Jude Browning talks to Anne-Marie Copestake in bed
A video conversation inspired by Copestake’s series of interviews between artists and musicians, Trigger Tonic (1999-2004).
Cannibal O
An intimate evening of feminist cannibalism hosted by Catalina Barroso-Luque around a circular dining table and premiered at Intermedia Gallery, CCA, Glasgow on 17 April 2019. Twenty eight images by Isobel Lutz-Smith tell the story.
Spaces, Places
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, 2-6 May, 2019. Review by Ben Nicholson
‘Persepolis Now?’
A Utopian Stage at SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin. Curated by Vali Mahlouji | Archeology of the Final Decade. Review by Sumugan Sivansan
New Waves: Mohamed Melehi and the Casablanca Art School
The Mosaic Rooms 12/04/19–22/06/19. Review by Kylie Gilchrist
Alberta Whittle and Emilio Bianchic
Curators Diego Chocano and Ellie Dobbs interview the two artists brought together in Useless, Pig Rock Bothy, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 13-21 April
It Bites Back
Gabriella Beckhurst reviews the viral solo show by Pedro Neves Marques at Gasworks, London, 11 Apr-16 June 2019
We Nurture
Gordon Douglas participates in Shona MacNaughton’s new performance on Calton Hill
A typeface narrative on the Ñ and its infected tilde
In 22 parts, one episode was added to the story every weekday throughout April 2019. This narrative by Catalina Barroso-Luque has now concluded and can be read in full.
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
MAP Screen | Dancing With Myself
Debi Banerjee’s programme for MAP Screen concludes with ‘The Animated’ by Darren Banks
Gardenlust #1: The Hellmouth
On the art of garden renovation: a new monthly column by Isabella Streffen
The Elegance of the Octopus
Tom Jeffreys reviews Strange Foreign Bodies, a group show at The Hunterian, Glasgow, 28 September 2018 - 10 February 2019
Dub Rabbie: Graham Fagen
Neil Cooper mixes with Glasgow artist Graham Fagen, reggae king Adrian Sherwood and Ayrshire bard Robert Burns
8fold
Ruth Höflich discusses her new occasional small press for limited editions and artists’ projects
The Law of Motivation and Effort
Artist Tobias Sternberg wrestles with the temptations of supply and demand in today’s competitive contemporary art market
#29 - August 2013
In the Shadow of the Hand : Object 7b
A witness statement in the form of a text, produced in response to Object 6b ‘The Idea’. A collaborative project by Sarah Forrest and Virginia Hutchison
Chapter Ten
The tenth and final instalment of Out of Office Auto-Reply by Sophie Collins
Books: Lost in Space
By Andrew Dodds and published by Book Works Chap Series, 2006
Music: EXTRACT: Portraits Of Sound Artists
www.nonvisualobjects.com £21
Books: Utopia Deferred: Writings from Utopie ( 1967-1978)
Jean Baudrillard www.semiotexte.com ISBN 978-1-58435-033-0 £11.95
Studio: Alison Watt
Writer Diana Hope travels with photographer Luke Watson to the National Gallery in London to find painter Alison Watt in a studio under that hallowed roof
#31 - April 2014
MAP Reading Group
‘Sick Sick Sick’ : The Books of Ornery Women
A reading project examining a radical or ‘bludgeoned’ subjectivity of female writers | Session Five, Travis Jeppeson, The Suiciders, CCA Clubroom, Thursday 29 May, 6.30pm
Artists’ Magazines by Gwen Allen
The MIT Press, £25.95, ISBN 978-0-262-01519-6
Books: With the Grain, An Appreciation of Tim Stead
Edited by Giles Sutherland, published by Berlinn, 2005
Residency: Nick Evans
Sarah Smith talks to Nick Evans about his work at home and away
…where the art is: the interwoven spaces of Radiophrenia…
Anna McLauchlan channels ‘Radiophrenia’, a fortnight of live broadcast sound and transmission arts
Conversations
27 September–16 November, 2008, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
Music: Paul Rooney
31 May–12 July 2008, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
How to Live Together
7 October–17 December 2006, 27th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil
Songs in the Key of Life
Music is the escape, the anger, the boredom, the sadness, the sex, the affirmation, the madness and sense that takes us out of the daily grind. Neil Cooper celebrates the whole beautiful, blurred shebang as it morphs into art in the exhibition ‘Pass the Time of Day’
#1 - February 2005
Mexican Lights
Moira Jeffrey travels to Monterrey and discovers bright lights at Sodium and Asphalt, a major showing of 12 British artists in Mexico
#29 - August 2013
In the Shadow of the Hand : Object 7a
A witness statement in the form of a text and image, produced in response to Object 6a ‘Woman Crawling On Hands And Knees’. A collaborative project by Sarah Forrest and Virginia Hutchison
#28 - April 2013
In the Shadow of the Hand : Object 5b
‘Witness Statement’ A collaborative project by Sarah Forrest and Virginia Hutchison
Conflict Materials
Tom White reviews Conflict Minerals: Lise Autogena & Joshua Portway / Nabil Ahmed, at Arts Catalyst Centre for Art, Science and Technology, 24 March-22 April, 2017
#31 - February 2014
Miranda Blennerhassett, Two Shapes Three Colours
MAP introduces the Dublin artist’s new stop motion animation