Listen To This
Neil Cooper explores a host of meditations and recent listenings on ‘the impossibility of silence’ unfolding through the past, present and uncertain future
Attention Economies
William Kherbek attends Glasgow International’s Digital Programme 23 April - 31 May 2020
Cottaging The Hedgerow: Part 2
A four part chronicle by Mathew Parkin, foraging queerness and rurality in recent artist moving image
THE TRAIN
Maria Howard recalls a train journey, a film and counterfeit memories of collective grief
ALCHEMY FILM FESTIVAL, LIVE
Alexander Storey-Gordon tuned into (and out of) the digital programme, 1-3 May 2020
LIONISING
Calum Sutherland reflects on Charlotte Prodger’s ‘SaF05’ and the lions of Venice during a trip to the Biennale in 2019
Cottaging The Hedgerow: Part 1
A four part chronicle by Mathew Parkin, foraging queerness and rurality in recent artist moving image
Different kinds of now
Anna Chapman Parker reads Funny Weather, Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing, Picador, London 2020
Why, They Call it Idlewild
Erica Scourti remotely reviews Helen Cammock’s exhibition ‘They Call It Idlewild’ at Wysing Arts Centre, affirming a vision where respecting the human need for downtime is a vital act of care.
Mardi Barrie and her transpositional quest
‘It is not women’s inferiority that has determined their historical insignificance: it is their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority.’ Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1949. Lauren Dyer Amazeen is drawn to the work of this Edinburgh artist
she didn’t paint the sea, after Joan Eardley
by Daisy Lafarge
Introduction
Susannah Thompson and Marianne Greated introduce a MAP mini series, part of their recently launched, ongoing project Women Painting: Scottish Art 1940-1980
TENANCY—May Day Parade: Clause iv
Shirking on Rented Space-Time by Nisha Ramayya
Interview: Simon Fisher Turner
This composer/musician recently performed at Tramway, Glasgow, inside a life-size recreation of Elvis Presley’s former home, Gracelands. Nominated for an Oscar (Anna Campion’s feature, Loaded), his most recent album, Lana Lara Lata, is out on Mute Records
Remarks: Lucy Skaer
Using the site of an abandoned cinema for display, the artist outlines her forthcoming project in Leeds
Books: After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art
Eleanor Heartney, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princnthal, Sue Scott www.prestel.com ISBN 978-3-7913-3732-6 £25
Chapter Seven
The seventh instalment of Out of Office Auto-Reply by Khairani Barokka
INTERSTICES
Rachael Finney reviews ‘Interstices’ by Terre Thaemlitz at Auto Italia, 3 October - 3 December
#28 - May 2013
In the Shadow of the Hand : Object 6b
‘The Idea’ Sarah Forrest responds in writing to Virginia Hutchison. Their collaboration ‘In the Shadow of the Hand’ continues on MAP
Part 5: ‘Matter as a Hope of Finding Some Answers.’ BULGARIA
Eastern European countries exhibiting at the Venice Biennale 2019 were interviewed by Manca Bajec and Isobel Wohl. Responses here by curator Vera Mlechevska and artists Lazar Lyutakov and Rada Boukova.
Report: Can Video Thrive as a Marginal Activity?
Isla Leaver-Yap reports on the state of video art in Scotland
Constant Companion
Philippa Snow reviews Seasonal Associate, Heike Geissler’s account of taking on seasonal work at Amazon
Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub
13 November–20 December, 2009, Extra City, Antwerp
Muscles of Joy—No-One’s Little Girls Shouting Out Loud
Neil Cooper looks at a year in the life of Glasgow-based band, Muscles of Joy
Zidane: a 21st Century Portrait
CANNES FILM FESTIVAL WORLD PREMIERE 23 APR EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 19/20 AUG, 2006, Cannes
Cyprien Gaillard: Recycling the Ruins
Cyprien Gaillard recently witnessed the destruction of high rise buildings in Glasgow: acute observations of this are the subject of his new work. Joanna Fiduccia talks to him about his practice and the death and decay of modernism in urban architecture
Living Together
23 January–3 May, Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturunea, Vitoria
#37 - February 2016
A conglomerate of voices rise up like hidden steam.
Stephanie Mann presents a footnote to Glasgow Sculpture Studios’ exhibition, ‘The transparent tortoiseshell and the un-ripe umbrella’ (23 January – 05 March 2016).
The you in us
Kylie Gilchrist reviews Lydia Ourahmane’s solo exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery, London, 26 January - 25 March
What moves you?
Rebecca O’Dwyer reports on Transmediale, Berlin, 31 Jan - 3 Feb
Back Page: ‘Brain 2’, 2009
An encoded broadcast on Channel 21, Citizen’s Band. A script by Nathaniel Mellors
Martin Soto Climent: CHAPTER ONE
Dominic Paterson investigates the work of Mexican artist Martin Soto Climent as he begins a year-long international project
Jordan Wolfson: In Search of the Whale
Hans Ulrich Obrist and Jordan Wolfson take a taxi to the Museum of Natural History, New York, to visit the whale. Time, travel, and time-travel come into their sights
OH MY GOD, I DIDN’T SEE YOU
Thinking about air, fire, smoke, volcanoes and immateriality with The Enquiry
Commission: Ruth Ewan
A set of four postcards by Ruth Ewan have been commissioned for this issue of MAP
#16 Winter - November 2008
Remarks: Katy Dove
Katy Dove discusses her two year residency at Platform, Glasgow, and how working with community groups has reflected on her practice.
Kelly Nipper: Composing Movements
Joanna Fiduccia explores a practice that reconnects movement with myth
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.
Remarks: Nottingham Central
Alex Farquharson, curator of the new Nottingham Contemporary, talks about the highlights of the year ahead and beyond
Louise Bourgeois
10 October 2007–20 January 2008, Tate Modern, London