Index / Film and video
#39 - July 2017
Review
this scattering of minds; like seeds
Kirsty Hendry responds to a film screening and Q&A with artist Sulaïman Majali at Transmission GalleryA Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions
Eliel Jones reviews Arthur Jafa’s exhibition at Serpentine Sackler Gallery, 8 June - 10 SeptemberWith the sun aglow, I have my pensive moods
Fourth in a series of responses to Edinburgh Art Festival, Jessica Ramm reflects on Shannon Te Ao’s installation in Gladstone Court, 27 July - 27 AugustMULTIPLEXING II
A text by Mike Sperlinger in collaboration with MULTIPLEXING, a cinema event originally presented in south London in 2014 and restaged in Glasgow on 21 March 2017. The programme celebrates the legacy of artist, performer, curator and writer, Ian White (1971-2013) through his influential teaching position with LUXDROSTE
A new film by Mairi Lafferty made on residency at no.w.here, London was made available as part of ‘Footnoting the Archive’.The orphans of a GENERATION
Preserving the legacy of Margaret Tait. Essay by Sarah NeelyNervous Skies
Nervous Skies is a transatlantic collaboration between Amelia Bande, Deborah Bower, Annette Knol and Mat Fleming. An installation of 16mm film, slides and text shown in multiple projections, it was first exhibited at the NewBridge Project, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in April and May 2015. Essay by Susannah ThompsonO.K. Rick [Review]
Jenny Brownrigg responds to the Florrie James work screened in February at the Glasgow Film Festival.I, THE OTHER, THE SPACE BETWEEN: READING IN THE DARK
Essay by Suzanne van der LingenMAP Screen | READING IN THE DARK
Curated by Suzanne van der Lingen | Instalment 1: ‘Voice—Text—Screen’, Peter Rose, Torsten Lauschmann, Allan HughesShoplifters Shopgirls
Glasgow-based artists Sophie Macpherson and Clare Stephenson talk to Steven Cairns about their recent collaboration and how theatrical contexts have shaped itRemarks: Lucy Skaer
Using the site of an abandoned cinema for display, the artist outlines her forthcoming project in Leeds
#37 - January 2016
edits-while-u-wait: Video Documentation
Video documentation of the second session of edits-while-u-wait, April 2015, ESW
#37 - February 2016
A conglomerate of voices rise up like hidden steam: Video
A video by Stephanie MannVulpecula
A footnote by Suzanne van der Lingen, re-published in March 2019 as part of Issue #49, Couldn’t we just bee?The bits of ourselves we leave behind
An essay in fragments by Sarah Neely, with extracts from the archive of Margaret TaitHow to Fake Your Own Death
The characters in this text are fictitious and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Essay film by Suzanne van der LingenMAP Screen | READING IN THE DARK
Curated by Suzanne van der Lingen | Instalment 2: Gerard Byrne, Sarah Forrest, Laure Prouvost, Peter Rose | Readings by Laura Edbrook & Sarah Forrest and Suzanne van der Lingen | Screened 25 February. Event images online
#32 - September 2014
MAP at Platform
‘A Feminist Chorus’ film screening during 21 Revolutions exhibition at Platform, Glasgow, 7 November—7 December, 2014‘A Feminist Chorus’ by Lucy Reynolds, curated by MAP
Glasgow International: ‘A Feminist Chorus’, one film, two sound works and a performance, spanning three venues, 5—21 April, Glasgow Women’s Library, Glasgow School of Art & 5 Blythswood SquareLucy Reynolds: Talks
Glasgow School of Art, Friday Event at the Glasgow Film Theatre, 11am—12:30pm, 14 February 2014 | Edinburgh College of Art, Friday Talk, Main Lecture Theatre, 11.30am—1pm, 28 March 2014‘A Feminist Chorus’
Live at Glasgow Women’s Library, Saturday 5 April, Glasgow International 2014
#30 - November 2013
MAP Screen | The Anthropology Effect
For the second installment of MAP Screen, Karen Cunningham selects three works—two clips from vintage television documentaries presented by David Attenborough and John Grierson and a video piece by Glasgow-based artist David SherryMAP Screen | The Anthropology Effect
