Random Access 2

Is culture in crisis? Are the political conditions of modern creative work transforming contemporary culture? What anxieties and desires define modern art? Random Access 2 poses these and other questions on art practice and cultural developments and considers the relationship between practice and criticism in contemporary culture. Essays from celebrated artists and thinkers cover topics ranging from criminality among the British urban poor to art teaching, art as memory, interpretation of dance, to the death of Bohemia.