No. 433, February 2020 Cover
Alex Margo Arden & Caspar Heinemann, The farmyard is not a violent place and I look exactly like Judy Garland 2019, performance
Features 1 Prem Sahib
Interviewed by Paul Carey-Kent 6 Sickness and Solidarity
Sarah E James highlights the need to tackle the causes of depression and transform it from privatised despair into political action 10 Sleep
Marcus Verhagen fears the unconscious is no longer a motor of creativity but an object of both biopolitical regulation and commercial exploitation 15 Sung Tieu
Profile by Adam Hines-Green
News & Comment 17 Editorial 18 Artnotes 19 Letter
Jes Fernie 23 Obituary
John Baldessari
Art Monthly taking art apart since 1976
Reviews Exhibitions 24 Theatre of Operations:
The Gulf Wars 1991–2011 Gemma Sharpe 25 Homelands: Art from
Bangladesh, India and Pakistan Virginia Whiles 26 Hans Haacke: All Connected
Alexander Massouras 27 Derek Jarman: PROTEST!
The Last of England Joanne Laws 29 Hilary Lloyd: Car Park
Mark Prince 30 Hot Moment
Maria Walsh 31 Nobuko Tsuchiya:
30 Ways to Go to the Moon Mike Pinnington 32 Emilio Prini
Martin Holman 34 Daphne Wright: A quiet mutiny
Maeve Connolly 34 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of
Contemporary Art: Immortality Agnieszka Gratza 35 A.O.–B.C. An Audiovisual Diary
Hana Noorali Performance 37 Alex Margo Arden & Caspar
Heinemann: The farmyard is not a violent place and I look exactly like Judy Garland Larne Abse Gogarty Artists’ Books 38 David Blandy: The World After
Lauren Velvick Books 39 Huw Lemmey: Red Tory –
My Corbyn Chemsex Hell, William E Jones: I’m Open to Anything Andrew Hibbard Sound 40 London Contemporary Music
Festival: Witchy Methodologies Irene Revell
Reports 41 Letter from Bangkok and Taipei
Chris McCormack 43 Letter from Aotearoa / New Zealand
Louise Shelley 45 Artlaw
Henry Lydiate 46 Listings
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