This new season of film and video selected by Karen Cunningham opens with Ravi Govender, ‘Localized’, 2013 and Adam Chodzko, ‘The Pickers’, 2009and from then on we lived on blueberries for about a week
We are pleased to present two videos by Lisa Myers, one new for MAP and both part of ‘Blueprints for a Long Walk’, an ongoing piece that works through a family story of survival and resilienceThe gatekeepers’ movements invent another language
Laura Edbrook’s text was written to accompany the video work ‘The End is the Beginning’The End is the Beginning
MAP presents new work by Mhari McMullan & Urara Tsuchiya with score and video edit by Nick PackerClément Rodzielski
Joanna Fiduccia unravels enigma and invention in the work of this young French artistIn Production: Discoteca Flaming Star
Anita Di Bianco interviews Cristina Gómez Barrio and Wolfgang Mayer
#22 - June 2010
POOL Group: Deriving History from Hindsight
Steven Cairns discovers the humanity in the films of the overlooked POOL Group
#21 Spring - March 2010
Dispatches from Ben Rivers on location for his forthcoming sci-fi project
Filmmaker Ben Rivers discusses his latest project, which has taken him to Lanzarote, Japan, New Zealand and TuvaluPulling Strings
Alessandro Rabottini falls for the work of Portuguese collaborators João Maria Gusmão and Pedro PaivaEmerging: Anna Molska
Malgorzata Mleczko finds the unexpected at the heart of Anna Molska’s practicePinochet Porn in Progress
Artist Ellen Cantor sketches out the narrative beginnings of an ambitious film projectProduction: Anja Kirschner & David Panos
Steven Cairns gets to the bottom of ‘The Last Days of Jack Sheppard’, a film based on inferred prison encounters between the eponomous 18th century criminal and Daniel Defoe, ghostwriter of Sheppard’s ‘autobiography’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’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.Back Page: Jane and Louise Wilson
Jane and Louise Wilson, film still from ‘Unfolding the Aryan Papers’, 2009The Way In
Luke Fowler’s films exist on the margins of documentary. Martin Herbert examines the artist’s archiveEmerging: Stina Wirfelt
Alhena Katsof explores Stina Wirfelt’s suburban portraitsRemarks: New Commission for Threshold
In his first solo show in the UK, Igor Krenz creates new work for Threshold artspace’s permanent collection. Here, he talks about the commission ‘Circles and Squares’ and his YouTube Mix.Residency: Jordan Baseman
Ilsa Colsell discovers power and honesty in the films of Jordan BasemanHayley Tompkins: Hypothetically Seeing
Joanna Fiduccia visits Glasgow to meet Hayley Tompkins, in whose work she discovers abstraction of an extended, visionary nature
#16 Winter - November 2008
Remarks: Katy Dove
Katy Dove discusses her two year residency at Platform, Glasgow, and how working with community groups has reflected on her practice.Duncan Campbell: Telling Stories
Ken Neil examines the existentialist core of Duncan Campbell’s prize-winning new film ‘Bernadette’Craig Mulholland: Viral Transmissions
Craig Mulholland talks to Susannah Thompson in the run-up to a series of exhibitions showcasing a major new body of work, Grandes et Petites Machines. A re-edited version of his new film ‘Peer to Peer’ has been commissioned for MAP and can be viewed in the Commission pages of the website or by clicking below
#13 Spring - March 2008
Wilhelm Sasnal: Deluxe Punk
‘You are telling me things, but what do you actually mean by that? Whats your point? Lukasz Ronduda digs deep into the work of Polish artist Wilhelm SasnalEmerging: Ann Bowman
Hollywood to Glasgow, this young American artist explores fantasy and glamour with a sharp film-maker’s eyeReport: Expanded Cinema: Time/Space/Structure
Luke Fowler reports on the history of expanded cinemaAernout Mik: Deadlock
Barry Schwabsky examines the truths behind the video work of renowned Netherlands artist Aernout Mik and wonders just how close we all are to being extras in one of his videosReport: Can Video Thrive as a Marginal Activity?
