James Lingwood

Christy Lange

Larissa Michelberger

Roni Horn

Michael Morris

Surveying 40 projects realised over the past decade by film-makers, writers, visual artists, composers, choreographers and performers, this text provides a unique overview of the special alchemy generated when a location becomes central to the development of a work of art.

40 Artangel Projects

Off Limits

Adam D. Weinberg

Jen Mergel

Charles LeDray

A mid-career retrospective of artist Charles LeDray whose detailed miniature worlds have captivated many.

Workworkworkworkwork

Through the course of the 1970s and 1980s, Luigi Ghirri pursued his extraordinary project, open-ended and mercurial, marked by empathy for the changing everyday spaces of his time. Over the course of his short career, Ghirri would produce a vast body of photographs without parallel in the Europe of his time and numerous writings which would have an indelible impact on the history of photography.

The Map and the Territory

Luigi Ghirri

Derry, Glasgow, Newcastle, Plymouth : TSWA Four Cities Project

New Works for Different Places

'In the great prison where I was then incarcerated, I was merely the figure and the letter of a little cell in a long gallery. One of a thousand lifeless numbers, as of a thousand lifeless lives.' - Oscar Wilde, De ProfundisInside: Artists and Writers in Reading Prison brought together works by 23 artists and writers installed inside the empty Reading Prison, where Oscar Wilde was incarcerated between 1895-97, and the extraordinary extended letter De Profundis which he wrote in his prison cell.This book includes extensive excerpts from De Profundis alongside new letters by Ai Weiwei, Tahmima Anam, Anne Carson, Joe Dunthorne, Deborah Levy, Danny Morrison, Gillian Slovo, Binyavanga Wainaina and Jeanette Winterson reflecting on real and imaginary separations.Also featured are colour photographs of works installed inside Reading Prison by artists including Vija Celmins, Marlene Dumas, Richard Hamilton, Nan Goldin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roni Horn, Steve McQueen, and Wolfgang Tillmans.Includes and introduction by James Lingwood and Michael Morris.Published alongside an exhibition at Reading Prison, 4 September - 4 December 2016.Photo caption: Marlene Dumas, Oscar Wilde (2016)

INSIDE: ARTISTS AND WRITERS IN READING PRISON.

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