STEPHEN WILLATS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
LECTURES AND PAPERS
1971 ‘Invention of Problems’, symposium organised by Leicester Polytechnic
1973 ‘Interact’, symposium organised as a contribution to the Edinburgh Festival by the Computer Arts Society
1976 ‘Purpose, Context, Meaning: The Externalisation of Art’, five public seminars at Battersea Arts Centre, London
1981 ‘Two Worlds Apart’, ICA, London
1982 ‘The New Reality’, Tate Gallery, London
1986 ‘Intervention and Audience’, Tate Gallery, London
1990 ‘Society Through Art’: symposium, Art Creating Society, MOMA, Oxford
1991 ‘City as Art’, A.I.C.A., Dublin, Ireland
1993 ‘Just Between People’, Tate Gallery, London
‘The Art Work as a Model of Society’, International Symposium - Creativity and Cognition, Loughborough University
BOOK AND BOOKWORKS BY STEPHEN WILLATS
1973
‘The Artist As An Instigator of Changes in Social Cognition and Behaviour”, Gallery House Press, London
1976
‘Art and Social Function’, Latimer New Dimensions, London
1978
‘The Lurky Place’, Lisson Gallery, London
1980
‘Ich Lebe in einem Betonklotz’, Walther Konig Verlag, Cologne, Germany
1982
‘Cha Cha Cha’, Coracle/Lisson Gallery, London
1985
‘Doppelganger’, Actualities, London
1986
‘Intervention and Audience’, Coracle Press, London
1989
‘The House that Habitat Built’, Cornerhouse, Manchester
1990
‘Society through Art’, HCAK, Den Haag, Holland
‘Stairwell’, Coracle Press, London
‘Multi-Storey Mosaic’, Control, Londonv
‘White Towers’, Academy of Art, Helsinki
1991
‘Corridor’, Imschoot, Gent, Belgium
‘Book Mosaic’, Control, London
1992
‘Tower Mosaic’, Control, London
1994
‘Private Journeys’, Hounslow Borough Council, London
‘Balcony’, Imprint
1995
‘Wie ich meine Fluchwege organisiere’, Edition 931, Leipzig
1996
‘Between Buildings and People’, Academy Editions, London
1997
‘The Art Museum in Society. Collected Writings’, Middlesbrough Art Gallery
‘Shopping Parade’, Little Cockroach Press, Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada
1998
‘Random Encounter’, Southampton Art Gallery
2000
‘Art and Social Function’ (Reprint of 1976 original) Elipsis.London.
‘Multiple Clothing’. Walther Konig. Koln.
2001
‘Multichannel Vision’. Control. London.
‘Beyond The Plan’. Academy/John Wiley. London.
2002
‘Through Symbolic Worlds’. Control. London.
2003
‘Random Networks’, Artlab, Imperial College,London.
2006
‘Meeting of Minds’, Control. London.
‘Going Home’, MOT London.
2008
‘The Speculative Diagram’, CASCO, Utrecht, Holland.
PROJECT WORKS
1970
‘The Man From the Twenty First Century’, Nottingham
1971
‘The Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs’
1972-3
‘The West London Social Resource Project’, London
1973
‘The Oxford Insight Development Project’, Oxford
‘The Edinburgh Social Model Construction Project’, Edinburgh
1977
‘From a Coded World’, Perivale, London
1978
‘Vertical Living’, Skeffington Court, Hayes, London
‘Contained Living’, Museum of Modern Art Oxford and the Friars Wharf Estate, Oxford
1979
‘Inside an Ocean’, Ocean Estate, Mile End, East London
1981
‘Two Worlds Apart’, Charville Lane Estate, Hayes, West London
1982
‘Blocks’, Avondale Estate, West London
1985
‘Brentford Towers’, Brentford, West London
1986
‘Four Houses in Den Haag’, Den Haag, Holland
1987
‘From Different Worlds’, Leeds
1988
‘Between Straight Lines’, Newcastle
1989
‘White Towers’, Helsinki, Finland
1990
‘Private Network’, Friars Wharf Estate, Oxford
‘Multi-Storey Mosaic’, Homecourt, Feltham, West London
1991
‘Tower Mosaic’, Warwick & Brindley Estate, Paddington, London
‘Living Mosaic’, Snowhill Estate, Bath
‘People Mosaic’, Kettle’s Yard Gallery, Cambridge
1992
‘Living Tower’, Linacre Court, Hammersmith, London
1993
‘Personal Islands’, Samuda & Barkentine Estates, Isle of Dogs, East London
1994
‘Museum Mosaic’ Tate Gallery, Liverpool
‘Private Journeys’, Heston Farm Estate, Hounslow, West London
‘Taking the Short Cut’, Roydon, Essex
‘Personal Interface’, Galerie Franck & Schulte, Berlin, Germany
1996
‘Chemins Imaginaires’, Champagne, Sotteville, Rouen
1997
‘The Transormer’, Middlesbrough
1998
‘Creativeforce’, Sheffield
‘Changing Everything’, Peckham, South London Gallery
‘Random Encounter’, Southampton
1999
‘Eine Demokratische Reise’, Hamburg
‘Democratic Journey’. Liverpool.
