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By Christopher Eamon/ PUBLIC 46: Prime Mover is a selection of five essays corresponding to five hypothetical exhibitions of works from an influential private collection with which Eamon was professionally involved for more than ten years. The collection, one of the first in private hands to focus almost exclusively on time-based media, has been the [...]

| Spring 2012 | Edited by Jim Drobnick and Jennifer Fisher / This issue of PUBLIC considers how large-scale events have challenged conventional understandings of audience, spectacle, and what it means to “view” art. The recent success of Nuit Blanche, for instance, breeds a paradox: in one night, the number of visitors often surpasses the [...]

| Fall 2011 | Edited by Peggy Gale / Contents ‘An Open Field: Experimental Media’ [Editor's Introduction] ‘Cultural Engineering’, Tom Sherman ‘Medium Practices’, Nicky Hamlyn ‘Excerpts from the Strategic Reality Dictionary’, Konrad Becker ‘On Medium Specificity’, Michael Snow ‘Words at Issue’, Christina Battle ‘The Time of the Audiovisual and Multimedia Archive’ / ‘Le Temps des [...]

| Spring 2011 | Edited by Steven Logan, Janine Marchessault, and Michael Prokopow Please note: Stand-alone catalogue of The Leona Drive Project is still available here. Overview: This issue explores the Suburbs as dwelling in transition, as utopian vision, a way of life, a built form and as a significant economic and political dimension of [...]

| Fall 2010 | Edited by Chloë Brushwood Rose and Mario Di Paolantonio Contents: Editors’ Introduction, ‘Traces’ Vikki Bell, ‘On Shoes and Shadows: Political Ethics in the Art of Graciela Sacco’ Elke Grenzer, ‘Material Losses’ Sara Matthews ‘Tracing the Human: Memory and the Visual Frame in The Hero Book’ Angela Failler with artwork by Eisha [...]

| Spring 2010 | Editors: Erin Despard and Monika Kin Gagnon Contents: ‘Introduction’, Erin Despard and Monkia Kin Gagnon ‘L’Homme symbiotique’, ‘Symbolic Man’, Gilles Clément ‘La position de Melle: Jardin d’eau – jardin d’orties’, ‘Melle’s Position: Jardin d’eau – jardin d’orties’, Gilles Clément ‘The Hidden Value of Allotment Gardens in the Urban Context: The Alex [...]

| Fall 2009 | Editors: Susan Lord, Dorit Naaman and Jennifer VanderBurgh Contents: ‘Auditorium, Maratha Mandir, Mumbai’, Zubin Pastakia ‘The Kiss’, Kelly Mark ‘Introduction’, Susan Lord, Dorit Naaman, and Jennifer VanderBurgh ‘The Wars of Air and Electricity’ Holly Lewis ‘Screening Rooms: The Movie Theatre in/and the Gallery’, Erika Balsom ‘Data Dances: The Aesthetics of Surveillance, [...]

| Spring 2009 | Editor: Nina Möntmann Contents: ‘Introduction’, Nina Möntmann ‘New Communities’, Nina Möntmann ‘Experimental Communities’, Carlos Basualdo and Reinaldo Laddaga ‘Collaboration in Art and Society: A Global Pursuit of Democratic Dialogue’, Nikos Papastergiadis ‘Complications; On Collaboration, Agency and Contemporary Art’, Maria Lind ‘The Affectivist Manifesto. Artistic Critique in the Twenty-First Century’, Brian Holmes [...]

| Fall 2008 | Editors: Gregory Burke and Christine Davis Artists’ Projects: ‘Black Out’, Glenn Ligon ‘Adventures of Deary’, Mark von Schlegell ‘Six Collages’, Christina Forrer ‘Perversions of Empire: The Concrete Oracles’, Seher Shah ‘Will Someone Please Explain It to Me, I’ve Just Become a Radical’, Matthew Buckingham ‘War Porn’, Fiona Banner Maria Eichhorn ‘Ten [...]

| Spring 2008 | Editors: Aleksandra Kaminska, Janine Marchessault and Jason Rovito Content: ‘Introduction’, Aleksandra Kaminska, Janine Marchessault and Jason Rovito ‘The Crystal Palace’, Peter Sloterdijk ‘The Joy of Work as Participation’, Dorothy Lee ‘Aesthetic Challenges for Cognition in Public Space’, Martin Morris ‘Bobok: From Somebody’s Diary’, Fyodor Dostoyevsky ‘The Publicness of Melodrama in the [...]

