CONTROL: ISSUE SEVENTEEN (Rare edition)

Softcover | 23 x 30 cm | 28 pp

Control Magazine | 2007

The art practices that are represented in this issue have in their various ways centred on the issues of meaning and function, and their counter consciousness to the object, property-based determinism of prevailing contemporary culture.

An important aspect to the development of the work represented in Control Magazine has been the fostering of a network of relationships between artists and their modus operandi. Central to the feedback in these relationships is the practice of explanation, thus introducing a state of mutuality, an open social network, that is a catalyst for the progression of ideas.

Contributors

• FrenchMottershead: Shops
• Jakob Jakobsen: Free Class, Copenhagen 2005–2006
• Dan Kidner: City Projects
• Langlands & Bell
• Emma Hedditch: A Pattern: A Portable Video Camera
• Nils Norman
• Miriam Steinhauser: On the Prowl
• Elly Clarke: Hackney to Siberia
• Fritz Haeg: Buildings, Gardens & Happenings
• Stephen Willats: Parallel Worlds
• Johnny Spencer: If I Say It’s Not Art, It’s Not Art
• Chris Hammond: The Disappearing Artist
• Ricardo Basbaum
• Phil Coy

About CONTROL Magazine

Founded in 1965 by the British artist and conceptual designer, Stephen Willats (born 1943), CONTROL remains one of the few artists' publications from the 1960s thriving to this day. The magazine acts as a vehicle for proposals and explanations of art practice between artists seeking to create a meaningful engagement with contemporary society.

Published and edited by Stephen Willats, this pioneering magazine has documented the work of many artists, both from the UK and abroad and encouraged a wide discussion of artists’ practices. It has included contributions and original pieces from an extensive range of artists over its eighteen issues. Since 1965, the magazine has published work and writing by over 150 artists, including John Latham, Roy Ascot, Anthony Benjamin, Dan Graham, Mary Kelly, Helen Chadwick, Tony Cragg, Dennis Adams, Lawrence Weiner, Anish Kapoor, Martha Rosler, Jeremy Deller, alongside collectives and collaboratives such as Gallerie in Friedrichstrasse, Artists Placement Group and early producer’s galleries such as that of Dieter Hacker. Many of the artists have made artwork specially for the magazine.

CONTROL Magazine’s function has always been to provide a resource for artists to discuss their work and, in particular, to make connections with other disciplines such as social or computer sciences, technology etc. Its eighteen issues provide a unique record of a specific area of art practice over four decades and this non-profit making publication has had an acknowledged influence on the practice of artists.