TENANCY
‘What is a tenancy agreement?’ MAP’s guest commissioning editor Helen Charman begins a new project which invites writers and artists to join her investigation into the nature of renting. Pieces will be published on the 1st of every month for 12 months, beginning here, on April Fool’s day.
Text for a willow
A willow was planted by the River Deveron, in the centre of a solid wood circular bench, near Huntly Aberdeenshire, 31 January 2020. Alice Bain reports from a distance
MOTHER-SHIP
Rose Higham-Stainton attends the launch of MOTHER by Studio Morison at Wicken Fen 29th February 2020
STAY AT HOME MOVIES
Herb Shellenberger guides us through a selection of moving-image works newly available for remote viewing
A Maggot - For Freda
Kirsty Hendry considers ‘the flimsy layer that separates one body from another’, as we re-publish her 2018 essay
Ambiguous Heterotopias
James Bell reviews Seized by the Left Hand at Dundee Contemporary Arts
A Gnostic Romance
Jessica Ramm reviews Alex Impey –Gnostic Cautery at The Hunterian, Glasgow 16th November 2019 – 23rd February 2020
Improviser’s Rehearsal
Gwenan Davies reviews In Emotia, by France-Lise McGurn in T5 at Tramway
Our World - The World to Come
‘Wayward machines and knotted weeds fill the empty space, move with it, sound across its borders.’ Esther Draycott visits a show at 16 Nicholson Street, Glasgow January 2020
Networks and Their Discontents
William Kherbek visits The Eternal Network, the key group exhibition in transmediale 2020 festival—End to End, HKW, Berlin
32, 32
Good Press, Lunchtime and Sunday’s document close proximity and collaboration at 32 St Andrew’s Street, Glasgow
A possible space for the life of a girl
Nell Osborne considers Lisa Robertson’s debut novel The Baudelaire Fractal
you, there, are you there? | MAP at Glasgow Film Festival 2020
Event over. A programme of short film, artist moving image and performance curated by Rosie Roberts and including work by Rhea Storr, Jessica Higgins, Alex Culshaw and Alison Scott. Wednesday, 4 March, 6pm. CCA Cinema
Hashtag: No More Boring Art
Artist and poet Annie Runkel remembers John Baldessari and teases the life out of boredom
She says, my body contains blood baths. How will you care for it?
A response by Kiah Endelman Music to Louise Ahl’s Hevi Metle, a durational performance of six hours, six minutes and six seconds which draws on a feminist approach to alchemy. Made in collaboration with Australian choreographer Angela Goh, Glasgow-based artist Michelle Hannah and including an integrated touch tour by Edinburgh-based Juliana Capes, the work was first seen at Tramway, Glasgow and will be re-presented on 12 February 2020 at Baltic.
Florida
Artist Nicola Murray found herself bamboozled in Florida at the end of last year.
12 Hour Non-State Parade
Angeliki Roussou attended the Cooper Gallery’s marathon symposium in Dundee at the end of last year and found it ‘…surgically curated, perfectly executed, homely and inclusive’. Read more of her report here
Ulla von Brandenburg
18 January–24 February 2008, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
‘Sick Sick Sick’ : The Books of Ornery Women
A reading project examining a radical or ‘bludgeoned’ subjectivity of female writers
Loris Gréaud: On and Off
Christophe Gallois interviews Loris Gréaud, an artist who manipulates and expands the art of exhibition-making. Following the showing of Cellar Door at the Palais de Tokyo, the ICA hosts the second version of the exhibition which brings together opera, architecture and black champagne
A SHELL, A HOUSE, A HOME, A FACE, A FAÇADE, A FRONTISPIECE
Hussein Mitha responds to COCO!NUTS! by Rabiya Choudhry at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, 15 September - 20 October
Others got wings for flying, 10 posters by Megan Rooney
A narrative group of posters designed to populate Glasgow’s city centre. Part of the MAP Commission 2017.
Inner Other
Henry Broome visits ‘Inner Other’, a group show at Gossamer Fog, London, 29 July - 25 August
Extreme times call for extreme heroines
Victoria Horne visits Keepin’ It Clean by Betye Saar at New-York Historical Society, 2 November 2018 - 27 May 2019
#24 - November 2010
In Production: Christine Borland
Dominic Paterson finds the artist in production at Glasgow Sculpture Studios
#36 - November 2015
‘Whose Gaelic is it anyway?’ Identity and perception
By Glasgow-based musician, Cassie Ezeji
The particular in general
Anna McLauchlan preserves Alex Impey’s ←Term.←Lam.←, the second commission in Collective’s Satellites programme
Green Dot
Glasgow-based artist Shauna McMullan travelled across countries to exhibit in ‘Crossovers’, part of Japan’s 2005 Aichi Expo. Mapped by a big green dot, the resulting work ‘Via’, has its first UK showing in MAP
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Poets Edwin Morgan and Alan Spence celebrate the 80th birthday of Ian Hamilton Finlay, artist, poet and gardener. Introduction by Ken Cockburn
The skin is an organ
Sam Playford-Greenwell on ECZEMA!, written and directed by Maria Fusco as part of The National Theatre of Wales’ NHS70 Festival
Focus: Edinburgh Art Festival
29 July–various dates from end September 2010, various venues