‘Multichannel Workshop’. Graz.
2000
‘Multichannel Workshop Hamburg’. Hamburg.
2003
‘Meeting of Minds’ Sefton Park, Liverpool.
AUDIO TAPES
1976
‘Externalising the Meaning of Art - A Basis for Operation’, Audio Arts Magazine
1977
‘From a Coded World’, Audio Arts Magazine
1982
‘Live to Air’, Audio Arts Magazine, Vol. 5, Nos. 3 & 4
1983
‘Inside the Night’, Audio Arts Special Supplement
1986
‘Brentford Towers’, Audio Arts Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 1
WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Documentation on the West London Social Resource Project commissioned by the Arts Council of Great Britain housed at Osterley Library.
Southampton City Art Gallery & Museum
Art Museum Zurich, Switzerland
Haags Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, Holland
The Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
Rochdale Art Gallery, Rochdale, Greater Manchester
The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
The Tate Gallery, London
De Beyerd Centrum voor Actuelle Kunst, Breda, Holland
Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Holland
Contemporary Art Society, London
The Arts Council of Great Britain
Gimpel Fils Galery, London
Victoria & Albert Museum, Drawing Dept., London
Victoria & Albert Museum, Clothing and Dress Dept., London
The British Museum, Prints & Drawings Dept., London
National Gallery, Gdansk, Poland
Wadsworth Athenaeum, Conneticut, USA
Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds
Stadtische Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art, Utrecht, Holland
The Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
Helsingen Kaupungin Taidemuseo, Helsinki, Finland
Stichting Volkshuisversting in de Kunst, Ben Haag, Holland
Victoria & Albert Museum (Artist’s Book Collection, archive of writings and publications)
Hounslow Borough Counicl, London
Museum de Beaux Arts, Le Havre, France
Frac Course Centre of Centemporary Art, Corsica, France
Cleveland Gallery, Cleveland
Frac Limousin, France
Rhone Alpes Frac, France
Caise de depots et Cousiguations, Paris
Porin Taidemuseo, Pori, Finland
Frac Haute-Normandie, France
Middlesborough Art Gallery
South London Art Gallery
Frac Poitou Charentes, France
Sud West Landesbank, Stuttgart, Germany
Frac Languedoc-Roussillon, France
Art Gallery of New South Wales. Sydney.Australia.
Amsterdams Historisch Museum.
Henry Moore Foundation. Leeds.
Whitworth Art Gallery. University of Manchester.
Fonds Regional Nord-Pas-de-Calais. France.
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain Paris. France.
Folkwang Museum, Essen.Germany.
Migros Museum, Zurich.
National Portrait Gallery, London.
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Germany.
Museum of London, London.
Ludwig Museum, Köln, Germany.
National Galerie Berlin.
