Issues / #2 Summer 2005
#2 - May 2005
Bulletin
A round-up of journeys, events and spaces. Contact Jess Dolan with details of new projects, residencies or opportunities.
Bear Compound
Artist Mark Dion describes his brush with the little known bears of Dundee and his scheme to build new vistas for them and for those on the human side of their enclosure. Bear Broch opened to the public in the winter of 2005
Minimal Decay
Minimalist artist Helio Oiticica died in 1980 and has been celebrated by major galleries across the world since. Richard Williams searches out his work in the Brazilian jungle, but discovers it struggling to survive
#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
Songs in the Key of Life
Music is the escape, the anger, the boredom, the sadness, the sex, the affirmation, the madness and sense that takes us out of the daily grind. Neil Cooper celebrates the whole beautiful, blurred shebang as it morphs into art in the exhibition ‘Pass the Time of Day’
Venice: The Grand Tour
Neil Mulholland scans the guest list of the venerable Venice Biennale, and ponders the question of national identity with Scotland and China in mind
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Poets Edwin Morgan and Alan Spence celebrate the 80th birthday of Ian Hamilton Finlay, artist, poet and gardener. Introduction by Ken Cockburn
Journey Two: Tours
Continuing his series of artistic wanderings especially for MAP, Duncan McLaren takes off to France to climb a mountain of the imagination—despite the language barrier
Portfolio: Nigel Peake
Deborah Jackson gets close to the drawings of Nigel Peake, a prolific sketcher and young emerging artist who recently showed work at Red Door Gallery in Edinburgh
Studio: Lotte Glob
In search of the working habits of Scottish artists, writer Ruth Hedges and photographer Luke Watson head north to meet sculptor Lotte Glob
Memories of Eduardo Paolozzi
Edinburgh-based sculptor Duncan Robertson remembers Eduardo Paolozzi, a giant of Scottish art, who died in April, 2005
#2 - May 2005
Letter to MAP: Johnny Gailey
Letter from Johnny Gailey, photographer and arts worker, in response to ‘State In the Art’, MAP Issue 1
#2 - May 2005
Commission: Walk the Walk Draw the Draw
Romanian artist Dan Perjovschi responds to the word ‘map’ with a clear outline of his world. The MAP Commission publishes new work by an artist each issue
Books: High Noon
Monograph of the work of Simon Patterson, published by the Fruitmarket and IKON, 2005
Books: John Bellany
A monograph by John McEwen, published by Mainstream Publishing, April 2005
Books: Ideas Leave Objects Standing
An artist book by David Bellingham, published by Platform Projects, Baltic, 2005
Books: The Garden of Cosmic Speculation
By Charles Jencks, published by Frances Lincoln, March 2005
Laurie Anderson
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 17 February-2 May and Queens Hall, Edinburgh, 29 April