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Louise Short explains the international networks behind the participation of UK artists in this month’s Melbourne Festival.

Simon Morrissey reports from the art scenes of two Baltic capital cities.

Every June Basel becomes the Mecca of the international art world. The vast ‘Art 33 Basel’ and the young art fair ‘Liste’ display the mechanisms of the international art market on a scale of no other event. Exhibiting at these events is a competitive affair, and brings exposure to some of the world’s most important collectors and curators. Beverley Hood reports.

Su Grierson and Diane Maclean report on their activities as co-organisers of Looklook.

Paulette Terry Brien reports from Ex-Teresa Arte Actual in Mexico City.

Julie Read gives an account of her experience on a residency in the Austrian capital.

Susan Miller gives an overview of her time spent in the Spanish capital as a result of a travel award from the Rootstein Hopkins Foundation.

Deirdre King profiles LA-based artists’ initiative Raid Projects and its international activities.

Every five years the provincial German town of Kassel, one hundred miles north of Frankfurt, hosts one of the biggest events in the art world calendar. Frederika Whitehead profiles ‘Documenta 11’ and picks some of her personal highlights.

Adrian Barron and Tim Davies report on their involvement in an international environmental art project in the rainforests of Belize.

Gaia Persico, whose work can be seen this month in ‘EASTinternational’ in Norwich, reveals how her working practice – truly international and portable in nature – has grown from her other occupation as a member of an airline cabin crew.

In January 2002, Sally Cartwright and six other designers were selected by the Birmingham and Solihull International Trade Team – working with Trade Partners UK and West Midland Arts – to exhibit work at the British Embassy in Brussels as part of a trial exporting sheme.

Erik Hagoort profiles the Amsterdam-based independent artists’ information agency – Trans Artists – the latest in our series of developing international partners.

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.