STATEMENTS AND WRITINGS BY STEPHEN WILLATS
1964
Statement in catalogue of exhibition. Chester Beatty Research Centre, London
1965
Statement in Control Magazine No. 1 (untitled)
1966
in Control Magazine No. 2 (untitled)
Statement in the catalogue, Kunst Licht Kunst, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Holland
1967
Studio International, February Issue, Vol 173, No. 886
Text in Control Magazine No. 4 (untitled)
Statement in Studio International, Vol 176, No. 904
Statement in the catalogue, ‘Visual Automatics and Visual Transmitters,’ Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
1970
‘The Artist as a Structuralist of Behaviour’, Control Magazine, No. 5
1971
‘Behavioural Nets and Life Structures’, The Paper, No. 1, Fine Art Dept, Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham
‘The Artist and the Structuring of Social Behaviour’, read at the Symposium, ‘The Invention of Problems 2’, published in Creativity in a Machine Environment’, Leicester Polytechnic, ed. Stroud Cornock
‘If I had a Mind’, Du Mont Aktuell Cologne (ed. Klaus Groh)
1972
‘Cognition Control’, Control Magazine No. 6
‘Visual Meta Language Simulation and Cognition Control”, Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham and then the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
‘The West London Social Resource Project’, a Survey of the Avant-Garde in Britain, Vol. 1, Gallery House Press, London
1973
‘The West London Social Resource Project’, Studio International, Vol. 185, No. 951
‘Art and Social Function: Prescriptions’, Art and Artists, Vol. 8, No. 87
‘The Project Operator’s Manual for the Social Model Construction Project’, Edinburgh
‘Art Practice and Social Function’, published paper from Interact Symposium, Edinburgh
‘Prescriptions for Task-Orientated Methodologies in Constructing Operational Models of Art Practice’, Control Magazine, No. 7
‘A State of Agreement’, Statement published in association with the presentation of Meta Filter at The Gallery, London
1974
‘The Edinburgh Project’, Art and Artists, Vol. 8, No. 94
‘The West London Social Resource Project’, Leonardo, Vol. 7
‘The Externalisation of Models in Art Practice’, Control No. 8
‘Meta Filter’, Art and Artists, Vol. 9, No. 104
‘Meta Filter’, Flash Art No. 48
1975
‘A Survey of Distance Models of Art’, Control Magazine, No. 9
‘Meta Filter’, Studio International, Vol. 190, No. 977
‘The Book as Interactive Tool: The Modelling Book’, Artists’ Bookworks, catalogue published by The British Council, London
‘A State of Agreement’, Control Magazine No. 9
1976
‘Artwork as Social Model’, Studio International, Vol. 191, No. 980
‘Social Codes and Behaviour Parameters: as Area of Concern for Art’, catalogue published by The Midland Group, Nottingham
Statement in the catalogue, ‘Twentieth Century Artists Photographs’, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
‘Control Magazine’, Studio International, Vol. 192, No. 983
1977
‘The Project Operator’s Manual’, from A Coded World, Perivale, self-published, London
‘Between a Symbolic World and a Contextual Reality: The Artwork as Vehicle for Forwarding Counter Consciousness’, Control Magazine No. 10
‘Les Problems de la Nouvelle Realite’, statement to accompany work of same title presented in 10ieme Biennale de Paris, self-published, London
‘The Group as Social Analogue in Art Practice’, text in the catalogue accompanying exhibition, Attitudes Within Four Relationships, Southampton Art Gallery
1978
‘Questions About Ourselves’, text accompanying exhibition with same title at Lisson Gallery, London
‘From A Coded World’, Studio International, Vol. 194, No. 988
1979
‘Unter Druck Leben’, Kunstforum International, Band 35, May
‘Die Darstellung de sozialen Realitat’, Kunstmagazine 19, Jahr No.2
‘Les Enfants de Garges-les-Gonesse’, Art Press No. 27
‘Working with the work of Art’, Art Monthly, No. 25
‘Les Problemes de la Nouvelle Realite’, Tesstuale, published by Commune di Milano, Italy
‘Vivere con le realta pratiche’, Arte e Pratica Politica, published by Tra, Italy
‘The Counter Consciousness in Vertical Living’, Control Magazine No.11
1980
‘Physische Beengtheit und Kultureller Druck’, Kunst Nachrichten, Heft 2, 16 Jahrgang
‘Identifizierung von Zwangselementen’ (text by Stephen Willats) in 42, June
‘Contained Reality’, Art Monthly, No. 33
1981
‘Two Worlds Apart’, Aspects, No. 16 (first part)
‘Two Worlds’, Art Monthly No. 49, September
‘Two Worlds’, report on some experiences, Art Monthly No. 51, November
