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
Remarks: 2 Turin Triennial
Daniel Birnbaum, director of Portikus, Frankfurt, discusses the tasks of curating 2 Turin Triennial and the 53rd Venice Bienniale
SQIFFLIX: Queer community online
Through a series of WhatsApp conversations artists Rachel Sharpe and Andrw Houston (two queers in lockdown) discuss clones, politics, vengeful vampiric werewolves and say thank you to SQIFF for providing a platform for them to continue to connect.
Archival engagements
A review of films showing at Essay Film Festival 2021, by Andrew Northrop
Chapter Four
The fourth instalment of Out of Office Auto-Reply by Susan Finlay
Performance & Energy: 2nd Invitation from Good on Paper
Over six months, Gordon Douglas & Cicely Farrer share a series of invitations looking into the futures of performance art making in Scotland. The second letter invites readers to attend an online workshop Sunday 29 May 2022 from 11am-1pm
Out of Office Auto-Reply Event and Book Launch
Reading marathon of all ten chapters of Out of Office Auto-Reply, publication launch, and performance by James St. Findlay, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow on Saturday 14 July, 2018, 4-6pm.
A Report on the Production of Jeffrey Charles Henry Peacock
For the past four years Richard Birkett has received JCHP cards, their stark design farming assertions and declarations about art and society. Here, he describes this exclusive postal practice
#2 - May 2005
Judgement Day: Plants, Politics and Art
Francis McKee digs into the politics of seeds, GM and ownership, uncovering the evolving open source software of Simon Yuill and Chad McCail which seeks to challenge the state we’re in
AFTERWORD
Louise Briggs, curator of ‘The transparent tortoiseshell and the un-ripe umbrella’, provides an intimate insight into the thought process behind the show which takes place at Glasgow Sculpture Studios 23 January - 5 March 2016 and includes work by Eva Berendes, Stephanie Mann, Rallou Panagiotou, Vanessa Safavi and Samara Scott
Remarks: New Films In The Making
Steven Bode, director of The Film and Video Umbrella discusses the history of the organisation and some upcoming commission.
Not at All
Appendix 2 of Good on Paper’s third invitation to readers to join a workshop on Performance & Comfort & Discomfort
Journey Three: By Loch Eriboll
Duncan McLaren camps out in the Scottish Highlands on a search for land art and ‘globulites’
#12 Winter - November 2007
Review
Music: Sighs Trapped By Liars (new album from Red Krayola)
The Red Krayola with Art & Language www.dragcity.com £10
Bite The Hand That Feeds You
Rose Higham-Stainton considers forms of domestication and care as control in the work of Yalda Afsah at Kunstverein München
Once you cut off your braid, where do you reattach it?
Tereza Hrušková reviews the exhibition ’33 – ’29 – ’36 at UM Gallery, Prague, until 25 February
A possible space for the life of a girl
Nell Osborne considers Lisa Robertson’s debut novel The Baudelaire Fractal
‘A Murderous Fury’
Felix Bazalgette on the politics and protest behind Art and Space at the Guggenheim Bilbao, 5 December 2017 - 18 April 2018
Stephen Sutcliffe: Come to the Edge
Manipulating original broadcast material from his personal archive, Stephen Sutcliffe creates ‘surfaces which become the site of much-contested truth’. Michelle Cotton investigates these subtle ‘video collages’
Untitled
A new text by Dolores Dorantes. Translated by Catalina Barroso-Luque
A Well-Cultivated Garden
Duncan McLaren visits a Glasgow show that seems custom-made for this Enlightenment issue
Remarks: The Briggait reopens
Alison Fullerton of WASPS views The Briggait, a stunning new artist development in the heart of Glasgow, due to open in December 2009.