ART SOCIETY FEEDBACK is the first comprehensive monographic publication on the work of the British artist Stephen Willats. From the 1960s until today, Stephen Willats has developed a pioneering practice based on collaboration, interactivity and participation. His works, which are structured like charts and are frequently based on workshops in social focal points with a large number of participants, are intended to encourage viewers to engage with their own creative and cognitive processes, and thereby to examine and transform the way they perceive existing reality.

With texts from Ute Meta Bauer, Brigitte Franzen, Tom Holert, Emily Pethick and Andrew Wilson.

An edition produced in 2005 on the occasion of the exhibition series Critical Societies, which took place in four stages from 24 March–22 November, 2005 at the Badischer Kunstverein. Karslruhe.

Stephen Willats has made work examining the function and meaning of art in society since the 1960s. His work has involved interdisciplinary processes and theory from sociology, systems analysis, cybernetics, semiotics and philosophy. This manifests in wall installations, project works, films & computer simulations, drawings & diagrams, bookworks and texts.

For decades, Maurizio Nannucci has preserved exhibition invitation cards. The collection comprises both invitations and announcements from artists whose approaches to art are close to his own. Yet many also come from wider circles of artist friends, colleagues, galleries, and museums, allowing a chronology of relationships and information exchanges to emerge. The selection in this volume makes visible how this kind of communication – often conceived by the artists themselves – superimposes the purely informative value of the printed matter with the freedom of artistic expression; evidence of a holistic practice where such cards can become artworks in their own right.

Stephen Willats has made work examining the function and meaning of art in society since the 1960s. His work has involved interdisciplinary processes and theory from sociology, systems analysis, cybernetics, semiotics and philosophy. This manifests in wall installations, project works, films & computer simulations, drawings & diagrams, bookworks and texts.

Featuring Joseph Beuys, Les Levine, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Stephen Willats, New Records & Tapes, Turner Prize, Audie Awards.

Audio Arts was a British sound magazine published on audio cassettes, documenting contemporary artistic activity via artist or curator interviews, sound performances or sound art by artists.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

Produced on the occasion of Stephen Willats’ exhibition World Without Objects at Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp 13 October–30 November, 2013.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.