Behavioural Art, Rosetta Brooks, 1973

‘THE ARTIST AS AN INSTIGATOR OF CHANGES IN SOCIAL COGNITION AND BEHAVIOUR’, DOCUMENTATION ON RECENT PROJECTS BY STEPHEN WILLATS, IS AT GALLERY HOUSE, LONDON, FROM 12 JANUARY 1973.  

The prevalence of scepticism amongst artists has in some sense been a contributory factor in the move towards a more theoretically sophisticated art in recent years, perhaps to compensate for the ramifications of a realm empty of ideas or meaning. Many artists of this generation in Britain have reacted to the... continue reading

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Flyer for Art Intervention Seminars
2002

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Issue Eighteen 2009

Vito Acconci
Karolin Meunier
Stephen Willats
Erwin van Doorn
Dan Mitchell
Annette Krauss
Thomas Hirschhorn
Harmen de Hoop
Steve Rushton
Ricardo B

Issue Seventeen 2007

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Jakob Jakobsen
Dan Kidner
Langlands & Bell
Emma Hedditch
Nils Norman
Miriam Steinhauser
Elly Clarke
Fritz Haeg
Stephen Willats
Johnny Spencer
Chris Hammond
Ricardo Basbaum
Phil Coy

Issue Sixteen 2001

Jakob Jakobsen
David Goldenberg
Jesus Cruzvillegas
Art Lab
Nils Norman, Elinor Jansz,
Christabel Stewart & Emily Pethick
Hamish Fulton
Sarah Staton
David Beech
Heinrich Sachs
Stephen Willats
Wolfgang Spanier

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Peter Cook & Loraine Leeson
Adjusting Culture to Practical Function — Reflections and Projections
Issue 10, 1977

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Langlands and Bell
Issue Seventeen, 2007

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Stephen Willats, Control Magazine, Studio International, 1976

CONTROL MAGAZINE
Stephen Willats

Control Magazine is published and edited by Stephen Willats at 5 London Mews, London W2. The Magazine was started by myself in 1965, as an occasional journal that centred on the development of a socially relevant theory and practice in art. Right from the magazine’s inception it has been seen as a manifestation of the editorial standpoint for models of information associated with the concept of self-determinism. As an ideology the concept of... continue reading
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Anish Kapoor
Issue Thirteen, 1982

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Nils Norman
Issue Seventeen, 2007

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Contributors 1990–1999

Issue Fifteen 1996

Poster Studio
Edwin David
Stephen Dillemuth
Alan Murray
Denise Hawrysio
Oliver Whitehead
Alan Kane & Jeremy Deller
Sarah Staton
Mathew Higgs
Oliver Cieslik & Barbara Schenk
Mat Vaassen
Les Levine
Liam Gillick
Stephen Willats
Katie Bowden & Helen Eger

Issue Fourteen 1990

Mark Lewis
Andrew Wilson
Daniel Dewaele
Lawrence Weiner
Rita Pacquee
Andreas Seltzer
Marc Scheppers
Stephen Bann & Bob Chaplin
Martha Rosler
Stephen Willats
Ivan Dusanek
Michael Gibbs
Christian Phillip Muller
Endre Tot
Ernest Edmonds
Simon Cutts & Colin Sackett
Art Creating Society–Symposium
at the MOMA Oxford, June 1st–3rd 1990