‘Working with Life and Institutions’, Control Magazine No. 12
‘The Lurky Place’, Artist and Camera. Arts Council of Great Britain catalogue
‘Two Worlds Apart’, Aspects, No. 17 (second part)
1982
‘Inside the Night’, Aspects, No. 21
‘Leben in vorgegebenen Grenzen - 4 Inseln in Berlin’, Kunst Nachrichten, 18 Jahrgang, Heft 1
‘Pat Purdy and the Glue Sniffers Camp’, Artwork for Numero Quattro a cura di Sol le Witt, Milan
‘Inside the Night’, Art Monthly No. 62
1983
‘Living Like a Goya’, text in catalogue, The Sculpture Show, published by the Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, London
1984
‘Another City’, Juliet Art Magazine No. 14
‘Intervention and Audience’, Juliet, No. 17
‘Intervention and Audience, a Synopsis’, Coracle Press, London
1985
‘Meeting with Doppelgangers, Stephen Willats talks about his work with people on the margins of society’, Performance, No. 36, August - September
‘Intervention und Publikum’, Kunst Nachrichten, Heft 5, October
‘Means of Escape’, text for exhibition catalogue, Alles und Noch viel Mehr’, Das Poetische ABC, Bentelik, Verlag, Berlin
‘Im Innen der Nacht’, Kunst Nachrichten, 21 Jahrgang, Heft 3 May
‘Doppelganger’, interview conducted by Antonia Payne, Studio International, Vol. 198, No. 1011
1986
‘City of Concrete’, text for catalogue published by Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
1987
‘Between Objects and People’, text for catalogue published by Leeds City Art Gallery
‘Contemporary Living’, text for catalogue published by Vereninging voor het Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
‘A Work Between Two Institutions’, Performance No. 47
‘Meta Filter’ - Depart From Zero, The Gallery Trust publication, London
‘Between Objects and People’, Art Monthly No. 112, January
‘Variable Sheets’, 2D/3D Art and Craft Made in the Twentieth Century Catalogue, published by the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
‘Art and Intervention’, (various texts), AND No. 13/14
‘Between Buildings and People’, Artefactum 18, April/May
1988
‘From Different Worlds’, AND No. 15/16
‘Secret Language’, Arte Factum 25, Belgium
‘Signs and Messages from Corporate America’, Art Monthly No. 122
‘Code Breakers’, CODE, No. 9, Amsterdam
1989
Art and Cybernetics’, AND No. 18/19
‘Organic Exercise’, Catalogue essay for ‘The Possibilities of Space’, Fifty Years of British Sculptor’s Drawings, Huddersfield Art Gallery
‘Transormers’, Beeld No. 4, Amsterdam
1990
‘The Determinism of the Camera’, Perspektief No. 38, Rotterdam
‘White Towers’, Control Magazine No. 14
1991
‘From Object to Concept in Society’, Excavating the present, catalogue essay, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
1992
‘Living Mosaic’, catalogue essay for Real Stories, Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark
‘Starting From Zero’, an interview by Grant Kester, Afterimage, Vol.19, No. 10, May, Rochester, New York
1993
‘Just Between People’, Meta No. 4, Stuttgart
1994
‘From Objects to People: Interaction in the Art Museum’, Kunst & Museum Journal, Vol. 5, No. 4, Amsterdam
‘Fateful Combinations’, text for catalogue published by The British School at Rome
‘Fateful Combinations’, Opening No. 22, Rome
‘Going into the Infrastructure’, Meta No. 3, Stuttgart
1995
Untitled text for catalogue ‘Private/Public’, ARS 95, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
‘Pat Purdy and the Glue Sniffers Camp’, catalogue published by Joseloff Gallery, Hartford, ‘The Edge of Town’
‘City of Concrete’, catalogue published by the FRAC Haute-Normandie, ‘Appartement Temoin’
1996
Stephen Willats: an interview with Nicola Kearton in Public Art Issue, Art & Design, London
‘Private Journeys’, Control Magazine No. 15
‘Time Will Tell’, Texte zur Kunst, No. 23, August
1996
‘Fateful Combinations - Random Life’ and ‘Occasional Events Between Four People’, Radikale Bilder, catalogue published by 2nd Austrian Triennale for Photography, Neue Galerie, Graz
‘Imagined Pathways’, catalogue for Les Contes de Fees se Terminent Bien, FRAC Haute Normandie, Rouen
1997
‘The Art Museum in Society. Collected Writings’, Stephen Willats, Middlesbrough Art Gallery
1998
‘Random Encounter’, Stephen Willats, Southampton City Art Gallery
‘The Artwork as Interactive Simulation’, Stephen Willats, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
‘Changing Everything’, Stephen Willats, South London Art Gallery
‘Unterschiedliche Begegnungen’, Stephen Willats, catalogue, ‘Do All Oceans Have Walls?’, G.A.K., Bremen.
