Index / Politics
Every contact leaves a trace
Anna McLauchlan encourages Adam Lewis Jacob’s ‘Emotional Need’, featuring works by anarchist Donald Rooum, the third commission in Collective’s Satellites programme
May all of your dreams come true
Anna McLauchlan experiences Ross Little’s ‘The Heavy of Your Body Parts and The Cool Air of the Air Condition’, the fourth commission in Collective’s Satellites programme
Dear We Have Been
Anthony Autumn responds to ‘Barricadia’ by Sahej Rahal at CCA, 16 September - 29 October
Challenge to Fascism: Glasgow’s May Day (1938)
Jenny Brownrigg and Shona Main write about Helen Biggar’s final film
Quiet Heat: an Introduction
Dave Young introduces ‘Quiet Heat: Archive Machines and War Fever’. Commissioned as part of ‘Footnoting the Archive’, and produced using research conducted during a remote residency at the Artist Run Data Center, run by Servus in Linz, Austria, in late 2015. The extended text is hosted by the Artist Run Data Centre and accessible at quietheat.dvyng.com
In Celebration of Grassroots and Grass Widows: Women’s Art Collaborations in Glasgow
An essay by Sarah Smith
#24 - November 2010
Emerging: Patrizio Di Massimo
Rebecca Geldard looks at the work of this young Italian artist
The Devil Makes Work
Fiona Jardine examines the relationship between art and the everyday world of work Nine Trades of Dundee, 1 July–31 October
Residency: Bik van der Pol
John Calcutt talks to Rotterdam duo Bik Van der Pol about taking the collaborative route during their stay at Cove Park near Glasgow
Pinochet Porn in Progress
Artist Ellen Cantor sketches out the narrative beginnings of an ambitious film project
Emerging: Peter Simensky
Mary Rinebold discovers the value of Neutral Capital in the investigative practice of this American artist
Duncan Campbell: Telling Stories
Ken Neil examines the existentialist core of Duncan Campbell’s prize-winning new film ‘Bernadette’
#8 - November 2006
Ice Station Isis
The Canadian duo Fastwürms post their Map Commission from the twin norths of Ontario and Aberdeenshire.
Art of the Public
Ken Neil investigates the work of Eva Merz and Dalziel + Scullion—artists taking a political view in the north
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
Certain of Nothing: Francis Alÿs
Francis McKee traces the path of Belgian artist Francis Alÿs as he explores the boundaries between politics, poetry and art
Novel - Issue One: Edited by Alun Rowlands and Matt Williams
ISBN 978-1- 906424-07-7, www.novelpublication.org
#23 Autumn - September 2010
Review
The Potosí Principle
12 May–6 September 2010, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Alan Smith: In Perpetuity
Ikon Gallery, London, 23 November 2005–22 January 2006
Swiss-Swiss Democracy, Thomas Hirschhorn
Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, 4 Dec 2004-30 Jan 2005
Orbus, Ellen Gallagher
The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 11 Dec 2004-13 Feb 2005
The Breath From Fertile Grounds
Claire Walsh on Otobong Nkanga’s solo exhibition at Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin, 8 December 2017 - 10 February 2018
Civil Rites
Fiona Anderson on Andrea Luka Zimmerman’s film at Tyneside cinema, Newcastle, part of Freedom City festival, 8 December 2017 - 22 January 2018
more of an avalanche
Helena Haimes on the group show at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, 11 February - 8 April
The you in us
Kylie Gilchrist reviews Lydia Ourahmane’s solo exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery, London, 26 January - 25 March