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'

Through her zine Savage Messiah, drawings and public drifts, artist Laura Oldfield Ford has recoded the urban fabric of London, bringing its repressed revenants to the fore.  Josephine Berry Slater and Anthony Iles interviewed her about the varied registers of her practice and the processes of regeneration it critically chronicles.

There are many polemics against regeneration in your work. To what extent do you see regeneration as the primary object of critique in your practice?

Artist Nils Norman has engaged extensively with the language of urban planning, architecture and urban regeneration. Josephine Berry Slater and Anthony Iles interviewed him about the positioning of his work between the mutually exclusive worlds of art and urban development

Freee's art is often situated outside the confines of the gallery, but doesn't define itself as public art – indeed it is largely preoccupied with a critique of the interests served by art in public space.

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?

Critiques of the instrumentalised role of culture within the current stage of urban development, so-called ‘culture led urban regeneration', are becoming increasingly common. A rising crescendo of criticism may finally be denting the blithe confidence of the ‘Creative City' formula and its liberal application to all manner of post-industrial urban ills.

On visiting ‘Art in Public Places: the Archive of the Public Art Development Trust', Malcolm Miles evaluates the role of art commissioning agencies in changing the face of public art in the UK