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Issue 87 November-December 2004

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When colour theory is no longer enough by Robert Storr

Another Brick in the Wall

Six years ago the run-down Kingsdale School in south London was threatened with closure - until architects dRMM were invited to help with its regeneration; they later invited artist Joep van Lieshout to contribute to the scheme.

Books

Molotov Cocktails

Tom Wolfe’s 1970 essay ‘Radical Chic’ explores the decadent relationship between wealth, glamour and extremist politics – and is as relevant today as it was 34 years ago by Michael Bracewell

State of the Art

When is art political? by Dan Fox

Interview

Language Factory

An interview with Mel Bochner on words, portraits, Roget’s Thesaurus, colour, Jorge Luis Borges, humour, nostalgia and political engagement by Mark Godfrey

Monograph

Mirror, Mirror

Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan’s sculptures, installations and performances mine the space between what you want from something and what that something has to give by Tom Morton

Focus

Bjorn Dahlem

Last year the Hubble Space Telescope took a long, hard, deep look at what appears to be a nearly empty spot inthe night sky near the constellation Fornax by Dominic Eichler

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Saskia Olde Wolbers

She is a mightly fabulist, an artist who creates vast and lanyrinthine worlds which she uses as settings for miasmic tales of longing and delusion by Marcus Verhagen

Focus

Nina Konnenmann

Her videos gently unhinge your sense of time and space. No special effects are used, and all the actions shown are real events, none of them what you might call spectacular by Jan Verwoert

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Anthony Burdin

One of the extraordinary things about his video is the way that they instantly draw you in, opening a rhetorical chute where you slide past the usual outposts of spectator detachment by Ralph Rugoff

Debate

Soft Machine

Even ‘hawks’ have begun to doubt that exerting ‘hard power’ – sheer military and economic strength – is enough. Cultural persuasion, or ‘soft power’, is the new buzzword by Ronald Jones