INTRODUCING

Artist Ivan Liotchev approached us with an ongoing conversation between himself and his colleague Joe McDonough, discussing fascinating and urgent topics, ranging from the value of art anthropologically to the issues of today's art school and today's contemporary art world. Historically art has always managed to progress through changes and challenges, truthfully reflecting the emotions and the intelligence of the time, the world, and the individual. Issue 11: state of art sets out to examine the western art world now from the points of view of artists, practitioners working within education, public and commercial sectors in the UK, questioning the status quo, reviewing where we have been and contemplating on where we are going.

	State of Art Conversations Part 1: Joe McDonough Talks to Ivan Liotchev "Do you think this is what good work does…that at its heart it’s really just very simple? " read more Part 2: Joe McDonough Talks to Janusz Welin and Jason Keller "I think my weirdly personal attachment to art comes from feeling that art is, perhaps, the last field available to us for true experimentation." read more Part 3: INTRODUCING Talks to Ivan Liotchev "I guess I take on an individualistic stance, in that I think my work is a culmination of all the fears and anxieties I have about the world, art world included, but it doesn’t pinpoint anything in particular." read more
	In Conversation with Bruce McLean "We haven’t got the luxury of making mistakes. You don’t even have that in an art school, and that’s when you should be making mistakes." read more
	In Conversation with Ann Liv Young "I think in some ways Sherry is like I don’t fucking make performance, performance isn’t even lucky enough to have me make performance. This is real Christian Rock! Or something like that, I just feel so cynical towards the whole notion of the art world and performance art and even the title, performance art, it just seems that so much of it is silly! " read more
	In Conversation with Richard Wentworth "I think that one of the important conditions is to feel very insecure about what you know." read more
	In Conversation with Charlotte Bonham-Carter (ICA) "When we think about our public, it is not only the people who come into the gallery but also the artist whom we work with and one of our core values or priorities is that the ICA as an institution is an artist led institution." read more
	In Conversation with Jeffrey Boloten (ArtInsight) "It is a tough issue - artists don’t work in isolated little boxes and inevitably are going to become influenced by what is happening in the international marketplace." read more