Going Round a Corner – Stephen Willats

About Stephen Willats

For six decades, Stephen Willats has concentrated on ideas that today are ever-present in contemporary art: communication, social engagement, active spectatorship, and self-organisation, and has initiated many seminal multi-media art projects. Rather than presenting visitors with icons of certainty he creates a random, complex environment which stimulates visitors to engage in their own creative process.

Recent solo institutional exhibitions include Languages of Dissent at Migros Museum, Zürich (2019). His work has also recently been featured in the Chicago Architecture Biennial (2019– 2020), Still Undead: Popular Culture in Britain Beyond the Bauhaus at Nottingham Contemporary (2019–2020), Pushing Paper: Contemporary Drawing from 1970 to Now at the British Museum (2019–2020), Objects of Wonder, British Sculpture 1950s–Present, featuring works from the Tate collection, at the PalaisPopulaire, Berlin (2019).

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About Control Magazine

Control Magazine acts as a vehicle for proposals and explanations of art practice between artists seeking to create a meaningful engagement with contemporary society. Published and edited by Willats, this pioneering magazine has documented the work of many artists, both from the UK and abroad and encouraged a wide discussion of artists’ practices. Since 1965, it has included contributions and original pieces from an extensive range of artists over its eighteen issues – including John Latham, Dan Graham, Mary Kelly, Helen Chadwick, Tony Cragg, Lawrence Weiner, Anish Kapoor, Martha Rosler and Jeremy Deller.

Stephen Willats: Control, a project and events programme held at Tate Liverpool in 2018, was the first retrospective devoted to Control Magazine.

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