The years 1980 and 1981 witnessed a paradigm shift so profound as to restructure the cultural, political and economic landscape, leaving us the pieces to pick up and fill in today. 80*81 by Georg Diez and Chistopher Roth uncovers and calculates this shift through theatre performances and a travelling laboratory. This issue features Chinese-American artist Mei-Lun Xue, the writer Don DeLillo and the French comic revolutionaries Pierre Christin and Enki Bilal. Part three in the 80*81 series.