An Announcement from MAP magazine
After a run of nearly 20 years, MAP magazine is now closed to pitches and commissions. It has been both a privilege and pleasure to have worked with so many wonderful contributors, editors and organisations across Scotland and beyond, throughout the life of this publishing project.
Vessels of hope
A response by Isabel Pérez-Ramos to the 2023 Portobello-based project Vessel. This is one of three texts commissioned by organisers Art Walk Projects and published by MAP
Fragments
A response to Vessel by Alycia Pirmohamed. This text, one of a trio published on MAP this month, was commissioned by Portobello-based Art Walk Projects as part of its 2023 Vessel programme
#70 - April 2024
Vessel on MAP
A Stitch in Time Saves Sunshine
A response by Maria Sledmere to the work of Jonathan Baxter, Tonya McMullan and Claudia Zeiske, all participants of the 2023 Art Walk Projects programme Vessel. This artist text is one of three AWP commissions to be published this month in collaboration with MAP
MAP Screen | The Anthropology Effect
Karen Cunningham makes her final selection for MAP Screen with work by Canadian artist Duane Linklater, and Wael Shawky’s ‘The Cave’, both counterpointing her video work, ‘Writing Culture’
We Leave Together
Matt Turner views two films by Hong Kong Documentary Filmmakers
Counterpart
TJ Carlin talks to Leigh Ledare about personal subjectivity and its reception
They lay on the floor like starfish
Ben Nicholson looks into Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival 2021, Thu 29 Apr-Mon 3 May
Vessel
Founder and curator of Art Walk Projects, Rosy Naylor introduces this year’s theme, exploring questions of resilience, care and adaptability in the face of global climate questions. This also marks the continuation of an ongoing editorial partnership with MAP
Mathilde ter Heijne
20 September–8 November, 2009, SMBA, Amsterdam
Doin’ it for the kids, the ESTATE way. 13 snapshots by Neil Cooper
‘With Jimmy Cauty a kind of absentee post-apocalyptic Pied Piper, the volcanic quake of ESTATE proves an irresistible attraction.’ Parked in Muirhouse, Edinburgh throughout June, the event occupies Easterhouse, Glasgow until end July 2021
Beyond Belief
Artist Nathan Coley travelled to Jerusalem to explore and record the city and its life on film, focusing on the phenomenon of Jerusalem Syndrome, a rare travel psychosis specific to the holy city. Afflicting between 5 and 10 people a year, the syndrome is characterised by intoxication of the Holy Land. Those affected can be found at holy sites, chanting, singing and delivering sermons as if living in the time of Christ.
Parallel Play
Jenny Wu reviews Ligia Lewis’s exhibition study now steady at the Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA), New York
The Residency: Part 2
James N. Hutchinson’s narrative continues. ‘I stand for a moment and glance around. I can’t see a car. Where could the third child be?’
Commission: Art After Love’s Philosophy
From 28 June to 9 July 2005, David Michael Clarke cycled the 1124 km from rue d’Angleterre (Nantes) to La Promenade des Anglais (Nice). He used the voyage to collect images, thoughts and texts for this new work.
TENANCY Part 5: on recipes i
a project in two parts from Rebecca May Johnson
The skin is an organ
Sam Playford-Greenwell on ECZEMA!, written and directed by Maria Fusco as part of The National Theatre of Wales’ NHS70 Festival
Report: Art of Survival
In this two-part report, Paddy Johnson examines the day-to day survival of commercial and mixed-economy art organisations in New York, while Jennifer Thatcher assesses the new conditions fully-funded UK spaces now face
I. nobody dies of old age in the ocean
A trio of texts by Harvey Dimond, published across three days, unravels real and imagined oceanic journeys in South Africa, Scotland and Barbados
Making Our Way
Anna McLauchlan navigates Shelter Stone: The Artist and the Mountain, a year-long public art project in the form of a newspaper
back in at the deep end
Emma Balkind reflects on SINK by Janice Kerbel, commissioned by The Common Guild and performed at The Western Baths Club, Glasgow
Focus: 6th Berlin Biennale For Contemporary Art
11 June–8 August, 2010, Various venues
#17 Spring - March 2009
Remarks: Lighthouse Space
Janine Sproule introduces Sierra Metro, opened in October 2008 as a new, independent not-for-profit artist run space.
The Long Dark
17 July–19 September 2010, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
Healing Thoughts
William Kherbek reviews Honey-Suckle Company: Omnibus, ICA, London, 2 October 2019 to 12 January 2020
Observing Women at Work: Franki Raffles
Catherine Spencer reviews ’Observing Women at Work: Franki Raffles’, at the Reid Gallery, The Glasgow School of Art, 4 March-27 April 2017
She Exclaimed
Holly Pester considers exclamation marks in Second Place by Rachel Cusk and Sarah Tripp’s Guitar!
Can Loneliness Perform a Politics?
‘To be alone. Together. To not brush the feeling of loneliness off. To not console. To not ask to be consoled. To not mask our difference… To not try to make the other one of us.’ Catalina Barroso-Luque reflects on her project Penetrate: Translate—an exercise in the political practice of being lonely together. Four texts celebrate the conclusion of the eponymous five session reading group
Unresolved
4 December 2009–31 January, 2010, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
Gerhard Richter: Radical Senses
One of contemporary art’s most revered artists, a seminal and inspirational figure for many of his own and younger generations, Gerhard Richter makes paintings with an instinct that is as visually keen as it is intellectually demanding. Keith Hartley looks back at early days in Düsseldorf, in the light of his abstract period and more recent work