A Year of Carte Blanche & Other Chimeras
Editorial
Our new MAP commissioning editor, Daniela Cascella, introduces the series A Year of Carte Blanche and Other Chimeras. Across twelve months she will bring together new work by writers, philosophers, artists and musicians, punctuated by editorial responses in the form of afterwords. In addition, MAP will continue to publish reviews and other texts
Being Beside Oneself, 3
The final selection of writing by Lydia Davies
Being Beside Oneself, 2
Part 2 of a selection of writing by Lydia Davies
Being Beside Oneself, 1
Writing by Lydia Davies brings together a selection of short stories and segments from an eponymous essay that explores relational and narrative constructions of self through the transformative potential of souvenirs, grief and voice. Lydia is the recipient of this year’s John Calcutt Prize for Critical Writing, presented by The Glasgow School of Art in collaboration with MAP.
Rooms are shells, they are skins
Rose Higham-Stainton reviews two Munich exhibitions that cut deep imprints into institutional pasts
‘Non-Negotiable Condition’
Sarah Messerschmidt reviews Metabolic Rift at Berlin Atonal
Art work
James Bell reviews Life Support: Forms of Care in Art and Activism at the Glasgow Women’s Library
Private Sectors
Jamie Limond reviews Caroline Walker: Windows at KM21, The Hague
Little Palestine
Elhum Shakerifar reflects on Abdallah Al-Khatib’s poetry and film
The intimate boundaries of Istanbul
Helen Mackreath explores the city through three films
Hobbyhorses: On Maggie Nelson
Christopher Law considers On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint (2021)
Tax the Rich
Caitlin Merrett King visits Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 2021 and considers the economics at play in the work of Ane Hjort Guttu, Rehana Zaman and Jordan Lord
Katie Schwab Living With Nicole Morris
Part 6 of Living With: 6 artists, 6 homes
Nicole Morris Living With Alicia Reyes McNamara
Part 5 of Living With: 6 artists, 6 homes
Tomorrow is a Season: Search-Play-See
The third instalment of a series of ‘magical correspondences’ with MAP’s archive by Holly Pester
Emerging: Laura Aldridge
Francis McKee looks at the work of Laura Aldridge
#10 - June 2007
Emerging: Catherine Street
Ruth Beal talks to an artist who offers ‘a glimpse through a velvet curtain’
Lucy Skaer: Drawing Close
Glasgow-based artist Lucy Skaer is interested in fictions and histories. Highly articulate in the medium of drawing, she also makes films and installation and installations with charged imagination. Here, she is in conversation with Isla Leaver-Yap
The Way In
Luke Fowler’s films exist on the margins of documentary. Martin Herbert examines the artist’s archive
Portfolio: Emerging artists from RSA exhibition
Alice Bain and Isla Leaver-Yap scanned the Royal Scottish Academy exhibition of student work in March and selected four new talents to celebrate the forthcoming summer degree shows
FOCUS: 52nd Venice Biennale—Reflections
10 June–21 November 2007, Venice
Sean Edwards and The Maelfa
Artist Sean Edwards reflects on The Maelfa, a shopping centre on the outskirts of Cardiff and focus of Edwards’ new exhbiition. The artist considers the building in relation to its historical and social functions as well as its current decline as a ‘ruin in reverse’
Monika Sosnowska
Using unexpected perspectives, this Polish artist alters spaces with her sometimes monumental sculpture. Moira Jeffrey, who has long been interested in her work, talks to here post ‘1:1’
Crone Music
Philomena Epps reviews Beatrice Gibson at Camden Arts Centre, London, 18 January - 31 March
Chapter Three
The third instalment of Out of Office Auto-Reply by Eley Williams
In Place of Hate
Jessica Ramm considers the results of Edmund Clark’s three-year residency at HMP Grendon, the UK’s only therapeutic prison. Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 6 December 2017 - 11 March 2018
The International Necronautical Society (INS) 17 January
17 January, Tate Britain, London
#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
I to I
Part two of a correspondence between Daisy Hildyard and Tom Jeffreys, on the politics of pronouns and how ‘we’ might include nonhuman life
‘A Feminist Chorus’ voices at The Glasgow School of Art
The sound work installed in the Hen Run during Glasgow International 2014 is now online
Lothar Hempel
30 May–21 June 2008, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
Q&A: Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan
Mona Casey interviews Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan
‘Persepolis Now?’
A Utopian Stage at SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin. Curated by Vali Mahlouji | Archeology of the Final Decade. Review by Sumugan Sivansan
Allan Sekula
12 December 2009–28 February 2010, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
#24 - November 2010
Emerging: Audrey Reynolds
Gemma Sharpe probes the mixing of incidental and appropriated materials in Audrey Reynolds’ paintings and installations
A PLACE FOR 4 WOMEN, #4 COLD MOON
The final part of a four part poetic response by Valerie Norris to ‘The Bitter Cup’ by Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan
Rosalind Nashashibi: Bachelor Machines
Part 1, Scotland and Venice, 10 June–2 November 2007, Palazzo Zenobio, Venice Part 2, Art Statements, 4–8 June 2007, Art Basel
#4 - December 2005
Review
Roderick Buchanan
Camden Arts Centre, London 23 September-13 November, 2005
Notes from Venice
Claire Walsh offers notes from the Venice Biennale ‘Viva Arte Viva’ 13 May - 26 November
Emerging: Katarina Zdjelar
Aoife Rosenmeyer explores the Serbian artist’s videos and their relationship to the language of the past