Amidst a general acceptance of the cash crisis afflicting the ICA as an accident of recession, and a headlong rush into ‘hairshirt' institutional self-critique as a way to deflect real scrutiny, JJ Charlesworth uncovers a catalogue of avoidable mistakes and the free-market, lifestyle thinking behind them

Artist Roman Vasseur was appointed ‘Lead Artist’ to Harlow, a post-war New Town in Essex, in the build up to the town’s second phase of regeneration. Josephine Berry Slater and Anthony Iles interviewed the artist about his work there and his refinement of the 'aesthetics of bureaucracy'

Alberto Duman's highly conceptual public art practice is less about the placement of art works in public than about subjecting the invisible processes that surround the selection and siting of public art to an expanded form of institutional critique. Josephine Berry Slater and Anthony Iles interviewed him on the strange pleasures of serial rejection

JBS: Where does your work take place and who gets to experience it? How does it engage its public or audience?

Q-Art London launched in November 2008 as a forum for critical exchange, networking and peer-review for visual art and visual culture students and graduates from across London's major art Universities.

This public sector organisation committed to the production of 'cultural relations' (eg cultural relations such as voluntary redundancy, early retirement, etc) is leading the way with the global outsourcing of the UK State. This latest move is perhaps inspired by Bordiga's progressive proposal that the soviet union should be run remotely by the communist parties of other nation states, but that's by the by – it's definitely in the vanguard of retrogression.

What's the difference between a commissar's propaganda and a constructivist's poetics of production? Marco Deseriis reviews Gerald Raunig's Art and Revolution and ponders some of the gaps in his aesthetic-political theory

There are books which are imbued with an anachronistic aura from their very release. Books whose untimely publication makes you wonder whether their moment has irrevocably passed or is perhaps still yet to come.