2000
‘King Of Code’. Interview. Mute 16. June/July.
‘Stephen Willats’. Interview by Claudia Seidel. Netter Art Collection
Vol 10/ 10.Erganzungsband. Georg Thieme Verlag. Stuttgart.
2001
Multichannel Workshop Practice In The Art Museum’. Control Magazine No.16.
‘Macro To Micro. A Report’. Camera Austria International. 73.
‘Contemporary Relationships No.3.’ Catalogue text for ‘The Map Is Not The Territory’ published by England & Co.
2002
‘The Edinburgh Social Model Construction Project’. Justified Sinners. Pocketbooks 14. Edinburgh.
‘Control’. Interview by Uscha Pohl. ‘Inside Magazines. Independent
Pop Culture Magazines’. Patrik Andersson and Judith Steedman. Thames & Hudson, London.
2004
‘Stephen Willats zu seinen Werken’, Stephen Willats, ‘70/90, Engagierte Kunst’, Neusemuseum Nürnberg, Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg.
‘Meeting Of Minds’, Stephen Willats, Places, Vol 16, No.3. Prat Institute, University of California, Berkely, California.
2005
Stephen Willats: An Interview on Art, Cybrnetics and Social Intervention’, George Mallen, Page 60, Bulletin of the Computer Arts Society, Spring 2005.
‘Means Of Escape’ (1983), Juni, Kunst Zeit Schrift No.8. Badischer Kunstverein, Karsruhe.
2006
‘Going Home’, publication Going Home published by MOT, London.
2008
‘The Speculative Diagram’, published in The Speculative Diagram, Stephen Willats, CASCO, Utrecht, Holland.
SELECTED EXHIBITION CATALOGUES AND REVIEWS IN PUBLICATIONS
1972
Conway Lloyd Morgan ‘Cognition and Control Project’, New Scientist, 26 October
1973
Rosetta Brooks ‘Behavioural Art’, Studio International, Vol. 185, No. 951
Martin Kunz ‘Rationale Englishe Kunst-tendenzen’, (11 Teil), Kunst Nachrichtung, March
1975
John Walker ‘Meta Filter’, interview with Stephen Willats, Studio International, Vol. 190, No. 977, Sept.
Richard Cork ‘Nice to Meta You’, Evening Standard, 16 October
1976
Jane Kelly (with Willats), Midland Group Gallery Exhibition Nottingham’, Studio International, Vol. 191, No. 981, May - June
1977
Richard Cork ‘Involved - Yet Semi-Detached’, Evening Standard, 21 April
Jane Kelly (with Willats) ‘Contemporary Artists’, ed. Colin Naylor and Genesis P. Orridge, St James Press
Sandy Nairne ‘Report from a Coded World’, Art Monthly No. 10
1978
Marina Vaizey ‘Stephen Willats’, Arts Review, Vol. 31, No. 2, Feb.
Sandy Nairne ‘Stephen Willats’, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
‘Concerning Our Present Way of Living’, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1980
Frank Gribling ‘Over onze aktuele leefwizjzwe’, Museum Journal, 80/5, Holland
‘Over onze actuele leefwije’, Stedlijk Van Abemuseum, Eindhoven, Holland
‘4 Inseln in Berlin’, Nationalgalerie Berlin, West Berlin
Jorg Johnen ‘Stephen Willats’, review Kunstforum International, Band 41, May
Jurgen Schweinebraden ‘The Lurky Place’, Art Monthly, No. 41
1982
Marina Vaizey ‘The Artist as Photographer’, Sidgwick and Jackson, London
‘The New Reality’, Orchard Gallery, Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Tilman Osterwold ‘Vergangenheit Gegenwart Zukunft’, Wurtembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, (exh. cat.)
