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Afterall Online articles, interviews and reviews. Last updated 9th May 2008
�Chacun � son g�ut� at Guggenheim Bilbao I. ��Hab�is cedido a vuestro deseo?� (�Have you given in to your desire?�). These words, printed on a banner in the atrium of the Guggenheim Bilbao, welcome the visitors to the museum. The work by Juan P�rez Agirregoikoa, part of an exhibition titled �Chacun � son g�ut�, interpellates everyone around it � including the museum itself¹. Or at least that is apparent if the text is read in the context in which it is shown...	Artists at Work: Luis Jacob Rosemary Heather: How has your art practice developed in the local context in Toronto? We have known each other for 10 years, and I know you have always been very involved in different local scenes. Can you talk about your involvement with the Anarchist Free School, and how that informs your current practice? Luis Jacob: My education has played a big role. I studied semiotics and philosophy...	Le PingPong d�Amour: Collaborative Experiments in Materialising Idealism Collaboration is often seen as a critical platform for art practice. Its communal mode of production supposedly guards against any potential problems of self-interest or prejudice. However, it also exemplifies a seemingly paradoxical tendency in contemporary art: the system of production it adopts is based on a political ideal...	Lloyd Hamrol Remembers CalArts In 1973, artist Lloyd Hamrol and a group of students constructed Woven Cone, a teepee shaped rope sculpture, on a rise overlooking the rear parking area of the CalArts campus in Valencia, CA. The piece stood there as an iconic presence until this past summer, when it was dismantled following the discovery of a severe termite infestation. Hamrol came to the campus to remember his experiences...