A typeface narrative on the Ñ and its infected tilde
In 22 parts, one added to the story every weekday in April 2019. By Catalina Barroso-Luque.
A golden interweaving link
Anna McLauchlan visits the D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum, Dundee
I was a Humandwolf
Alec Finlay writes on Project Wolf - a performative ecological strategy in which human wolves reanimate the role of lost predators
Tone Poems
A series of vignettes on animals in cinema and moving image by Suzanne van der Lingen
Dorothea Tanning: A Canine State of Mind
Natalie Ferris on the artist’s retrospective at Tate Modern and communion with the animal world
I to I
Part two of a correspondence between Daisy Hildyard and Tom Jeffreys, on the politics of pronouns and how ‘we’ might include nonhuman life
How to talk with birds, trees, fish, shells, snakes, bulls and lions
William Kherbek reviews a group exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, 16 November 2018 - 12 May 2019
I to I
Part one of a correspondence between Daisy Hildyard and Tom Jeffreys, on the politics of pronouns and how ‘we’ might include nonhuman life
Gardenlust #5: You Never Promised Me A Rose Garden
A monthly column by Isabella Streffen
A Dream of Linnaeus’ Daughter
Phoebe Blatton on two recent exhibitions in Berlin: Navigating Polarities by Marjolijn Dijkman at Nome, and A Dream of Linnaeus’ Daughter by Katarzyna Kozyra at Żak|Branicka
The Elegance of the Octopus
Tom Jeffreys reviews Strange Foreign Bodies, a group show at The Hunterian, Glasgow, 28 September 2018 - 10 February 2019
Couldn’t we just bee?
Editorial: an animal-themed season of reviews and features
#22 - June 2010
Fiona Mackay, Morag Keil and Manuela Gernedel: 84 Paintings
Barry Schwabsky talks to Fiona Mackay, Morag Keil and Manuela Gernedel about their unique collaboration
Lilt, Twang, Tremor
Ruth Barker reviews Sarah Rose, Susannah Stark and Hanna Tuulikki at CCA, 18 November 2017 - 14 January 2018
Report: Art fair power and glamour is confirmed
Isla Leaver-Yap reports on art world activity.
Karla Black’s Abstraction
Briony Fer examines the tone and texture of the Glasgow-based artist’s work
Thank you for writing to me so often, you are revealing yourself to me in the only way you can
Laura Edbrook reflects on the reading and discussion group ‘Sick Sick Sick: The Books of Ornery Women’ co-run with Emma Balkind and presented by MAP between autumn 2013 and autumn 2014. ‘Sick Sick Sick’ was an open reading project based online and at the CCA, Glasgow and examined a radical or ‘bludgeoned’ subjectivity of female writers
Kate Davis: Could we? I am asking
John Calcutt finds the work of Kate Davis complex, subtle, powerful and bravely questioning of gender perspectives. Born in New Zeland, and now resident in Glasgow, Davis is attracting increasing international recognition
Burning Ties
Harry Weeks reviews Rasheed Araeen: A Retrospective at Baltic, Gateshead, 19 October 2018 - 27 January 2019
Tony Swain: Concrete Planes
Isla Leaver-Yap visits Tony Swain’s studio in Glasgow and finds him among stacks of yellowing newsprint reworking 20th century techniques towards uncharted landscapes
GMA A40/2/20/23 A Ford advert. Fainted notes written on it. Illegible. (c1970s)
Neil Ogg responds to the idea of ‘footnoting the archive’ in relation to his recent role as Archivist at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Remarks: Eastside Projects
Gavin Wade, curator of Eastside Projects, which opened in Birmingham end 2008, talks about collaborative work with artists.
#4 - December 2005
Review
Books: Wolfgang Tillmans truth study center
Published by Taschen, October 2005
Residency: Nick Evans
Sarah Smith talks to Nick Evans about his work at home and away
Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard, Jason Pierce
The collaborators behind Silent Sound on their Liverpool Biennial performance based around the idea of spiritualism
History of Disappearance—Live Art From New York 1975–Present
Baltic, 18 June-4 September, 2005
#16 Winter - November 2008
Review
On Knowledge Production: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art
Maria Hlavajova, Jill Winder, Binna Choi (eds.) £20 www.bak-utrecht.nl
Remarks: Tree
Tania Kovats discusses TREE, the project which won her the Natural History Museum’s Darwin Canopy Commission.
Stan Douglas
15 September 2007–6 January 2008, Staatsgalerie & Wurttembergischer Kunstverine, Stuttgart
#6 - April 2006
Commission: X-REX
Kenny Hunter’s first foray into film—the latest in the MAP commission series. Kate Cowcher introduces the work here.
‘A Feminist Chorus’ by Lucy Reynolds, curated by MAP
Glasgow International: ‘A Feminist Chorus’, one film, two sound works and a performance, spanning three venues, 5—21 April, Glasgow Women’s Library, Glasgow School of Art & 5 Blythswood Square
The Function of Objects
Steven Cairns considers the idea of containment in the spatially connected installation work of Phillip Lai
#4 - December 2005
Review
Edinburgh Art Festival and Annuale 2005
Various venues citywide during August 2005
Chapter Six
The sixth instalment of Out of Office Auto-Reply by Sarah Tripp & Simon Buckley
Circumstantial Evidence
Kirsty Hendry responds to ‘Every contact leaves a trace’ curated by Naomi Pearce, a LUX screening at Glasgow Film Theatre, 1 October