Healing Thoughts
William Kherbek reviews Honey-Suckle Company: Omnibus, ICA, London, 2 October 2019 to 12 January 2020
Having failed to get a room in a static caravan: a fragment of a fragment
A dual account of a day at Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival 2019. Alison Scott and Rosie Roberts writing as again+again.
On Venus
Daniel Fountain reviews Patrick Staff’s new show at the Serpentine Galleries, 8 November 2019 to 9 February 2020
The Twin
Esther Draycott responds to the Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art 2019. 4 October to 24 November
PENETRATE: TRANSLATE
A reading group led by Mexican artist Catalina Barroso-Luque. You’re invited to attend the final two Mondays in the CCA Clubroom, 25 November & 9 December at 6.30pm (finish approx 8.30pm)
Vahni Capildeo, Measures of Expatriation
MAP reading group, meeting three. Penetrate: Translate, CCA Club Room, Monday 11 November, 6.30pm
MAP Reviews Editor
This call out is now closed. Many thanks to all those who have applied. We’ll announce our new Reviews Editor in December.
Against dialogue, or, we need to sing to mountains
Notes from the 15th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, 19–22 September 2019. By Marcus Jack
ACCOMMODATION
Anna McLauchlan concludes this season of new writing inspired by residencies at Inshriach Bothy, Cairngorms
BEFORE, ROAD, INTUITION
Three texts by Sarah Rose. “I remember the score Native by composer Pauline Oliveros which instructs us to, ‘Take a walk at night. Walk so silently that the bottom of your feet become ears.’”
Creature
by Siân Robinson Davies. ‘Living alone for the first time, a new side of herself emerges.’
The Residency: Part 3
James N. Hutchinson’s story concludes. ‘Ultimately, the narratives represented [here] were filtered as a means to address ideas around democracy.’
The Residency: Part 2
James N. Hutchinson’s narrative continues. ‘I stand for a moment and glance around. I can’t see a car. Where could the third child be?’
The Residency: Part 1
James N. Hutchinson’s three-part narrative is situated in and around Inshriach Bothy. ‘What on Earth?… The whippet has no answer.’
Take Yourself Out of Your Usual Structure
Anna McLauchlan introduces a short September season of new writing inspired by residencies at Inshriach Bothy, Cairngorms.
Like an angel passing through my room
Event over. An evening with Jude Browning and Anne-Marie Copestake at CCA Glasgow, 6.30pm, Tuesday 24 September, 2019.
Choreography Concept for Untrained Amateurs
Gordon Douglas responds to a work by performance group, contact Gonzo, at BUoY, Tokyo, 28 - 29 October 2017
Unmastered, Remastered by Katherine Angel & The Blackburn Company
Curated reading of the book ‘Unmastered / A Book On Desire, Most Difficult to Tell’
Cindy, Hanna and Grayson
Neil Cooper reviews three exhibitions in the Edinburgh Art Festival. Cindy Sherman: Early Works, 1975-80, Stills until 6 October. Hanna Tuulikki: Deer Dancer, Edinburgh Printmakers until 5 October. Grayson Perry: Julie Cope’s Grand Tour, Dovecot Studios until 2 November
Vulpecula
A footnote by Suzanne van der Lingen, re-published in March 2019 as part of Issue #49, Couldn’t we just bee?
Naked and Practical
Amy Todman reviews a new collection of short stories, scenes and fragments by Siân Robinson Davies, published by tenletters
Gray Matters
Neil Mulholland examines the life’s work of Alasdair Gray, a Glasgow artist who has chronicled, in words and pictures, the city and the lives of his friends through the lens of a unique imagination
Take Yourself Out of Your Usual Structure
Anna McLauchlan introduces a short September season of new writing inspired by residencies at Inshriach Bothy, Cairngorms.
Hated Sexuality and Pinochet Porn
Georgia Horgan writes about the work of the late Ellen Cantor and this uncompromising artist’s take on the role of the ‘straight’ woman.
#21 Spring - March 2010
Response: Temporary Experts
Joanna Fiduccia reassesses the form of the artist’s lecture in the light of Karen Archey’s feature ‘All Talk, Some Action’ in MAP 20
back in at the deep end
Emma Balkind reflects on SINK by Janice Kerbel, commissioned by The Common Guild and performed at The Western Baths Club, Glasgow
Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing
Published by Phaidon, 2005, ISBN 0714845450
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
Scorpio’s Garden
12 October–15 November, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin
Gillian Wearing
24 March–10 June 2007, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento
Caribbean Connections in Scotland
Tiffany Boyle for Mother Tongue, writes on the work of Donald Locke, Aubrey Williams and Frank Bowling
Remarks: In These Troubled Times
Jesse Jones and Fiona Marron discuss their Dublin workshops
Posters take off in Glasgow
A set of 10 posters by Megan Rooney populated the city of Glasgow before and during her solo exhibition and performance at Tramway. Part of the MAP commission 2017.
Emerging: Alan Stanners
Darren Rhymes finds the work of this young Glasgow-based painter full of surreal intentions and growing towards abstract confidence
Sun Photographs
Ken Okiishi and Nick Mauss reflect on Zoe Leonard’s Sun Photographs
Wilhelm Sasnal: The Other Church
11–27 April 2008, 66-68 Osborne Street, Glasgow
Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ‘Dune’: An exhibition of a film of a book that never was
17 September–25 October, 2009, The Drawing Room, London
Studio: Callum Innes
With the turps drying on his survey show in September, Callum Innes welcomes Catriona Black and Luke Watson into his busy Edinburgh studio
Stephen Willats
14 November 2009–16 January 2010, Balice Hertling, Paris
#28 - February 2013