Report on the conference at the ICA on 20 Feb. '88 organised by James Lingwood after TSWA 3D '87; question of 'who is the public?'; TSWA 3D was a response to the negative perceptions of p.a.; art cannot redeem public space simply by occupying it; those works in galleries were the least successful; all works disrupted the site and the work became the place; Jan Hoet's '86 'Chambres D'Amis' and Kaspar Konig's '77 and '87 Munster Projects; p.a. had been a movement of and for artists to escape the confines of the institutional and commercial art world, now it is fast being appropriated by curators acting as entrepreneurs.

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