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In 1968 Lawrence Weiner formulated his famous ?Declaration of Intent? which became a manifesto of Conceptual Art:

1. The artist may construct the piece.
2. The piece may be fabricated.
3. The piece need not be built. Each being equal and consistent with the intent of the artist the decision as to condition rests with the receiver upon the occasion of receivership.

After a prolific career of more than forty years, his art remains singularly relevant today. Following his highly acclaimed retrospective As far as the eye can see (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York), Lawrence Weiner discusses his work with art historian and critic John Slyce.

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Artist Christian Marclay is renowned for his collages of music, sculpture, film and image. Marclay?s best-known works include Recycled Records, 1980-86, collages of broken and reassembled vinyl record still playable on the turntable; the video Guitar Drag, 2000, which features an amplified Fender guitar attached to a rope being pulled behind a pick-up truck; Video Quartet, 2002, a five-screen montage of great and/or obscure musical moments and The Sounds of Christmas shown at Tate Modern in 2004. Marclay, who is now based in Britain, recently had a solo show at White Cube.

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Love them or loathe them Art Fairs are here to stay. Part of the art market, art fairs don’t just benefit dealers and collectors but artists too, so why do so many art critics despise them? Isn’t it time to move the debate along from the default position of ‘museum shows good: art fairs bad?’

Panel: Pryle Berhman, Lisa Le Feuvre, Peter Suchin

The two artists in conversation.

In 2001 Atelier Van Lieshout realised AVL-Ville, a ?free state? in the port of Rotterdam, the biggest work of art by Atelier van Lieshout to date. This free state is a mix of art environment and sanctuary, full of well-known and new works by AVL, with the special attraction that everything is fully operational. Not art to simply look at, but to live with, to live in and to live by. In 2002 AVL has recently located its first AVL-Ville export product in Park Middelheim in Antwerp: the AVL Franchise Unit. One of the most recent projects of AVL is SlaveCity, an up-to-date concentration camp, a sinister disutopian project which is very rational, efficient and profitable. The inhabitants of the city work in vast patterns of seven hours; they work in the CallCenters and also labour to maintain the city. SlaveCity is the first ?zero energy? town of this size in the world and functions without imported mineral fuel or electricity.

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The influential American artist interviewed by Iwona Blazwick.

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David Ryan and Kirsten Norrie are both artists and both musicians, Sally O’Reilly is a critic and curator of performance events and all three write for Art Monthly. They discussed the crossovers between music, performance and other art forms and tried to address some of problems of definition that arise as a result. They tackled the common questions about interdisciplinarity such as how do you critique or react to a work which combines more than one art form? How context affects the work – when music is played within an art context and vice versa? What difference can the audience make if the work is ‘participatory’, ‘interactive’, or ‘transactive’?

Worlds within Worlds: The Institutions of Art

‘If institutionalisation once lurked ominously in the distance for the avant-garde radical, today it is instantaneous, ubiquitous and unexceptional.’ – Dave Beech

Are today’s artists powerless to resist institutionalisation?

The Art Monthly panel will attempt to define the concepts of ‘institutionalisation’ in art and ‘the institutions of art’ and debate the changing practice of institutional critique, including the phenomenon of self-institutionalisation which, arguably, has superseded it.

Hans Haacke, known for his incisive, unflinchingly political works exposing systems of power and influence both within and without the art world, gives his first interview in this country since his two major retrospectives in Germany earlier this year.

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The Camera Never Lies?

Despite the crimes committed in the name of photographic truth are photographs themselves innocent? With Art Monthly critics Craig Burnett, Alison Green, Axel Lapp and Julian Stallabrass.