Issues / #17 Spring 2009
The Function of Objects
Steven Cairns considers the idea of containment in the spatially connected installation work of Phillip LaiBut to Go Back
Jenny Brownrigg looks at the meaning of monuments and memory in the work of Croatian artist David MaljkovicBelief Systems
Alessandro Rabottini connects with the complex installations of Pietro Roccasalva, taking a mind-boggling journey through the many narratives of this artist’s workAccelerator
Isla Leaver-Yap talks to Sebastian Buerkner in his studio about his animated films and new commissionPundit & Poet
Rebecca Geldard peels back the layers of Raphael Danke’s collages and photographs to reveal surrealist connections and socio-political concernsBack In To It
Darren Rhymes puts words together with new ‘Write Ups’ made for these pages by Sue Tompkins, an artist known for her performance and works on paper
#17 Spring - March 2009
Roundtable
MAP asked the following artists and organisers to contribute towards a debate on artist-run spaces in Glasgow and beyondResidency: Jordan Baseman
Ilsa Colsell discovers power and honesty in the films of Jordan BasemanEmerging: George Henry Longly
Oliver Basciano discovers a conversational psyche in this young artist’s workHayley Tompkins: Hypothetically Seeing
Joanna Fiduccia visits Glasgow to meet Hayley Tompkins, in whose work she discovers abstraction of an extended, visionary natureRemarks: Artist Rooms
Senior curator at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Philip Long introduces the much-awaited ARTIST ROOMS, lauched 22 January and set to take contemporary art to unexpected places.Remarks: Younger Than Jesus
Lauren Cornell, executive director, Rhizome and adjunct curator, New Museum, is co-curating the New Museum’s first triennial for emerging art.Remarks: Tree
Tania Kovats discusses TREE, the project which won her the Natural History Museum’s Darwin Canopy Commission.Remarks: Pavilion Unicredit
Eugen Radescu is co-director of Bucharest’s latest contemporary art venue, PAVILION UNICREDIT.
#17 Spring - March 2009