» CONTENTS November 2004
Issue No 281
COVER Tacita Dean Boots 2003 film still
01 INTERVIEW
Lost in Translation Tacita Dean interviewed by Maria Walsh
07 FEATURES
Location, Location Claire Doherty on the biennale and the city
1 3
COMMENT EDITORIAL
14
NEWS ARTNOTES
18 PROFILE
Richard Hughes David Barrett
20 REVIEWS
EXHIBITIONS Rear View Mirror Mark Wilsher 22 Steve McQueen
Cherry Smyth 23 Liverpool Biennial
Craig Burnett 25 Independents 04
David Briers 27 Bloomberg New
Contemporaries 2004 Martin Herbert 2 8 Stephen Prina
Andrew Wilson 30 Lari Pittman
Eliza Williams 3’ Ed Ruscha
Mark Godfrey 32 Living Dust
Lucy Steeds
34 Martin Creed
Sally O’Reilly 35 John Bock
Sarah James 36 Real World: The
Dissolving Space of Experience Sara Harrison 39 a r t is t s ’ b o o k s
Cover Versions Stephen Bury 40 BOOKS
Conceptual Art Paula Feldman
41 ARTLAW
Contracts Henry Lydiate
42 LISTINGS
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