TENANCY Part 12: Public Transports
a conversation between So Mayer and Sarah Turner
Mountain Water
April Yee reviews Minari and Mekong 2030, two films from this year’s Glasgow Film Festival
Blue Monday, Part 3
A duo of poems, Border Control 1 & 2, completes this MAP selection from Blue Monday by Zara Joan Miller
Blue Monday, Part 2
The second group of 3 poems from Zara Joan Miller’s Blue Monday series
Blue Monday, Part 1
The first 3 in a suite of poems by Zara Joan Miller, published by MAP across 3 days. These form part of a larger collection by Miller, written over the past 3 years. The ‘Blue Monday’ phenomenon claims that the third Monday in January is the most depressing day of the year
Before Emergence: A Means of Break/age
by Martha Adonai Williams
Weird Folds
Susannah Thompson reads an expansive anthology of poetry just published. ‘I can’t breathe but it’s worth it’
MAP Editorial Residency 2020
Rosie Roberts & Alison Scott finished their near year long programme in December—we celebrate their contribution
Back Page: Rear Window Cinema
Alison Scott shares notes on the window as cinema and a series of ‘Back Pages’ in the MAP archive, offering a Back Page to this extended issue
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
Part 7: ‘Matter as a Hope of Finding Some Answers.’ LATVIA
‘Opening up even more, instead of closing in around national borders, should be the response.’ Curators Valentinas Klimašauskas and Inga Lāce continue our 15 part season.
In Production: Discoteca Flaming Star
Anita Di Bianco interviews Cristina Gómez Barrio and Wolfgang Mayer
Handwritten personal details on a deck of fluorescent green playing cards
Second in a series of research texts by Gordon Douglas reporting on encounters with collaborative practice in Japan
FOCUS: 52nd Venice Biennale—Reflections
10 June–21 November 2007, Venice
Andreas Bunte
7 November–9 December, 2009, Galerie Ben Kaufmann, Berlin
Compositional Insurgencies
Sarah Messerschmidt shares thoughts on Shade Théret’s choreographic practice
#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
You Have Not Been Honest
24 May–1 October 2007, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples
Letter to my cats, Prague, 5 July, 1985
The third in a series of letters written by Ester Krumbachová, published in conjunction with the exhibition and film programme of the Czech artist’s work at CCA Glasgow, 7 Dec 2018 to 27 January 2019
Whitney Biennial 2008 / Judy Chicago
6 March–1 June 2008, Whitney Museum of American Art / Long-term installation, Brooklyn Museum, New York
Ambiguous Heterotopias
James Bell reviews Seized by the Left Hand at Dundee Contemporary Arts
‘A Feminist Chorus’ by Lucy Reynolds | Recording, March 2014
Recording for A Feminist Chorus at Glasgow Kelvin College, 21 March, 2014
The Poets Still Throwing Up Their Hands
THE CHANGING ROOM 29 APR–10 JUN, 2006, Stirling
#4 - December 2005
Review
Robert Smithson
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 22 June-16 October
Part 10: ‘Matter as a Hope of Finding Some Answers’ CROATIA
‘Traces of Disappearing, the project I am presenting in Venice, has been in progress for thirteen years…’ Response from artist Igor Grubić.
Notes from Venice
Claire Walsh offers notes from the Venice Biennale ‘Viva Arte Viva’ 13 May - 26 November
Books: Kara Walker: My Compliment, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love
Edited by Michelle Piranio www.Hatjecantze.com ISBN 978-3-7757-1932-239
#39 - July 2017
Review
this scattering of minds; like seeds
Kirsty Hendry responds to a film screening and Q&A with artist Sulaïman Majali at Transmission Gallery
Back Page: Jane and Louise Wilson
Jane and Louise Wilson, film still from ‘Unfolding the Aryan Papers’, 2009
‘Sick Sick Sick’ : The Books of Ornery Women
A reading project examining a radical or ‘bludgeoned’ subjectivity of female writers | Session Six : 6.30pm, CCA Cinema, Thu 25 Sep : reading Love Dog by Masha Tupitsyn
In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960-1976
19 July–5 October, MoMA, 2009, New York
Remarks: 2HB
Louise Shelley announces a new publishing project for innovative creative art writing, to be launched by CCA, Glasgow, in March.
Abstract Capitalist Realism
Alastair MacKinven reflects on his current practice
#2 - May 2005
Letter to MAP: Johnny Gailey
Letter from Johnny Gailey, photographer and arts worker, in response to ‘State In the Art’, MAP Issue 1
Part 2: The Self-Illuminating Pen
The-Here-and-Now-Word. ‘What turns out to be astonishing is the way this pen illuminates one word at a time.’ Sarah Tripp continues to write deep into the dark.