Index / Venues
Remarks: The Briggait reopens
Alison Fullerton of WASPS views The Briggait, a stunning new artist development in the heart of Glasgow, due to open in December 2009.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 buildingENLIGHTENED COMMISSION
Curator of the 2009 Edinburgh International Festival’s ‘The Enlightenments’ programme, Juliana Engberg is enthuses over the commission by Joseph KosuthRemarks: The New Showroom
Emily Pethick, curator of The Showroom talks about its re-opening and upcoming programmeRemarks: Nottingham Central
Alex Farquharson, curator of the new Nottingham Contemporary, talks about the highlights of the year ahead and beyondRemarks: Art Under the Arches
Director Kendall Koppe introduces the new permanent space for artist-run gallery, Washington Garcia.Remarks: New Commissioning Award
Director Paul Hobson reveals the Contemporary Art Society’s key objectives for its ambitious new award.Remarks: Eastside Projects
Gavin Wade, curator of Eastside Projects, which opened in Birmingham end 2008, talks about collaborative work with artists.
#17 Spring - March 2009
Roundtable
MAP asked the following artists and organisers to contribute towards a debate on artist-run spaces in Glasgow and beyondRemarks: Artist Rooms
Senior curator at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Philip Long introduces the much-awaited ARTIST ROOMS, lauched 22 January and set to take contemporary art to unexpected places.Remarks: Pavilion Unicredit
Eugen Radescu is co-director of Bucharest’s latest contemporary art venue, PAVILION UNICREDIT.
#17 Spring - March 2009
Remarks: Lighthouse Space
Janine Sproule introduces Sierra Metro, opened in October 2008 as a new, independent not-for-profit artist run space.Residency: Abraham Cruzvillegas
Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas spent six months at Cove Park this summer shaping an exhibition for Glasgow’s CCA. The result is AutoconstrucciónRemarks: GSS
Beagles & Ramsay have undertaken the first production residency at Glasgow Sculpture Studios’ new home to develop their practice and create two monumental sculptures.
#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.Remarks: Moot Moves
Tom Godfrey, one of four artist/directors of Nottingham’s Moot organisation is excited about new prospects opened up by the occupation of new premises.Remark: New Aberdeen Space
A new space for contemporary visual art in Aberdeen is scheduled to open by 2011. Lindsay Gordon, director of Peacock Visual Arts, is confident of its potential impact on culture in the north.Remarks: The Changing Room
Kirsteen Macdonald on The Changing Room’s new premisesLoris Gréaud: On and Off
Christophe Gallois interviews Loris Gréaud, an artist who manipulates and expands the art of exhibition-making. Following the showing of Cellar Door at the Palais de Tokyo, the ICA hosts the second version of the exhibition which brings together opera, architecture and black champagneResidency: Words and Sculpture (Huntley)
Duncan McLaren visits Huntley and finds a festival of art and wordsA Strategic History of Art
Richard Demarco looks back at the long and inspirational road he has travelled, which has led him to operate today under the shadow of a nuclear power station
#2 - May 2005