Editorial: Crossing the Celestial Equator
A mini MAP season for autumn
Private Sectors
Jamie Limond reviews Caroline Walker: Windows at KM21, The Hague
Little Palestine
Elhum Shakerifar reflects on Abdallah Al-Khatib’s poetry and film
The intimate boundaries of Istanbul
Helen Mackreath explores the city through three films
Hobbyhorses: On Maggie Nelson
Christopher Law considers On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint (2021)
Tax the Rich
Caitlin Merrett King visits Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 2021 and considers the economics at play in the work of Ane Hjort Guttu, Rehana Zaman and Jordan Lord
Katie Schwab Living With Nicole Morris
Part 6 of Living With: 6 artists, 6 homes
Nicole Morris Living With Alicia Reyes McNamara
Part 5 of Living With: 6 artists, 6 homes
Alicia Reyes McNamara Living With Maria de Lima
Part 4 of Living With: 6 artists, 6 homes
Maria de Lima Living With Onyeka Igwe
Part 3 of Living With: 6 artists, 6 homes
Onyeka Igwe Living With Kira Freije
Part 2 of Living With: 6 artists, 6 homes
Kira Freije Living with Katie Schwab
Part 1 of Living With: 6 artists, 6 homes
Chronicler
Kirsty Hendry responds to Alice Hattrick’s new book Ill Feelings
Intimacy Creeps
Rose Higham-Stainton traces quotidian matter through three exhibitions in Edinburgh and Glasgow by Scottish artists Karla Black, Christine Borland and Gwenan Davies
She Exclaimed
Holly Pester considers exclamation marks in Second Place by Rachel Cusk and Sarah Tripp’s Guitar!
Doin’ it for the kids, the ESTATE way. 13 snapshots by Neil Cooper
‘With Jimmy Cauty a kind of absentee post-apocalyptic Pied Piper, the volcanic quake of ESTATE proves an irresistible attraction.’ Parked in Muirhouse, Edinburgh throughout June, the event occupies Easterhouse, Glasgow until end July 2021
The Coming Bad Days
Anahit Behrooz talks to Sarah Bernstein about her debut novel
Back Page: ‘Brain 2’, 2009
An encoded broadcast on Channel 21, Citizen’s Band. A script by Nathaniel Mellors
Portfolio: Florence Durante and Paul Chiappe
MAP introduces up-and-coming artists Florencia Durante and Paul Chiappe with writing by newcomer Rosamund West and assistant editor Isla Leaver-Yap
Gardenlust #4: The Persephone Complex
A monthly column by Isabella Streffen
#1 - February 2005
Collecting for the Future
Kirstie Skinner examines the Contemporary Art Society distribution scheme which is set to undergo transformation later this year
THE OCEAN WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER
Natasha Thembiso Ruwona’s critical poetics respond to (Extra)Terrestrial Currents, an online programme of artist moving image, sound and text, presented by Obsidian Coast
The White Snake
Fifth in a series of dark fairy tales by Ester Krumbachová, published in conjunction with the exhibition and film programme of the Czech artist’s work at CCA Glasgow.
Siren
Chris Watson BOOKSCAPES, 2006, £9.95 dp003: converse without leaving home Various contributors DISCPARC, DCA, 2006, £4
Mike Kelley
29 September–22 December 2007, Jablonka Gallery, Berlin
The Great Transformation—Art and Tactical Magic
7 June–7 September 2008, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
Report: Art fair power and glamour is confirmed
Isla Leaver-Yap reports on art world activity.
Portfolio: Dining on Imagination
Introducing the work of emerging artists, Portfolio focuses this issue on the paintings of Rabiya Choudhry, first seen at the Collective Gallery’s New Work Scotland Programme 2004. Choudhry has since been selected to exhibit at the Prague Biennale 2005
Spectres of the Deep
Mother Tongue review John Akomfrah’s Vertigo Sea at Talbot Rice Gallery, 21 October 2017 - 27 January 2018
I, THE OTHER, THE SPACE BETWEEN: READING IN THE DARK
Essay by Suzanne van der Lingen
Seeing Things
Contemplating the connections between belief, art and illusion, parapsychologist Peter Lamont offers a perspective on magic, psychic phenomena and the paranormal. New York artist Cai Guo-Qiang also seeks to reach the other side
Take Yourself Out of Your Usual Structure
Anna McLauchlan introduces a short September season of new writing inspired by residencies at Inshriach Bothy, Cairngorms.
Books: Ideas Leave Objects Standing
An artist book by David Bellingham, published by Platform Projects, Baltic, 2005
Jonathan Monk
8 December 2006–18 February 2007, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin / 29 November 2006 –20 January 2007, Lisson Gallery, London