The Residency: Part 3
James N. Hutchinson’s story concludes. ‘Ultimately, the narratives represented [here] were filtered as a means to address ideas around democracy.’
The Residency: Part 2
James N. Hutchinson’s narrative continues. ‘I stand for a moment and glance around. I can’t see a car. Where could the third child be?’
The Residency: Part 1
James N. Hutchinson’s three-part narrative is situated in and around Inshriach Bothy. ‘What on Earth?… The whippet has no answer.’
Take Yourself Out of Your Usual Structure
Anna McLauchlan introduces a short September season of new writing inspired by residencies at Inshriach Bothy, Cairngorms.
Like an angel passing through my room
An evening with Jude Browning and Anne-Marie Copestake. CCA Glasgow, Tuesday 24 September, 6.30pm. Free but ticketed
Gardenlust #10: The Slug Murderers
A monthly column by Isabella Streffen
Helen McCrorie in conversation with Emmie McLuskey
‘Any object can be a toy to a young child. They don’t see boundaries in what you can play with and what you can’t… Play is serious work.’ McCrorie’s new film brings these facts into exquisite focus. Screening at Collective until 6 Oct 2019.
Eternity Knocker, as discussed…
Calum Sutherland talks to Andrew Black about Eternity Knocker. Black’s film is showing at CCA Intermedia Fri 9 Aug — Sun 1 Sep, 2019
‘Look at your shoes.’
Peter Amoore will travel around Edinburgh in search of artists’ work.
Cindy, Hanna and Grayson
Neil Cooper reviews three exhibitions in the Edinburgh Art Festival. Cindy Sherman: Early Works, 1975-80, Stills until 6 October. Hanna Tuulikki: Deer Dancer, Edinburgh Printmakers until 5 October. Grayson Perry: Julie Cope’s Grand Tour, Dovecot Studios until 2 November
Cut and Paste: 400 Years of Collage
National Galleries of Scotland, Modern Two. Until 27 Oct 2019. Review by Victoria Horne
Part 15: ‘Matter as a Hope of Finding Some Answers’ ALBANIA
‘How can local and other contexts be connected in a relevant way, without becoming simply—and sadly—“global?”’? Curator Alicia Knock ends our 15 part series on Eastern European countries’ participation at the Venice Biennale 2019.
Part 14: ‘Matter as a Hope of Finding Some Answers’ NORTH MACEDONIA
‘Through this act of re-examining the past, I refer to the theories of Marxism and of leftist ideology, discussing those issues openly.’ Artist Nada Prlja responds.
Part 13: ‘Matter as a Hope of Finding Some Answers’ KOSOVO
Response from artist Alban Muja. ‘A while ago, I tried to talk to my father about his experience in prison, if I can even call the place he was held a prison, since it was more like a concentration camp…’
Part 12: ‘Matter as a Hope of Finding Some Answers’ SERBIA
‘I am a European in a Brexit country, who curated a pavilion of a nation that is in the process of entering the EU but is not yet part of it.’ Response from curator Nicoletta Lambertucci continues our 15 part series.
Part 11: ‘Matter as a Hope of Finding Some Answers’ BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Artist Danica Dakić: ‘I focus on the city of Zenica, once the symbol of socialist progress, which now faces extreme air pollution and high rates of unemployment.’ Manca Bajec and Isobel Wohl pose their questions.
MAP Screen | Reading in the Dark
Images from Glasgow Film Festival event curated by Suzanne van der Lingen.
Edward Summerton: Birds of the Devil
Is it a bird? Is it a book? Colin Martin, aka the Lonely Piper, takes flight with fellow Dundee-based artist, Edward Summerton, on the subject of both. Inspired by Ladybird illustration, Summerton’s book of feathered friends invites nostalgia, mild terror and connections with flu and civilisation. Read on…
FOCUS: 52nd Venice Biennale—Reflections
10 June–21 November 2007, Venice
#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
Voicing the Silences
Essay by Sarah Neely just published in A Feminist Chorus, an 80 page risograph printed bookwork. Purchase from info@mapmagazine.
PULPO MOTORINO:
pounding the pages of Laure Prouvost’s Legsicon (Book Works 2019) with Rosie Roberts
AFTERWORD
Louise Briggs, curator of ‘The transparent tortoiseshell and the un-ripe umbrella’, provides an intimate insight into the thought process behind the show which takes place at Glasgow Sculpture Studios 23 January - 5 March 2016 and includes work by Eva Berendes, Stephanie Mann, Rallou Panagiotou, Vanessa Safavi and Samara Scott
Emerging: Ben Jones
New York comic artist takes zine culture to a deadpan high in a new body of icon paintings
Emerging: Cara Tolmie
Will Holder examines the complex practice of this London-based artist
back in at the deep end
Emma Balkind reflects on SINK by Janice Kerbel, commissioned by The Common Guild and performed at The Western Baths Club, Glasgow
Learning from Athens
Grace Higgins Brown reviews documenta 14, Athens, 8 April - 16 July
Unmasterable: an interview with James Bridle
William Kherbek interviews the artist, journalist, technologist and author of New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
By Likeness
Lila Matsumoto’s ekphrastic response to ‘Artificial Sensibility’ by It’s Our Playground at Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham, 22 September - 27 October
Others got wings for flying
MAP commission 2017 by Megan Rooney, curated by Louise Briggs
Books: Lost in Space
By Andrew Dodds and published by Book Works Chap Series, 2006
Langlands & Bell
25 October–13 December, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
Part 8: ‘Matter as a Hope of Finding Some Answers.’ ESTONIA
‘Especially in our turbulent political context, being more together, supporting each other, and letting others’ voices complement one another seems more important than ever.’ Director Maria Arusoo, Center for Contemporary Arts, Tallinn.
Notes on Contemporary Art and Anthropology
Part 1: Magic, Value, Gifts and Scams. An essay by Angela McClanahan
Stephen Sutcliffe: Come to the Edge
Manipulating original broadcast material from his personal archive, Stephen Sutcliffe creates ‘surfaces which become the site of much-contested truth’. Michelle Cotton investigates these subtle ‘video collages’
Give Up Art
Rebecca O’Dwyer on Maria Fusco’s ‘exciting alongsidedness’ Give Up Art (2018), collected critical writings from 2002-2017, published by New Documents
Books: Kara Walker: My Compliment, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love
Edited by Michelle Piranio www.Hatjecantze.com ISBN 978-3-7757-1932-239
Spectres of the Deep
Mother Tongue review John Akomfrah’s Vertigo Sea at Talbot Rice Gallery, 21 October 2017 - 27 January 2018
Stan Douglas
15 September 2007–6 January 2008, Staatsgalerie & Wurttembergischer Kunstverine, Stuttgart
#2 - May 2005
Commission: Walk the Walk Draw the Draw
Romanian artist Dan Perjovschi responds to the word ‘map’ with a clear outline of his world. The MAP Commission publishes new work by an artist each issue
Studio: Ogilvie and Callender
Ruth Hedges and Luke Watson visit the giant studio of Elizabeth Ogilvie and Bob Callender, artists who live by the sea