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Ola Gustafsson and Lesley Young of protoacademy report on their involvement in the fourth Gwangju Biennale in Korea.

Judith Staines visits Mumbai and reports on its reputation for contemporary art.

Work & Leisure International partners – Paulette Terry Brien and Laurence Lane – describe how their organisation has evolved over ten years of working together and with artists.

The INTERNATIONAL section was introduced to [a-n] MAGAZINE in April last year in recognition that an increasing number of artists have the desire to operate in a global arena. As part of a plan to continually improve the scope and coverage of the international opportunities and other information in [a-n] MAGAZINE, [a-n] THE ARTISTS INFORMATION COMPANY is forging working relationships with a diverse range of arts organisations around the world. This month sees [a-n] MAGAZINE welcome the first of these international partners with profiles of united net-works.org in Sweden and the Sculptors’ Society of Ireland.

Paul Bonaventura talks to Tim Eastop, Senior Visual Arts Officer at the Arts Council of England, about a new initiative to create international practice-based opportunities for individual artists.

Le Fresnoy National Studio of Contemporary Arts in France is promoted as a high-profile international centre of artistic training, research and production. Although ultimately a worthwhile experience for artist and filmmaker Tina Gharavi, the reality of her residency there was not without problems.

Hull-based artist Lorna Moore profiles the artscene in the Canadian city of Halifax.

Nina Packer was still a student when she first heard about ‘Observatori’. Here, she tells how a visit from an ex-student of the London Guildhall University, led to her participation in this Spanish cross-artform festival.

Sofie Sweger reports on ‘Space/Traffic’ an international symposium of artist-run spaces and organisations that took place in Hong Kong last December.

This month sees the second leg of an international project in Edinburgh. ‘Art in the Home’ will involve artists installing their work in private residences across the city. Here Paul Carter, shares his experience of the first leg of the project in Yamaguchi, Japan.

Joanne Lee discusses the evolution of communication and collaboration strategies with Flasch – a group of artists working across northern European countries.

In the summer of 2001 Philip Kennedy travelled to Tuscany as a recipient of a Juliet Gomperts Memorial Trust award.

The Kamiyama artist in residence programme (KAIR) was established in 1998 by local businessmen, and is supported by schools and cultural institutions, to bring creative energy to a rural community with few cultural resources. Robin Dance gives an account of his participation in the programme in 2000.

Graham Ramsay reports on the artscene in Canada’s largest city.

Sophie Scott reports on her experience of the different attitudes and approaches to education initiatives in the arts in the USA.

Two years ago artist Betsy Tyler Bell invited a group of English artists to live and work in her house in southern France. Participating artist Helen Ganly, describes how last summer’s project culminated in a successful month-long exhibition.

In October I visited the Sixth Art Forum Berlin as a one of ten artists exhibiting with Edinburgh’s Collective Gallery. All the artists (Beagles and Ramsay, Paul Carter, Kate Gray, Billy McCall, Lynn Lowenstein, Kirsty Whiten, Michele Naismith and James […]

Once again the Istanbul Biennial opened at a time of extraordinary difficulty. In 1999 the event only just survived the city’s devastating earthquake, whilst the recent backdrop was an explosive economic crisis and the imminent war in the (uncomfortably) Near East. But, as Kevin Dent reports, from this unpromising background the biennial emerged as a triumph offering the city something to celebrate and enjoy.

John Plowman profiles KÜnstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, one of about a dozen such institutions in Germany offering residencies to international artists.

Roxy Walsh, recipient of the Abbey Award in Painting, gives an overview of her time at the British School at Rome (BSR).

A new artist-initiated event took place across Hull during September. Here, David Briers explores how the event fits into the city’s existing arts infrastructure and discusses some of the national and European links it generated.