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Feature articles in the trial issue include: Dave Beech on ‘Shock v Awe’ and the avant garde, Marcus Verhagen on ‘Nomadism’, and Adam E Mendelsohn on the retrieval of history through re-enactment ‘Be Here Now’.

As well as feature articles, each issue contains exhibition and book reviews. The trial issue has reviews of Gillian Wearing, Edward Krasiński, Clegg & Guttman, Keith Coventry, and Henry Lydiate contributes one of his regular columns on Art and Law. He also contributed to the first issue, in 1976.