An Announcement from MAP magazine
After a run of nearly 20 years, MAP magazine is now closed to pitches and commissions. It has been both a privilege and pleasure to have worked with so many wonderful contributors, editors and organisations across Scotland and beyond, throughout the life of this publishing project.
Ambiguous Heterotopias
James Bell reviews Seized by the Left Hand at Dundee Contemporary Arts
Spiritual
Appendix 3 of Good on Paper’s second invitation to join a workshop on Performance & Energy
Residency: Simon Fujiwara
Oliver Basciano meets Simon Fujiwara to discuss his work and recent residency in LA
Sculpture Haven
Irene Kernan, director of Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop announces a big step forward for the organisation
A Year of Carte Blanche & Other Chimeras
Upreference (from the urn-taciturn)
Project Editor Daniela Cascella responds to last month’s contribution by Jessica Sequeira
Aernout Mik: Deadlock
Barry Schwabsky examines the truths behind the video work of renowned Netherlands artist Aernout Mik and wonders just how close we all are to being extras in one of his videos
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
Anna Maria Maiolino
Maria Howard responds to this extraordinary Brazilian artist’s retrospective, Making Love Revolutionary, at the Whitechapel Gallery, London until 12 January 2020
Charles Avery: Mythologies
Charles Avery’s entire practice is built on the creation of a new world, an island place where cults and gulls and islanders all play their part. Anthony Spira explores its boundaries
Commission: Alasdair Gray
To commemorate the life of Alasdair Gray, we also republish his MAP commission. “As he prepares for his Glasgow International solo exhibition at Sorcha Dallas, artist and celebrated author of Lanark, Alasdair Gray publishes for the first time his Prologue to The Tragedy of Faust” MAP, Spring Issue, 2008
#37 - January 2016
edits-while-u-wait
57 texts from ‘edits-while-u-wait’: the free editing service for artists’ writings aimed at exploring the role of the editor in contemporary art. Introduction by Claire Walsh
#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.
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?
CROSS BLOCK SPLIT
Jenny Brownrigg reflects on the career of artist Mary Redmond and her installation at Platform, Glasgow for the national exhibition series, GENERATION 25
Cowrie Shells on Rope
Cheryl McGregor reflects on the work of Saoirse Amira Anis recently showing at DCA, Dundee
#24 - November 2010
Review
The Portable John Latham
Edited by Antony Hudek and Athanasios Velios, Occasional Papers in association with Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2010, £12.50, ISBN 978-0-9562605-5-0
#24 - November 2010
Review
Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965–1980
11 September–28 November, University of Toronto Art Galleries
Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener
David Toop, Continuum, 2010, £17.99, ISBN: 978-1441149725
Books: The Garden of Cosmic Speculation
By Charles Jencks, published by Frances Lincoln, March 2005
Music: 17
Bill Drummond www.beautiful-books.co.uk ISBN 9781905636266
It is this it is this, it is this
A Portrait of Margaret Tait. Transcript of ‘It is this it is this, it is this’, a performative video-essay by Laura Edbrook & Sarah Forrest