The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth — it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true. Eccl...

Ellen Harvey - Local Landscapes (2004) Site Specific installation for the Project in Los Angeles.

Jonathan Monk A Poster Project 2011 

Affichages Sauvages - 1968 - Present

the subconscious art of graffiti removal (excerpt) from matt mccormick on Vimeo . 16mm/Digital video – 16 minutes – 2001

Robert Rauschenberg Erased de Kooning 1953

"...When we are forty, other younger and stronger men will probably throw us in the wastebasket like useless manuscripts - we want it t...

Maurizio Cattelan We Are The Revolution 2000 The Fat Is On The Table, Maurizio Cattelan on Joseph Beuys First published in Tate Etc , Spr...

Performance - 1965

Marcus Coates on Tate Shots

Rasa Todosijevic - Drinking Water (1974)

Paul McCarthy Hot Dog 1974

Janine Atoni - Gnaw (1992) In Atoni's performance piece  Gnaw,  two 300kg cubes of chocolate and lard are placed on marble plinths...

During these last decades the interest in professional fasting has markedly diminished. It used to pay very well to stage such great perfor...

Martin Kippenberger - The Happy End of Franz Kafka's 'Amerika' (1994)

Jason Rhoades The Creation Myth  1998

Tomoko Takahashi's installation 'My Playstation' at the Serpentine Gallery in 2005 saw the collection 7,600 objects.  All do...

Vito Acconci Room Situation 1970 Detail and documentation.

In 1992 Rirkrit Tiravanija staged his seminal work Untitled 1992 (Free) , a performative and interactive installation in the office of th...

Gotham Handbook first appeared in 1999 as part of Double Game , a bookwork by French artist Sophie Calle. It is a document of a collaborati...

In 1982 Agnes Denes staged 'Wheatfield - A Confrontation'. Where she planted a two-acre field of wheat in a vacant lot in downtow...

In August 1956, a tract signed by the groups preparing the founding of the SI [Situationist International] called for the boycott of a wou...

The Temporary Autonomous Zone is a book by social theorist, philosopher and anarchist Hakim Bey .  Comprised of eight chapters the book ...

Guinea Pigs Up The Creek by Adam Curtis Adam Curtis is the documentary filmmaker behind series such as The Century Of The Self and T...

An Audio-Visual installation, of 3 synchronized slide carrousels and sound 12 minutes. Each slide machine fades through a series of yellow...

Stan Douglas' 1998 film Win, Place or Show : A two-channel video in which the film's protagonists, Donny and Bob, talk, argue...

Recently shown at Fred gallery in London. Stuart Crofts film The Death Waltz is a eery recount of a ghost story at a dinner party. In a st...

Bruce Nauman's Walking in an Exaggerated Manner Around the Perimeter of a Square (1967-68) in which Bruce Nauman walks, in an exaggerat...