Can Loneliness Perform a Politics?
Catalina Barroso-Luque reflects on her project Penetrate: Translate—an exercise in the political practice of being lonely together. Three texts, that celebrate the conclusion of the eponymous five session reading group, will be published each day this week.
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
Hanging Out
Artist Moving Image Festival, LUX Scotland at Tramway, Glasgow, 16/17 November 2019. Review by Cicely Farrer
Penetrate: Translate reading group
Final session. Pinochet Porn in Progress by Ellen Cantor. CCA Clubroom, Monday 9 December, 6.30pm
Penetrate: Translate reading group
Session Four. NOW OVER. Ban en Banlieue by Bhanu Kapil. CCA, Monday 25 November, 6.30pm
Healing Thoughts
William Kherbek reviews Honey-Suckle Company: Omnibus, ICA, London, 2 October 2019 to 12 January 2020
Penetrate: Translate reading group overview
A MAP reading group led and devised by Catalina Barroso-Luque, a Mexican artist living in Glasgow.
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 reading group
Session three. NOW OVER. Vahni Capildeo, Measures of Expatriation. CCA, 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.’”
Guy de Cointet
Giles Bailey meets Marie de Brugerolle to talk about the renewed interest in the avant-garde artist’s surreal performances
Report: What is ‘Public’ in Public Art?
Christophe Gallois on the Site-Specific
To Those in Search of Immunity
Last in a series of responses to Edinburgh Art Festival, Gordon Douglas takes the latest of Collective’s ‘Oberservers’ Walks’ by Patrick Staff, engaging with Calton Hill’s botanical, queer and historical entanglements 27 July - 27 August
Between Earth & Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner
20 March—26 July, The Lighthouse, Glasgow
#29 - August 2013
In the Shadow of the Hand : Object 7a
A witness statement in the form of a text and image, produced in response to Object 6a ‘Woman Crawling On Hands And Knees’. A collaborative project by Sarah Forrest and Virginia Hutchison
#24 - November 2010
Review
Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965–1980
11 September–28 November, University of Toronto Art Galleries
Dear We Have Been
Anthony Autumn responds to ‘Barricadia’ by Sahej Rahal at CCA, 16 September - 29 October
Deeper In The Pyramid
Laura O’Leary explores Melanie Jackson’s exhibition at Grand Union, Birmingham, 2 February - 21 April
Haris Epaminonda: Images in Search of Lost Time
Haris Epaminonda’s recent series of Polaroids dovetail reality and imagination. Isla Leaver-Yap investigates
Folded multi-page travel itineraries with stage directions
The first in a series of research texts by Gordon Douglas reporting on encounters with collaborative practice in Japan
WOMAN WITH A RED HAT
Edinburgh Art Festival: Tom Jeffreys reflects on ‘Event for a Stage’ by Tacita Dean, part of Woman with a Red Hat, Fruitmarket, 7 July - 30 September
Emerging: Anna Molska
Malgorzata Mleczko finds the unexpected at the heart of Anna Molska’s practice
“More generous and more suspicious”
Anna Bunting Branch examines Feminist SF as a worldbuilding practice
#4 - December 2005
Review
Books: The Book of David Shrigley
Published by Redstone Press, October 2005
Showstoppers
Calum Gardner responds to ‘Showstoppers - Silver Centrepieces’ at Temple Newsam House, Leeds, 13 May - 15 October
Emerging: In the Fields
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
Static Cinema
29 September–10 October, 2009, Intermedia, CCA, Glasgow
Neal Tait: Now is the Discount of our Winter Tents
15 September–21 October 2006, White Cube, London
Berlin & Bucharest
25 March–5 June 2006, 4th Berlin Biennale 26 May–27 June 2006, 2nd Bucharest Biennale
GI reviews and responses
Last in a series of reviews and responses to Glasgow International 2018, Maria Howard writes on Nadia Myre at The Briggait, Cross-feed by Gary Zhexi Zhang & Aniara Omann and Self-Service by Kirsty Hendry & Ilona Sagar
Who Wants a Pope?
Coline Milliard explores the pop world of the late Ray Johnson, founder of mail art & an artist currently receiving critical reappraisal
The orphans of a GENERATION
Preserving the legacy of Margaret Tait. Essay by Sarah Neely
#10 - June 2007
Emerging: Catherine Street
Ruth Beal talks to an artist who offers ‘a glimpse through a velvet curtain’
Amsterdam
Morag Keil, 3 March–14 April, Grimm Fine Art 14 / Lucy Stein, 3 March–14 April, Galerie Martin van Zomeren / Sue Tompkins, 3 March–7 April, Galerie Diana Stigter
#37 - June 2016