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Acknowledgements Guy Nicholson Sarah England Sanjay Bremakumar Stefan Riebel Andrés R. Londoño Ted Haddon Jack Basrawy
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10 Editorial 12 Therapy Indigo Richards of QWERTY talks to Tine Louise Kortermand
14 Resistant Materials The Blackwater Polytechnic
46 Shifting Centres Simon Lee Dicker
50 Periclitatus Birds Andrés R. Londoño
Ben Coode-Adams and Freddie Robins
60 Contra–Natura
22 The Supranationalist Art Movement
64 Biocity and the Fall
Manick Govinda
Jamie Jackson
26 What Is A Project Space?
68 Am I Local?
Stefan Riebel
Alistair Gentry
38 Transnationalism
74 Artist-Run Spaces Index
James Bridle
John Angel Rodriguez
75 Subscriptions
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