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
Michael Peel
Walking, Waiting, Working
Issue Twelve, 1981
Order Form
Issue Five, 1969
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
Postcard from Printed Matter
1981
Herve Fischer
Manifesto No 2 for Sociological Art
Issue Nine, 1975
Vito Acconci
Preliminary Proposal for Museum Lawn, Williams College
Issue Eighteen, 2009
Sue Arrowsmith
Issue Thirteen, 1982
Ernest Edmonds
Video Construct Communication Systems
Issue Fourteen, 1990
Alan Murray
My Statement in the Gallery is the Reason for the Successful Manual in the Box
Issue Fifteen, 1996
Letter from Dan Mitchell
2001
Contributors 2000–2009
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
FrenchMottershead
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
Flyer for Art Intervention Seminars
2002
Peter Cook
Archigram Group
Issue Three, 1967
The Bookshop, Sunderland
1970
Victor Burgin
Carton Programme
Issue Four, 1968
Dan Graham
Projects
Issue Eleven, 1979
Flyer for Issue Thirteen
1982
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
Peter Dunn & Loraine Leeson
The East London Health Project
Issue Eleven, 1979