Isla Leaver-Yap reports on the state of video art in ScotlandA Watchful Eye
Victoria Miguel interviews artist Rosalind Nashashibi about her recent residency in New York and making filmsSongs 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’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 barrierDub Rabbie: Graham Fagen
Neil Cooper mixes with Glasgow artist Graham Fagen, reggae king Adrian Sherwood and Ayrshire bard Robert BurnsLive Film! Jack Smith! Five Flaming Days in a Rented World
28 October–1 November, various venues, BerlinAndreas Bunte
7 November–9 December, 2009, Galerie Ben Kaufmann, BerlinAllan Sekula
12 December 2009–28 February 2010, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, WarsawDanièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub
13 November–20 December, 2009, Extra City, AntwerpMatthieu Laurette
1 January–31 December, 2008 Blow de la Barra, LondonBill Viola
19 June–5 September, 2009, Pier Arts Centre, StromnessMichael Smith
16 January–20, 2010, February Ellen de Bruijne Projects, AmsterdamRewind + Play: An Anthology of Early British Video Art
LUX, DVD, 2009, £30Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ‘Dune’: An exhibition of a film of a book that never was
17 September–25 October, 2009, The Drawing Room, LondonDance With Camera
11 September 2009–21 March 2010, ICA, PhiladelphiaExpanded Cinema: The Live Record
6 December 2008, BFI Southbank, LondonLanglands & Bell
25 October–13 December, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
#24 - November 2010
Review
Elizabeth McAlpine
26 October–20 November, Laura Bartlett Gallery, LondonDavid Hominal
11 June–15 August 2010, Centre d’Art Contemporain, GenevaDundee: Moving Images from the Attic Archive
19 March–18 April, 2010, Cooper GalleryThe Hidden / Lars Laumann
19 January–24 February 2008, Maureen Paley, LondonBooks: Video: The Reflexive Medium
Yvonne Spielmann www.mitpress.mit.ed ISBN: 978-0-262-19566-9Wilhelm Sasnal: The Other Church
11–27 April 2008, 66-68 Osborne Street, GlasgowUlla von Brandenburg
18 January–24 February 2008, Stedelijk Museum, AmsterdamRosa Barba
18 November 2007–6 January 2008, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, AmsterdamLuke Fowler & Charlie Hammond
19–24 January 2008, Buccleuch Street, GlasgowBroadcast Yourself
28 February–5 April 2008, Hatton Gallery, NewcastleRosalind Nashashibi: Bachelor Machines
Part 1, Scotland and Venice, 10 June–2 November 2007, Palazzo Zenobio, Venice Part 2, Art Statements, 4–8 June 2007, Art BaselMarc Bijl, Gerard Byrne, Valerie Jouve
21 April–23 June 2007, Aliceday, BrusselsBooks: 40 Years Videoart.de
PART1: Digital Heritage: Video Art in Germany 1963 to the present Rudolf Frieling/Wulf Herzogenrath www.hatjecantz.de English edition ISBN 978-3-77571-717-5 £24.95Killing Time
9 September–5 November 2006, Dundee Contemporary Arts, DundeeZidane: a 21st Century Portrait
CANNES FILM FESTIVAL WORLD PREMIERE 23 APR EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 19/20 AUG, 2006, CannesThere Where You Are Not
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton 31 May–9 July 2005Elizabeth Ogilvie: Bodies of Water
DCA, Dundee, 16 December 2005-12 February 2006
#4 - December 2005
Review