Viet Loers ‘Noi altri wir anderen’, Statdische Galerie, Regensberg, West Germany (exh. cat.)
1982
Deirdre O’Connell ‘Steve Willats’, CIRCA, No. 7, Northern Ireland
Michael Newman ‘Man’s Place - Four Works’, Art and Artists, No. 193
1983
Eli Pascal ‘A l’Interieure de la Nuit’ Artistes, No. 16, Paris
John Roberts, ‘Willats in Derry’, Performance, Nos. 20-21, Dec - Jan, London
Christiane Bergob: ‘Sprechen sie Cha Cha’, Kunstforum International, Band 61, May
Michael Compton: ‘New Art’, (catalogue essay) in New Art at the Tate Gallery, Tate Gallery Publications, London
Lewis Biggs: ‘Under Cover’, Arnolfini Review, May
1984
Smith: ‘Soft Computing: Art and Design’, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, London
‘Means of Escape’, Rochdale Art Galery, Rochdale, Greater Manchester (exhibition catalogue)
Nadine Descendre: ‘Anatomie d’une Creation’, Autrement, No. 6, Paris, (London issue)
Sarah Kent: ‘Art and Artifice: Changing Attitudes’, Artscribe, No 45
1985
‘The British Show’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (exh. cat.) Text by Richard Francis
1986
Rob le Frenais: ‘Brentford Towers’, Performance No. 38
‘Stephen Willats. Three Essays’, ICA, London and The Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield (exh. cat.)
‘City of Concrete”, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (exh. cat.)
Margaret Garlake: ‘Artists and Our Environment’, The Artist, Vol. 101, No. 7, Issue 665, July
Gray Watson: ‘Stephen Willats at the ICA’, Artscribe, No. 57, April-May
Michael Archer: ‘Recent Project Works’, ICA, London (exh. cat.)
Manfred Schmalriede: ‘In Berlin und Eindhoven geschaffene Werde’ - catalogue text in ‘Stephen Willats. Three Essays’, ICA, London
1987
‘Between Objects and People’, Leeds City Art Gallery (exh.cat.)
‘Groeten van Stephen Willats uit het moderne leven’, Phillip Peters, De Tijd, 2nd Jan., Amsterdam
1988
Andrew Wilson: Review, Laing Art Gallery exhibition, Artscribe, Sept/Oct
‘Transformers’, The Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, (exh.cat.)
‘Code Breakers’, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam (exh.cat.)
1989
‘Secret Language’, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester (exh.cat.)
1990
‘Conceptual Living’, Victoria Miro Gallery, London (exh.cat.), text by Stephen Bann’Publishing Interventions’, National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum (exh.cat.), texts by Stephen Willats and Simon Ford
‘High Rise to Heaven: Stephen Willats, Victoria Miro Gallery’, Artscribe, Nov/Dec, text by Andrew Wilson
‘City of Concrete’, Galerie Montevideo, Antwerp (exh.cat.)
1992
‘The Place of Architecture in the work of Keith Coventry, Langlands & Bell and Stephen Willats’, Andrew Wilson, text in Forum International, No. 16, Antwerp
‘Stephen Willats’, Galerie Montevideo exhibition review by Jos Van Den Bergh, Arte Factum, 42’92, Antwerp
‘Stephen Willats, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris’ review by Didier Levy, Art Press, No. 174, November
‘Starting from Zero’, Grant H Kester, Afterimage, Vol. 19, No. 10, Rochester, NY
‘Living Tower’ review of installation at Linacre Court, Hammersmith, London by Stephanie Craven, Arte Factum, 46’92, Antwerp
1993
‘Building and People’, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin (exh.cat.) texts by Martina Jura, Horst Kurnitzky, Helmet Geisert, Karin Herrmann and Stephen Willats
‘Cognition Control’, Oliver Cieslik, Texte Zurkunst, Cologne, Nov.
