Index / Fiction
My Favourite Sister’s Uncle
Colin Herd responds to an exhibition by Charlie Billingham and Zin Taylor at Independent Régence Brussels, 7 September - 7 October
The Fruit of Their Actions
Laura Edbrook engages in the psychology of a recent work by artist duo Smith/Stewart
Jesse Jones: Men in Dark Times
Artist Jesse Jones presents an excerpt from her forthcoming project, The Centre of the Elephant
Etienne Chambaud: The Hole of the Matter
Joanna Fiduccia discovers the work of Etienne Chambaud is punctured with an element of surprise
Back Page: ‘Brain 2’, 2009
An encoded broadcast on Channel 21, Citizen’s Band. A script by Nathaniel Mellors
Charles Avery: Mythologies
Charles Avery’s entire practice is built on the creation of a new world, an island place where cults and gulls and islanders all play their part. Anthony Spira explores its boundaries
Commission: Ruth Ewan
A set of four postcards by Ruth Ewan have been commissioned for this issue of MAP
Commission: Alasdair Gray
To commemorate the life of Alasdair Gray, we also republish his MAP commission. “As he prepares for his Glasgow International solo exhibition at Sorcha Dallas, artist and celebrated author of Lanark, Alasdair Gray publishes for the first time his Prologue to The Tragedy of Faust” MAP, Spring Issue, 2008
Emerging: Jamie Shovlin
Steven Cairns looks at the work of emerging artist Jamie Shovlin
Lucy Skaer: Drawing Close
Glasgow-based artist Lucy Skaer is interested in fictions and histories. Highly articulate in the medium of drawing, she also makes films and installation and installations with charged imagination. Here, she is in conversation with Isla Leaver-Yap
Elmgreen & Dragset
12 October–15 November, 2008, Victoria Miro Gallery / Old Vic Theatre, London
Sarah Anne Johnson
4 July– 23 August, 2009, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ‘Dune’: An exhibition of a film of a book that never was
17 September–25 October, 2009, The Drawing Room, London
#14 Summer - June 2008
Review
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art
6 March—18 May 2008, Barbican, London
Books: Let Me Show You Some Things
Sarah Tripp www.thelighthouse.co.uk £10