney…
The Missing Voice – Janet Cardiff
Commissioned by Artangel, throughout 1999 Canadian artist Janet Cardiff realised what was her most ambitious work to date then, The…
Longplayer – Jem Finer
This publication requires a bit of a preamble, as the project it relates to is seemingly simple, but has both…
Off Limits: 40 Artangel Projects
Surveying 40 projects realised over the previous decade by film-makers, writers, visual artists, composers, choreographers and performers, this book was more…
Fabrications & Book Works
In a similar vein as the publications I produced while working at Artangel, it is high time I consider the specific…
Artangel
It seems like a lifetime ago, and in many respect it is. However, the series of publications I produced in relation…