| Fall 2007 | Editors: Deborah Root and Kathryn Walter Content: ‘Introduction’, Deborah Root and Kathryn Watler ‘Mr Gupta and the Madam from Canada’, P.K. Bassi ‘Austerity Measures’, Kenneth Hayes ‘Revisiting Critical Theory in the Post-September 11th World: Identity, Security, and Democratic Governance’, E. Fuat Keyman ‘Evolving Ideas About Security’, Jane Boulden ‘Civilization: Ongoing Holocausts’, [...]

| Spring 2007 | Curator: Wayne Baerwaldt Content ‘Avant-propos’, Claude Gosselin ‘Foreword’, Claude Gosselin ‘Remuer ciel et terre’, Wayne Baerwaldt ‘Crack the Sky’, Wayne Baerwaldt ‘The Artists in the Biennale’ ‘Biographies and Works’ ‘Venues’ Overview: This full colour issue is a collaboration with the Centre International D’Art Contemporain of Montreal and curator Wayne Baerwaldt of [...]

| Fall 2006 | Editors: Chloë Brushwood Rose and Caitlin Fisher Content ‘Introduction’, Chlöe Brushwood Rose, Caitlin Fisher ‘What’s in the Box? How Mundanity and Terror Are Modulated in the Blogging of Trauma’, Ben Hoh ‘Interview with Hasan Elahi’, Lynn Cazabon ‘Story Wearables: An Alternative Autobiography’, Xiao Li Tan ‘360º’, Caitlin Fisher ‘Dear Miss Millicent [...]

| Spring 2006 | Editors: An Te Liu and Andrew Payne Content: ‘Mistakes’, Olia Mishchenko ‘Introduction’, An Te Liu and Andrew Payne ‘Once There Were Revolutions: Now There Are Only Surprises’, Ian Hacking ‘Eureka’’, Edgar Allan Poe ‘Aleatory Writing: Notes Toward a Poetics of Chance’, Christian Bök ‘Floating Trial’, Adam Gilders ‘fades’, Carsten Nicolai ‘Three [...]

| Fall 2005 | Editors: Saara Liinamaa, Janine Marchessault and Karyn Sandlos Content ‘Introduction’, Saara Liinamaa, Janine Marchessault, and Karyn Sandlos ‘The Heuristics of Contemporary Urban Art Interventions’, George Yúdice ‘Of Treasures and Trash: BookCrossing, Mark Dion’s Tate Thames Dig and the (lost) objects of urban intervention’, Saara Liinamaa ‘The Cure by Love’, Kaja Silverman [...]

| Spring 2005 | Editors: Glenn Gear, Susan Lord, Dorit Naaman, Matt Soar and Miriam Verburg ‘Sorting it out at the Salvation Army: Reflections on Work, Class and the Art of Research’, Kim Sawchuk with Donald Goodes, Rob Lendrum, Vanessa Chu and Andrea-Jane Cornell ‘Democratic Materials’, Sean Cubitt ‘2 Minutes and 50 Seconds Silence (For [...]

SOLD OUT | Fall 2004 | Editor: Scott Toguri McFarlane Content ‘A Peaceful Penetration’, Renay Egami ‘Krispy Kreme’, Chris Woods ‘Introduction’, Scott Toguri Mcfarlane ‘The Fruits of Resistance: Reading Portrait of a Negro Slave on the Sly’, Charmaine Nelson ‘Where Ghosts and Tourists Dine: The Pure and the Hybrid in Louisiana Creole Cultures’, Bertie Mandelblatt [...]

| Spring 2004 | Editors: Saara Liinamaa, Janine Marchessault and Christine Shaw Contents: ‘Hombre & Camina’, Manuel Piña ‘Listening: Viaduct’, David Harris Smith ‘Phantom Images’, Harun Farocki ‘Cinema, or an Art of Urban Memory in an Age of Forgetting’, Fuyuki Kurasawa ‘Swingsite’, Corwyn Lund ‘On Being Shallow: A Rather Breathless Theoretical Mashup’, Dominic Pettman ‘Migratory [...]

| Fall 2003 | Editors: William Wood and Reid Shier Contents: Hexex / Rodney Graham Belfast Angel / Phillip McCrum Canada’s Daughter / Althea Thauberger Max & Moritz / Michael Turner, Illustrations by Geoffrey Farmer Saddam’s Arms / Marina Roy 200 Sex Offenders / Michael Euyung Oh Offensive / William Wood Five Coloured Words in [...]

| Spring 2003 | Editors: Rebecca Garret, Deborah Root and Dot Tuer Contents: ‘Price List from the Recycling Box’, Blue Republic ‘CHUCKY’, Alberto Gomez ‘Creature Comforts’, Mike Hansen ‘The Delights and Discontents of Shopping’, Güliz Ger ‘Shoes from the Pavement’, Berry Bickle ‘The Unspeakable State of Sliced Bread Sandwiches’, Christopher Cozier ‘Contemporary Sculpture’, Claude Closky [...]