‘Buildings and People’, Art Monthly, Dec. 93/94, text by Toni del Renzio
‘Stephen Willats: Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris’, review by Benjamin Weil, Flash Art, No. 168, Jan/Feb
1994
‘Ideal Society’ text by Phillip Peters in the published report made by the HCAK, Den Haag on the Ideal Place Project
‘Stephen Willats: Galerie Franck & Schulte, Berlin, review by Peter Herbstreuth, Falsh Art, No. 174, Jan/Feb
‘Stephen Willats: Random Life’, Victoria Miro Gallery review by Clifford Myerson, Portfolio No. 20
‘Stephen Willats’, text by Renate Puvogel, Artis No. 3, April/May
‘The Complexity of People’, interview by Gareth Jones, Flash Art, No. 179, Nov/Dec
1995
‘Living Together’, Tramway, Glasgow (exh. cat.) text by Andrew Wilson
‘Stephen Willats’ Galerie Franck & Schulte, Berlin, review by Harald Fricke in Neue bildende Kunst, No. 3
‘Konzeptuelles Leben’ Galerie Franck & Schulte, Berlin, review by Jochen Becker, Zitty, No. 8, Berlin
Nos. 5 & 6
‘Kaupunkkirakenne ja ihmissuheet, Stephen Willats, ja modernin maailman Kuva’, Kukka Haikkola, Taide 6/95, Helsinki
‘Paste-Up, Past and Present’, Kent Gallery, New York
1996
‘Stephen Willats’. Text by Frank Hoenjet, catalogue for ‘Everybody’s Talking’, Gemeentemuseum, Helmond, Holland
‘Ich lebe in einem Betonklotz, Stephen Willats’ Zurich, Tip, 13th Oct.
1997
‘Stephen Willats, Middlesbrough Art Gallery’, Matthew Higgs, Art Monthly, October No. 210
‘Realitybytes’, John O’Riley, The Independent, Saturday 19th July
‘Les Arts Steve Willats’, Alexandre de Cadeney, Sleaze Nation, Nov/Dec, Vol. 2, No.1
‘Stephen Willats, Art, Ethnography and Social Change’, Variant, Vol. 2, No. 4, October
‘Photographie d’une Collection, 2’, Caisse des Depots et Consignations’, Hazen Paris
‘The Grand Design The Art of the Victoria & Albert Museum’, Harry N. Abrams Inc. Publishers, New York
1999
‘Deer ganz alltagliche Funktionalismus’, Interview by Vitus Weh, Kunstforum Bd. 143, Jan - Feb.
2000
‘Democracy’ Royal College of Art,London.
‘Live In Your Head’. Whitechapel Art Gallery. London.
‘Protest And Survive’. Whitechapel Art Gallery. London.
‘Work becoming of the man about town’. Morgan Falconer.
Highbury & Islington Express.
2001
‘Channel Hopping’. Review by Adrian Glew of ‘Art and Social Function’, in Art Monthly No 246,May.
‘Life Codes’, Diagramme Und Schwarzweisskopien’. Andreas
Fogarasi. Derive. Heft 4. June. Austria.
‘Traces And Signs’. Christel Vesters. Tubelight 16. July/August.
Holland/
‘Double Vision’. Catalogue essay by Andrea Schlieker. Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst, Leipzig.
‘Selbt Portrat’. Schloss Agathenburg. Agathenburg. Germany.
‘Conception. Conceptual Documents 1968- 1972’. Norwich Art Gallery. Norwich. England.
2002
‘Stephen Willats’. Renate Puvogel. ‘The Gap Show. Junge
Zeitkritische Kunst aus Grossbritannien’. Catalogue published by Museum am Ostwall Dortmund.
‘Beyond The Plan’. Art & Artchitecture, No 56. May.
‘Model Dwellings’ Catalogue essay by Emman Mahony, for ‘Air Guitar’, published by Milton Keynes Gallery. Milton Keynes.
2004
‘Welt als Nachbarschaft’, and ‘Wir sind keine Einsiedler, Interview with Stephen Willats’, by Harald Fricke, in U-Spot, Heft 2/2004.
‘Engagierte Kunst. 70/90’, ‘Stephen Willats’, text by Friederike Wappler, in the catalogue published by ‘Neues museum’, Nürnberg.
‘Art & The 60’s. This Was Tomorrow’. Text by Andrew Wilson.
