A Year of Carte Blanche & Other Chimeras
Editorial
Our new MAP commissioning editor, Daniela Cascella, introduces the series A Year of Carte Blanche and Other Chimeras. Across twelve months she will bring together new work by writers, philosophers, artists and musicians, punctuated by editorial responses in the form of afterwords. In addition, MAP will continue to publish reviews and other texts
Painted Fragments
Victoria Horne examines new paintings by Alison Watt at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
The Deepest Gurgle I Ever Heard
Megan Rudden steps into the ‘fabricated ecosystem’ of the Jame St Findlay and Jonny Walker exhibition at Kiosk, Govanhill
Anam creative and The Alchemy Experiment
Maria Sledmere visits the launch of a new collaborative platform for musicians and artists in Glasgow
Bordered Miles: in the footsteps of Iman Tajik
Tom Jeffreys documents the 26 mile walk from Glasgow city centre to Dungavel House detention centre
A Measure of Longing
Enxhi Mandija reviews The Mourning Lines by Tamarin Norwood, MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE, 2021
A Year of Carte Blanche & Other Chimeras
The Book and the Lattice
by Richard Skelton
A Year of Carte Blanche & Other Chimeras
Editorial Response One: A Lichen, a Spell
Beginning a monthly series, Daniela Cascella transmits her thoughts on recent texts published as part of her year long project for MAP
Being Beside Oneself, 3
The final selection of writing by Lydia Davies
Being Beside Oneself, 2
Part 2 of a selection of writing by Lydia Davies
Being Beside Oneself, 1
Writing by Lydia Davies brings together a selection of short stories and segments from an eponymous essay that explores relational and narrative constructions of self through the transformative potential of souvenirs, grief and voice. Lydia is the recipient of this year’s John Calcutt Prize for Critical Writing, presented by The Glasgow School of Art in collaboration with MAP.
Rooms are shells, they are skins
Rose Higham-Stainton reviews two Munich exhibitions that cut deep imprints into institutional pasts
‘Where did you emerge? What are the creatures like?’
Rhian Williams speaks to Ane Lopez about this year’s Femspectives programme
The Muck of Language
Second in a series of responses to Edinburgh Art Festival, Tessa Berring offers reflections on ‘You hardboiled I softboiled’ at Rhubaba Gallery and Studios, featuring contributions from Jessica Yu, Sam Riviere, Valerie Norris, Rosalind Nashashibi, Masha Tupitsyn and Claire Walsh, 28 July - 27 August
#26 - November 2012
Not a Lighthouse
“She thought about deliberately reflecting a mistake, and what form this new mistake would take, and what this new mistake would mean” by Rebecca Wilcox
Remarks: Nottingham Central
Alex Farquharson, curator of the new Nottingham Contemporary, talks about the highlights of the year ahead and beyond
Live Film! Jack Smith! Five Flaming Days in a Rented World
28 October–1 November, various venues, Berlin
The Weather Makers
Calum Sutherland reviews ‘The Weather Makers’ by Kelly Richardson at Dundee Contemporary Arts, 23 September - 26 November
Poetry at Large: The poetic and archival practice of Paula Claire
Greg Thomas reviews the artist’s publications ‘Paula Claire, fromWORDtoART: Browsing the Paula Claire Archive; International PoetArtists’ and ‘WordsWorkWonders’
#10 - June 2007
Gustav Metzger: Revolutionary Constructions
Gustav Metzger in conversation with international curator Hans Ulrich Obrist reveals a visionary spirit active both politically and artistically across nearly seven decades. With a busy year ahead, Metzger is preparing to show at skulptur projecte munster
Matthieu Laurette
1 January–31 December, 2008 Blow de la Barra, London
Report: Contemporary Art Writing and it’s environs
Maria Fusco dips into Art Writing definitions and comes up with her own ideas
AMENABLE ARCHIVE
Edinburgh Art Festival: Calum Sutherland considers The Green Man by Lucy Skaer and others at Talbot Rice Gallery, 26 July - 6 October
MAP Screen | READING IN THE DARK
Curated by Suzanne van der Lingen | Instalment 1: ‘Voice—Text—Screen’, Peter Rose, Torsten Lauschmann, Allan Hughes
Emerging: Corin Sworn
Isla Leaver-Yap examines radical narratives in Corin Sworn’s practice
Rewind + Play: An Anthology of Early British Video Art
LUX, DVD, 2009, £30
#23 Autumn - September 2010
Response: Bullshit and Art’s ‘Discursive Turn’
Sean Ashton responds to Joanna Fiduccia’s provocative report on bullshit in MAP #22
#22 - June 2010
Emerging: Alice Guareschi
Michael Polsinelli uncovers the games and slippery metaphors in the work of this Italian artist
Moving Images from the Attic Archive
19 March–18 April, 2010, Cooper Gallery, Dundee
#16 Winter - November 2008
Remarks: Katy Dove
Katy Dove discusses her two year residency at Platform, Glasgow, and how working with community groups has reflected on her practice.
Unmasterable: an interview with James Bridle
William Kherbek interviews the artist, journalist, technologist and author of New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
SECOND EDITION of the Self-Illuminating Pen by Sarah Tripp
Following the success of this writer’s notebook, we are delighted to announce a reprint with new cover artwork by Ciara Phillips
A Report on the Production of Jeffrey Charles Henry Peacock
For the past four years Richard Birkett has received JCHP cards, their stark design farming assertions and declarations about art and society. Here, he describes this exclusive postal practice
Elmgreen & Dragset
12 October–15 November, 2008, Victoria Miro Gallery / Old Vic Theatre, London
Florida
Artist Nicola Murray found herself bamboozled in Florida at the end of last year.
Gorbals
Ruth Hedges rediscovers the photographs of her father Nick Hedges and visits the Gorbals in Glasgow, an area which he documented in the 60s, to find art on the streets
Every film screening, its own kind of love affair
Kaya Erdinç reviews Masha Tupitsyn’s latest book Picture Cycle, Semiotext(e)