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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Contributors 1970–1979

Issue Eleven 1979

Tony Rickaby
Stephen Willats
Ray Barrie
Mary Kelly
Fern Tiger
Dieter Hacker
Gallerie in Friedrichstrasse
Peter Dunn & Loraine Leeson
Dan Graham
Raimund Kummer & Hermann Pitz

Issue Ten 1977

Jon Bird
Peter Dunn & Loraine Leeson
Jane Kelly
Mary Kelly
Stephen Willats

Issue Nine 1975

Peter Smith
Dan Graham
Herve Fischer
Stephen Willats
Landfried Schroepfer
Alan Sondheim
Kevin Lole
John Walker

Issue Eight 1974

Kevin Lole
Erling Steen Petersen
Joe Wilson
Andrew Ironside
Stephen Willats
Gerald Laing
John Stezaker

Issue Seven 1973

Kevin Lole
Peter Smith
Stephen Willats
Howard O’Conner
John Stezaker

Issue Six 1971

Stroud Cornock
Jan Kopinski,
Stephen Willats
John Sharkey
Andy McKay
Ernest Edmonds
George Mallen
Jack Shotbolt
David Budgen

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Anish Kapoor
Issue Thirteen, 1982

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Order Form
Issue Four, 1968

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Contributors 1960–1969

Issue Five 1969

Laurie Burt
Don Mason
Logie Barrow
John Sharkey
Rick Oginz
Roy Ascott
Douglas Sandle
Stephen Willats
Artists Placement Group

Issue Four 1968

Victor Burgin
Norman Toynton
Derrick Woodham
John Sharkey
Logie Barrow
Stephen Willats
Douglas Sandle
Don Mason
Eric Brown

Issue Three 1967

Peter Stroud
Joe Tilson
Noel Forster
Peter Cook
John Latham
Stephen Willats
Peter Upward
John Sharkey
Logie Barrow

Issue Two 1966

Anthony Benjamin
Stroud Cornock
Adrian Berg
Stephen Willats
Mike Kenny
Tom Phillips

Issue One 1965

Logie Barrow
Roy Ascot
Stephen Willats
Mark Boyle
Dean Bradley

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Postcard from Printed Matter
1981

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Endre Tot
Total Joys
Issue Fourteen, 1990

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A Short Survey of CONTROL Magazine 1965–2017

In 1965 Stephen Willats was in touch with a group of artists, designers and art theoreticians to put together a new art magazine, which came to be called Control. It cost £67 to print, 450 copies were made and sold for 3/- each, as a not-for-profit magazine without adverts or any other commercial linkage, selling mostly through independent bookshops and, in addition, there was a small exhibition of the magazine at a book shop in Charing Cross Road. Issue One was anonymous, with no date and no Editor... continue reading

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Alan Murray
My Statement in the Gallery is the Reason for the Successful Manual in the Box
Issue Fifteen, 1996

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Contributors 1980–1989

Issue Thirteen 1982

Bill Woodrow
Glenys Johnson
Jenny Holzer
David Evans & Sam Burford
Kate Blacker
Jean-Luc Vilmouth
Stephen Willats
Sue Arrowsmith
Tony Bevan
Tony Cragg
Anish Kapoor

Issue Twelve 1981

Lili Fischer
Stephen Willats
Helen Chadwick
Michael Peel
Bernhard Sandfort
Fred Forest
Gallerie in Friedrichstrasse
F & F Schule für Experimentelle Gastaltung Zürich

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Flyer for Issue Thirteen
1982

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Mary Kelly
Notes on Reading the Post Partum Document
Issue Ten, 1977

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Joe Tilson
Item
Issue Three, 1967

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Langlands and Bell
Issue Seventeen, 2007

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Contributors 2010–2019

Issue Twenty One 2019

Helen Walker & Harun Morrison, They Are Here
Pete Clarke
Lucie Kolb
Gary Bratchford and Robert Parkinson
Rebecca Davies & Eva Sajovic, People's Bureau
Eliana Otta
Stephen Willats
Javier Calderton, Chalton Gallery

Issue Twenty 2017

Merlin Carpenter
Bedfellows
Francisco Camacho Herrera
Radio Anti
Stephen Willats
Eliana Otta
Gladstone Thompson
Johanna Gustaffson Fürst

Issue Nineteen 2014

Christian Nyampeta
Rosalie Schweiker
Ricardo Basbaum
Andrea Francke
Emma Smith
Stephen Willats
Eva Weinmayr
Ross Taylor & Madalina Zaharia
Luke Cohen
Laura Wilson

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Ernest Edmonds
Video Construct Communication Systems
Issue Fourteen, 1990

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Ricardo Basbaum
9 Choreographic Diagrams
Issue Nineteen, 2014

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Flyer for Art Intervention Seminars
2002

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Stephen Willats
Thisway-
Issue Twenty, 2017

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Gerald Laing
Hybrid
Issue Eight, 1974

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