Catalogue published by the Tate Gallery, London.
‘Conversation Pieces. Community + Communication In Modern Art.
Grant H Kester. University of California Press, Berkely, U.S.A.
‘Control Magazine’. Emily Pethick, ‘Tank’, Vol 4, Issue 1.
‘70/90 Engagierte Kunst’, Text by Freiderike Wrappler, Neuesmuseum Nürnberg,Verlaf für moderne Kunst Nürnberg.
‘Tenant To Tenant. The Art of Talking with Strangers’, Sharon Irish, Places, Vol 16, No.3. University of California, Berkeley, California.
2005
‘Stephen Willats: An Interview on Art, Cybrnetics and Social Intervention’, George Mallen, Page 60, Bulletin of the Computer Arts Society, Spring 2005.
‘Magic Moments’, ‘collaboration between artists and young people’ Edited by Anna Harding, Black Dog Publishing.
2006
‘Stephen Willats’, Galerie Christian Nagel, Küoln, review by Catrin Lorch, Frieze, Issue 98, April.
‘Kritische Gesellschaften. Ein Ausstellungsprojekt in vier Kapiteln’, Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Badischer Kunstverein.
‘Wie Die Welt Ist Und Wie Sie Sein Könnte. Stephen Willats’. Catalogue published by Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen.
‘Conceptual Paradise’. Dilm by Stefan Römer, DVD.
‘Stephen Willats’. review by Niels Henriksen. Camera Austria. No.96/2006.
‘Boy, das ist Kunst!’, Das Kommunikationsarchiv des Stephen Willats im Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Siegen,, von ulf Edmann Ziegler, Frankfurter Rundschau, 24/10 Auflage 196.542.
‘Such nach multiplen Wahrheiten’, review of Siegen exhibition by Katja Behrens, TAZ NRW, 04.10. Auflage 82.000
‘Wie die Welt ist und wie sie sein könnte. Stephen Willats’. review by Annelie Pohlen. Kunstforum No 183. December.
Stephen Willats, Stephen Willats. review by Peter Suchin. Art Monthly No. 300. October.
‘Magic Moments. Collaboration between artists and young people’.
Anna Harding. Black Dog Publishing.
2007
‘Centre of the Creative Univers. Liverpool and the Avantgarde’.
Catalogue published by Liverpool University Press in association with Tate Liverpool.
Stephen Willats. Victoria Miro Gallery, review by Melanie Gillagan.
Artforum International. XLV No.5.
‘Networking’, Stephen Willats, by Tom Morton, Frieze, Issue 106, April.
‘Talking Art. Interviews with artists since 1976’, edited by Patricia
Bickers and Andrew Wilson, Art Monthly and Ridinghouse, London.
‘Person To Person People To People’, Stephen Willats, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, U.K.
‘Beyond The Wall. Berlin-Freihafen der Künste’, Stiftung Brandenburger Tor, Berlin. Published by Nicolai.
‘Panic Attack! Art In The Punk Years’, Published by Merrell, London New York.
‘Collection Art Contemporain’, Centre Pompidou, Paris.
‘Punk No One Is Innocent’, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien, Austria.
‘Sculpture Projects Muenster 07’, text by Christiane Mennicke, Published by Verlag de Buchhandlung Walther Kuonig, Köln.
‘Künstler & Fotografien. 1959- 2007’, Museum Ledwig Köln, published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln.
2008
‘A computer in the art room. The origins of bristish computer arts 1950-80’, Catherine Mason, Published by JJG Publishing, Norfolk, U.K.
‘Stephen Willats - Texte zur Architektur’, Vrlan der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln.
‘Volksgarten Die Politik der Zugehörigkeit’, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria.
‘Punk No One Is Innocent’, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien, Austria.
‘Manifesta 7’. Catalogue, Manifesta, Amsterdam.
‘The Everyday’, Edited by Stephen Johnstone, Documents Of Contemporary Art, Whitechapel London, and MIT Press, U.S.A.
‘Stephen Willats. Galerie Thomas Schulte’, Saskia Draxler, Artforum 21.02.
‘Democratic Grids and Conceptual Towers’, review of Thomas Schulte exhibition in Kunstforum International by Astrid Musla.
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