An Announcement from MAP magazine
After a run of nearly 20 years, MAP magazine is now closed to pitches and commissions. It has been both a privilege and pleasure to have worked with so many wonderful contributors, editors and organisations across Scotland and beyond, throughout the life of this publishing project.
Vessels of hope
A response by Isabel Pérez-Ramos to the 2023 Portobello-based project Vessel. This is one of three texts commissioned by organisers Art Walk Projects and published by MAP
Fragments
A response to Vessel by Alycia Pirmohamed. This text, one of a trio published on MAP this month, was commissioned by Portobello-based Art Walk Projects as part of its 2023 Vessel programme
#70 - April 2024
Vessel on MAP
A Stitch in Time Saves Sunshine
A response by Maria Sledmere to the work of Jonathan Baxter, Tonya McMullan and Claudia Zeiske, all participants of the 2023 Art Walk Projects programme Vessel. This artist text is one of three AWP commissions to be published this month in collaboration with MAP
Back Page: Juliette Blightman
Dear Juliette We would like to invite you to write about the view from a window and whatever associated thoughts are inspired by it. We heard you are a bit of an avid rear-window photographer and thought this small project would go well with the domestic-space thematic inherent in your practice.Best, MAP
Introduction
Susannah Thompson and Marianne Greated introduce a MAP mini series, part of their recently launched, ongoing project Women Painting: Scottish Art 1940-1980
Threat and allure. The shore line. Close attention. Death.
As part of MAP’s ongoing collaboration with the Portobello-based project SALT, Melissa McCarthy responds to films selected by Rosy Naylor
Michael Fullerton: Triangulation Theory
Michael Fullerton’s oeuvre adds up to much more than the paintings so frequently associated with it. John Calcutt discovers a playfulness of thought and fascination for chemistry, and theories in general, in this strikingly inquisitive artist’s work
Remarks: Scotland and Venice 2011
Fiona Bradley, director of the Fruitmarket Gallery, talks about Scotland’s representation at the 54th Venice Biennale.
#12 Winter - November 2007
Review
William Eggleston
28 July–14 October 2007, Inverleith House, Edinburgh
Pinochet Porn — Ellen Cantor’s dark feature at Glasgow Film Festival 2019
A MAP screening curated by artist Georgia Horgan
as rivers flow and cities blossom
Guilherme Vilhena Martins reviews an exhibition in Hamburg by Leith-based Camila Ospina Gaitán and friend Juan Ricaurte Riveros
Andy Warhol: Self Portraits
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 12 Feb-2 May 2005
A Year of Carte Blanche & Other Chimeras
Our Lady of the Forest, Part 2
by Saudamini Deo
Meld / Blueprint
A selection of poems, taken from the publication by Judith Hagan, Jessica Higgins & Rebecca Wilcox, written in September 2019 at The Bower, Brunswick Park, Camberwell
Simon Dybbroe Møller: The Game of Rules
Dorothée Brill investigates a contradictory practice of rules and rebellion
A typeface narrative on the Ñ and its infected tilde
In 22 parts, one episode was added to the story every weekday throughout April 2019. This narrative by Catalina Barroso-Luque has now concluded and can be read in full.
Marcel Dzama: Tree With Roots
IKON GALLERY, BIRMINGHAM 24 MAY–16 JUL; CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, GLASGOW, 5 AUG–16 SEP, 2006
A Luminous Decay
On ‘A Moving X-Ray’, seven films by Sandra Lahire on Another Screen. By Caitlin Merrett King
#21 Spring - March 2010
On Several Works By Benoît Maire
Jonas Zakaitis investigates the artist’s relationship with logic, myth and the gaps between the two
Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub
13 November–20 December, 2009, Extra City, Antwerp
#37 - July 2016
a childish tune plays a keyboard anthem
A footnote by Aniela Piasecka to ‘Made to be Broken’, a collaboration with Paloma Proudfoot presented as part of Platform: 2016 at Edinburgh Art Festival
The Allure of Simultaneity
Kashif Sharma-Patel explores social poetics, culture and experimental writing in Anthony Joseph’s The Frequency of Magic
#8 - November 2006
Ice Station Isis
The Canadian duo Fastwürms post their Map Commission from the twin norths of Ontario and Aberdeenshire.