‘Only the mineral remains’
A commentary by writer, researcher and activist Keir Milburn in response to Andrew Black’s Margaret Tait Commission film, ‘On Clogger Lane’
Little Palestine
Elhum Shakerifar’s reflection on Abdallah Al-Khatib’s poetry and film was first published on MAP in 2021 in Issue #63. We republish it now with a new introduction.
You know it’s not the same as it was:
Caitlin Merrett King attends The Promise of Pleasure, the closing event for Good Bad Books?, a series of workshops and talks organised by Naomi Pearce and Anna Bunting-Branch and held at the Barbican in August/September 2023
‘As if writing were not sleeping’
Hilary White reviews Marie Darrieussecq’s Sleepless
Public Library
Jacob Hoffman on a new programme of events in a community space hosted by The Dissenter for Space Studies, Edinburgh
MAP x EAF
Guest editor Rosie Roberts introduces her five commissioned responses to Edinburgh Art Festival, 2023
WHAT A FEELING! ACT I
Saoirse Amira Anis responds to Christian Noelle Charles’ WHAT A FEELING! Part I, at Edinburgh Printmakers. This is one of a series on the Edinburgh Art Festival 2023, commissioned for MAP by Rosie Roberts
Calvin & Dorothy Towers
Calvin Z Laing responds to Sean Burns’ work Dorothy Towers as part of an Edinburgh Art Festival 2023 series, commissioned by Rosie Roberts
Care with Composition
MAP X EAF guest editor Rosie Roberts, writes to Markéta Luskačová regarding her 2023 exhibition at Stills, Edinburgh
Park Life
Caitlin Merrett King documents Jupiter Rising X EAF Party as part of a series of responses to Edinburgh Art Festival 2023, commissioned by Rosie Roberts for MAP
Poems as Portals
Phil Crockett Thomas responds to Nat Raha: epistolary (on carceral islands). Part of Rosie Roberts’ Edinburgh Art Festival 2023 series
Extended to Attract and Repel
Eilidh Akilade finds much to weigh up on her tour of the Edinburgh sewage works with artist Tonya McMullan. The drawing tour was part of Art Walk Porty Festival’s Extended Programme and curated project Vessel
Repeat Patterns
New work by Helen de Main & Mandy McIntosh at the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow. Review by Catherine Spencer
Take a Walk
‘A visit to Art Walk Porty, across the two hottest days of the year, feels like every artwork is looking over its shoulder to somewhere else along the coastline, fragments from a whole that is variably very close or out in the distance, like the tide or a toilet flush.’ Timothea Armour puts on her sunscreen.
Vessel
Founder and curator of Art Walk Projects, Rosy Naylor introduces this year’s theme, exploring questions of resilience, care and adaptability in the face of global climate questions. This also marks the continuation of an ongoing editorial partnership with MAP
The Flesh, the Mesh, the Mushroom
Writing Fungal Poetry Through Deep Collaboration. By Fiona Glen and Nina Hanz. Their book Mycoglossia is published by HVTN Press
A Year of Carte Blanche & Other Chimeras
Dialogue of Chimera and D.C.
After January’s commissions in ‘A Year of Carte Blanche and Other Chimeras’
Performance & Energy: 2nd Invitation from Good on Paper
Over six months, Gordon Douglas & Cicely Farrer share a series of invitations looking into the futures of performance art making in Scotland. The second letter invites readers to attend an online workshop Sunday 29 May 2022 from 11am-1pm
Feasting on Words
Language gets swilled about, chopped and chewed, slid around, and spat out, ready to be eaten up again. Sara O’Brien reviews ‘Old Food’, a novel by Ed Atkins
Remarks: The New Showroom
Emily Pethick, curator of The Showroom talks about its re-opening and upcoming programme
Matthew Barney
20 September–11 November 2007, Serpentine Gallery, London
Books: Art Power
Boris Groys mitpress.mit.edu ISBN 978-0-262-07292-2
By Likeness
Lila Matsumoto’s ekphrastic response to ‘Artificial Sensibility’ by It’s Our Playground at Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham, 22 September - 27 October
ALCHEMY FILM FESTIVAL, LIVE
Alexander Storey-Gordon tuned into (and out of) the digital programme, 1-3 May 2020
Rosa Barba
18 November 2007–6 January 2008, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam
Books: Video: The Reflexive Medium
Yvonne Spielmann www.mitpress.mit.ed ISBN: 978-0-262-19566-9
Things, tunnels, traces, thoughts: Part One
A momentary gathering of words by Tom Jeffreys in response to new work by Stephanie Mann
Emerging: Rupert Ackroyd
Rebecca Geldard finds a restrained formality in this young artist’s practice
Boys’ Club
Dada is back… or perhaps it never went away. As a major retrospective transfers from Paris to New York, an exhibition in Edinburgh explores the influence of the ‘anti-art’ movement on today’s British practitioners. So is it all dirty jokes and Oedipal angst, or should our hearts belong to Dada?
Electric Speech
Emma Balkind reviews Telephone by Ariana Reines, published by Wonder
Elizabeth Ogilvie: Bodies of Water
DCA, Dundee, 16 December 2005-12 February 2006
a new thread, wayward
Rebecca Wilcox responds to Virginia Woolf: an exhibition inspired by her writings at Tate St Ives, 10 February - 29 April
TENANCY Part 5: on recipes ii
orchestrated by Rebecca May Johnson, Edwina Attlee, Jen Calleja, Huw Lemmey, Nina Mingya Powles and Rebecca Tamás make Reiz Kugel
Emerging: Laura Aldridge
Francis McKee looks at the work of Laura Aldridge
YOU KNOW IT BUT IT DON’T KNOW YOU
After TAKO TAAL: a 5 poem series by Alycia Pirmohamed
You Know, Things Like That
Catherine Spencer reviews Helen de Main’s collaborative exhibition at Platform, Glasgow, 26 November 2017 - 11 February 2018
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
YOU’VE GOT A NICE VOICE ACTUALLY, SCOTT
A review of Scott Caruth & Alex Hetherington’s joint exhibition Seen and Not Seen by Jess Higgins
Report: Exhibition by Commission
Jane Neal traces the path of a new phenomenon in British art: the meteoric rise of the public commission.
#37 - February 2016