Index / Social
The Fruit of Their Actions
Laura Edbrook engages in the psychology of a recent work by artist duo Smith/Stewart
Remarks: In These Troubled Times
Jesse Jones and Fiona Marron discuss their Dublin workshops
…where the art is: the interwoven spaces of Radiophrenia…
Anna McLauchlan channels ‘Radiophrenia’, a fortnight of live broadcast sound and transmission arts
Gray Matters
To celebrate the brilliant life and work of Alasdair Gray, who died on 29 December 2019, we republish an article from 2010 by Neil Mulholland that examines the life’s work of the Glasgow artist/writer who chronicled, in words and pictures, the city and the lives of his friends through the lens of a startlingly unique imagination
Report: The Rise of Art Publishing
Artist-led publishing is on the increase, stimulating a growing number of both DIY and institutional publishing events. Kit Hammonds investigates
Emerging: Anna Molska
Malgorzata Mleczko finds the unexpected at the heart of Anna Molska’s practice
Emerging: Corin Sworn
Isla Leaver-Yap examines radical narratives in Corin Sworn’s practice
The Archive Is Not The Story
‘There is no individual authority on the history of Transmission, but a huge number of personal accounts from various perspectives’.[1] John Calcutt visits the gallery archives ahead of the move into Glasgow’s new Trongate 103 building
Report: Art, Adolescence and Sociality
Sean Ashton takes a view from the crowd during ‘Our Name is Legion’, an event orchestrated by Kelly Large in Sleaford at 3pm on 30 April, 2009
Emerging: Rupert Ackroyd
Rebecca Geldard finds a restrained formality in this young artist’s practice
Remarks: The New Showroom
Emily Pethick, curator of The Showroom talks about its re-opening and upcoming programme
Haris Epaminonda: Images in Search of Lost Time
Haris Epaminonda’s recent series of Polaroids dovetail reality and imagination. Isla Leaver-Yap investigates
Remarks: Collective Recipes
Palermo-based artist Aleksandra Mir discusses her new book project.
#17 Spring - March 2009
Roundtable
MAP asked the following artists and organisers to contribute towards a debate on artist-run spaces in Glasgow and beyond
Remarks: Pavilion Unicredit
Eugen Radescu is co-director of Bucharest’s latest contemporary art venue, PAVILION UNICREDIT.
Cyprien Gaillard: Recycling the Ruins
Cyprien Gaillard recently witnessed the destruction of high rise buildings in Glasgow: acute observations of this are the subject of his new work. Joanna Fiduccia talks to him about his practice and the death and decay of modernism in urban architecture
#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.
Report: Exhibition by Commission
Jane Neal traces the path of a new phenomenon in British art: the meteoric rise of the public commission.
Emerging: Maria Pires
We introduce two pairs of artists who attracted attention at the Edinburgh Art Festival 2006; and two individual artists who are making a visible mark on the landscape of environmental art
Residency: Fringe Fraternity
Cathryn Drake visits Sicily to talk to Duncan Marquiss about his new work, artists’ groups and living in Italy
The Young Athenians
Edinburgh’s young artists move into the Royal Scottish Academy this autumn. Are they beating or joining the establishment game? Alex Kennedy tiptoes into hallowed spaces and asks a few of the players what side they are on.
#1 - February 2005
State in the Art
Art for art’s sake or social improvement? Catriona Black investigates
Liverpool International 08: Made Up
20 September–30 November, 2008, Various venues, Liverpool
Generosity is the New Political
5 September–1 November, 2009, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge
In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960-1976
19 July–5 October, MoMA, 2009, New York
Novel - Issue One: Edited by Alun Rowlands and Matt Williams
ISBN 978-1- 906424-07-7, www.novelpublication.org
Living Together
23 January–3 May, Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturunea, Vitoria
Gillian Wearing
24 March–10 June 2007, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento
In Place of Hate
Jessica Ramm considers the results of Edmund Clark’s three-year residency at HMP Grendon, the UK’s only therapeutic prison. Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 6 December 2017 - 11 March 2018