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Issue 86 October 2004

Mainstream films are increasingly employing narrative fragmentation and non-linearity – attributes more commonly associated with experimental cinema by Jonathan Romney

Film

Et in Arcadia Ego

In June this year a few hundred people gathered in a terraced field in a remote part of Arcadia in Greece to witness the world premiere of the opening cycles of Gregory Markopoulos' 80-hour film Eniaios (1947-91) by Mark Webber

Monograph

Close Watch

Marc Camille Chaimowicz' work is intoxicated by longing; yearning for a place never lived in but rather dreamt of or briefly tasted by Dan Fox

Interview

Hear here

An interview with Bruce Nauman about his commission for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, poetry, architecture, sound and language by Joan Simon

City Report

Tehran

After the 1979 revolution art in Iran seemed to have no future beyond what was considered compatible with the new Islamic orthodoxy. But today, counter to clichéd expectations that only expatriates could produce interesting contemporary work, a lively contemporary art scene flourishes in Tehran. Three views.

Focus

Tommy Støckel

How is geometry susceptible to meaning? Is time travel possible? In which direction does space curve? How do journeys to other dimensions appear to the naked eye? by Lars Bang Larsen

Focus

Ryan Gander

‘More and more often there is embarrassment all around when the wish to hear a story is expressed. It is as if something that seemed inalienable to us, the securest among our possessions, were taken from us: the ability to exchange experiences.’ Walter Benjamin, ‘The Storyteller’, Illuminations (1923) by Mark Beasley

Focus

Anselm Reyle

These works hover uncertainly in the present by Kirsty Bell

Focus

Ernesto Caivano

Identity is something you perform – a performance restrained by norms and expectations by Peter Eleey

Monograph

Women on the Verge

In Lisa Yuskavage’s paintings an ever-present edge of uncertainty articulates a near hallucinogenic vision of femininity by Jennifer Higgie

Monograph

Roll With It

Urs Fischer’s work is characterized by happy accidents – slips of the hand and mind that can transform even the ugliest of ducklings into a weirdly beautiful swan by Tom Morton

Questionnaire