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.
Vessels of hope
A response by Isabel Pérez-Ramos to the 2023 Portobello-based project Vessel. This is one of three texts commissioned by organisers Art Walk Projects and published by MAP
Fragments
A response to Vessel by Alycia Pirmohamed. This text, one of a trio published on MAP this month, was commissioned by Portobello-based Art Walk Projects as part of its 2023 Vessel programme
#70 - April 2024
Vessel on MAP
A Stitch in Time Saves Sunshine
A response by Maria Sledmere to the work of Jonathan Baxter, Tonya McMullan and Claudia Zeiske, all participants of the 2023 Art Walk Projects programme Vessel. This artist text is one of three AWP commissions to be published this month in collaboration with MAP
Gintaras Didžiapetris
Gintaras Didžiapetris in collaboration with Resonance 104.4fm
Journey Six: Glasgow and Port Glasgow
Having clocked up five journeys for MAP, taking him from London to Lumsden, Duncan McLaren boards the train once again to test the values of contemporary art in a pub, a gallery in a flat, a town hall and an annual report
INTERSTICES
Rachael Finney reviews ‘Interstices’ by Terre Thaemlitz at Auto Italia, 3 October - 3 December
#30 - November 2013
MAP Screen | The Anthropology Effect
For the second installment of MAP Screen, Karen Cunningham selects three works—two clips from vintage television documentaries presented by David Attenborough and John Grierson and a video piece by Glasgow-based artist David Sherry
Back Page: Kim Gordon
Kim Gordon, sound artist and founder member of Sonic Youth, on art and music
Back Page: ‘Brain 2’, 2009
An encoded broadcast on Channel 21, Citizen’s Band. A script by Nathaniel Mellors
Scorpio’s Garden
12 October–15 November, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin
II. Maps
Part of a trio of texts that unravel real and imagined oceanic journeys in South Africa, Scotland and Barbados. By Harvey Dimond
Moving Images from the Attic Archive
19 March–18 April, 2010, Cooper Gallery, Dundee
Ian Hamilton Finlay
In these extracts from his eulogy read at Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh, Alec Finlay remembers his father, the artist, poet, philosopher and gardener Ian Hamilton Finlay
#4 - December 2005
Review
James Lumsden and Andrew MacKenzie
Sarah Myerscough, London 30 September-29 October 2005
Remarks: Exhibition Histories
Lucy Steeds, researcher and editor at Afterall, introduces their forthcoming book project
#5 - January 2006
Commission: Clara Ursitti
Clara Ursitti is an artist based Glasgow who has recently exhibited at Tramway, Glasgow and Galleri 54, Gothenburg, Sweden. She has an upcoming exhibition at CB Studios, New York. (This entry will be completed online by July 2016).
The Weight of History
Victoria Horne considers ‘Weight’, a video work by Kate Davis. Essay published as part of ‘Footnoting the Archive: Endnotes’
CAST by Jamie Donald
A response to Sharon Hayes’ ‘Fingernails on a blackboard: Bella’ which was screened at the launch of the year long GIVE BIRTH TO ME TOMORROW—Artist Moving Image Festival 2021
Douglas Gordon
2 November 2006–14 January 2007, Royal Scottish Academy Building, Edinburgh
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
The Devil Makes Work
Fiona Jardine examines the relationship between art and the everyday world of work Nine Trades of Dundee, 1 July–31 October
Books: Art Power
Boris Groys mitpress.mit.edu ISBN 978-0-262-07292-2
Chronicler
Kirsty Hendry responds to Alice Hattrick’s new book Ill Feelings
To Compose
Appendix 3 of Good on Paper’s first invitation to readers to join the Performance & Language workshop
STRINGS RESUME DANCING
Alice Hill-Woods finds a collaborative refrain resonating through the Institut français d’Écosse, Edinburgh
Cinema of resistance
Anahit Behrooz reviews Mohammad Rasoulof’s ‘There is No Evil’ at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival
Commission: Art After Love’s Philosophy
From 28 June to 9 July 2005, David Michael Clarke cycled the 1124 km from rue d’Angleterre (Nantes) to La Promenade des Anglais (Nice). He used the voyage to collect images, thoughts and texts for this new work.
Hans Ulrich Obrist interviews Emily Wardill
Curator Hans Ulrich Obrist talks to Emily Wardill about her enigmatic film work
theanyspacewhatever
24 October 2008–7 January 2009, Guggenheim Museum, New York