Focus

Fragmentary fiction and cryptic objects

Shepherds and colonialism, appropriation and the Romantic tradition

The Los Angeles-based filmmaker discusses cities, soundtracks and landscapes

Conflict, communion and making human presence resonate in the landscape

Meaning, memory and mockery

The New York-based artist talks about character, the West Coast, process and slime

Interventions in Bucharest's history of state bureaucracy and brutalist architecture

Polystyrene and post-minimalism; industrial processes and the ‘skin’ of amorphous forms

Redmond Entwistle on the making of Walk-Through (2012), a film about Michael Asher’s ‘Post-Studio’ class at CalArts.

Melancholy and entropy haunt the French artist’s films and photographs

Newsrooms, agitprop theatre and the‘living newspaper'

How a monumental ruin is turned into gravel, in the Brazilian artist’s show ‘Dois Reais’ (Two Reals, 2012)

The Finnish artist’s subtly transgressive video performances

The language of cinema and the psychology of sculpture

The London-based artist’s recent performance work

Comic books and identity; innuendo and homoerotic iconography

The authentically real and the profanely cheap; ‘sperm, gold, money, black holes ... ’

Celebrity culture, film studio design and the Hollywood dream

Bodily incursions, surgical violence and an ‘uncommon sense of objecthood’

Early 20th-century literary characterization; imagination, action and agency