Parallel Play
Jenny Wu reviews Ligia Lewis’s exhibition study now steady at the Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA), New York
‘Only the mineral remains’
A commentary by writer, researcher and activist Keir Milburn in response to Andrew Black’s Margaret Tait Commission film, ‘On Clogger Lane’
You know it’s not the same as it was:
Caitlin Merrett King attends The Promise of Pleasure, the closing event for Good Bad Books?, a series of workshops and talks organised by Naomi Pearce and Anna Bunting-Branch and held at the Barbican in August/September 2023
‘As if writing were not sleeping’
Hilary White reviews Marie Darrieussecq’s Sleepless
Public Library
Jacob Hoffman on a new programme of events in a community space hosted by The Dissenter for Space Studies, Edinburgh
MAP x EAF
Guest editor Rosie Roberts introduces her five commissioned responses to Edinburgh Art Festival, 2023
WHAT A FEELING! ACT I
Saoirse Amira Anis responds to Christian Noelle Charles’ WHAT A FEELING! Part I, at Edinburgh Printmakers. This is one of a series on the Edinburgh Art Festival 2023, commissioned for MAP by Rosie Roberts
Calvin & Dorothy Towers
Calvin Z Laing responds to Sean Burns’ work Dorothy Towers as part of an Edinburgh Art Festival 2023 series, commissioned by Rosie Roberts
Care with Composition
MAP X EAF guest editor Rosie Roberts, writes to Markéta Luskačová regarding her 2023 exhibition at Stills, Edinburgh
Park Life
Caitlin Merrett King documents Jupiter Rising X EAF Party as part of a series of responses to Edinburgh Art Festival 2023, commissioned by Rosie Roberts for MAP
Poems as Portals
Phil Crockett Thomas responds to Nat Raha: epistolary (on carceral islands). Part of Rosie Roberts’ Edinburgh Art Festival 2023 series
Extended to Attract and Repel
Eilidh Akilade finds much to weigh up on her tour of the Edinburgh sewage works with artist Tonya McMullan. The drawing tour was part of Art Walk Porty Festival’s Extended Programme and curated project Vessel
Repeat Patterns
New work by Helen de Main & Mandy McIntosh at the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow. Review by Catherine Spencer
Take a Walk
‘A visit to Art Walk Porty, across the two hottest days of the year, feels like every artwork is looking over its shoulder to somewhere else along the coastline, fragments from a whole that is variably very close or out in the distance, like the tide or a toilet flush.’ Timothea Armour puts on her sunscreen.
Vessel
Founder and curator of Art Walk Projects, Rosy Naylor introduces this year’s theme, exploring questions of resilience, care and adaptability in the face of global climate questions. This also marks the continuation of an ongoing editorial partnership with MAP
#13 Spring - March 2008
Elena Filipovic and Adam Szymczyk: Q + A
Steven Cairns talks to 5th berlin biennial (bb5) curators Elena Filipovic and Adam Szymczyk about the city, the biennial concept and the philosophies and ideas around this edition
Back Page: ‘Brain 2’, 2009
An encoded broadcast on Channel 21, Citizen’s Band. A script by Nathaniel Mellors
#28 - May 2013
In the Shadow of the Hand : Object 6a
‘Woman Crawling On Hands And Knees’ Virginia Hutchison responds to Sarah Forrest in the sixth segment of their project ‘In the Shadow of the Hand’. The collaboration can be witnessed on MAP as it unfolds
Books: High Noon
Monograph of the work of Simon Patterson, published by the Fruitmarket and IKON, 2005
Emerging: Alan Stanners
Darren Rhymes finds the work of this young Glasgow-based painter full of surreal intentions and growing towards abstract confidence
Plumes of salted air
A poem by Joanne Matthews to accompany their new film ‘at first, and then’
They lay on the floor like starfish
Ben Nicholson looks into Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival 2021, Thu 29 Apr-Mon 3 May
‘Sick Sick Sick’ : The Books of Ornery Women
A reading project examining a radical or ‘bludgeoned’ subjectivity of women writers | Session One
Marcel Dzama: Tree With Roots
IKON GALLERY, BIRMINGHAM 24 MAY–16 JUL; CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, GLASGOW, 5 AUG–16 SEP, 2006
Gerhard Richter: Radical Senses
One of contemporary art’s most revered artists, a seminal and inspirational figure for many of his own and younger generations, Gerhard Richter makes paintings with an instinct that is as visually keen as it is intellectually demanding. Keith Hartley looks back at early days in Düsseldorf, in the light of his abstract period and more recent work
#26 - November 2012
Not a Lighthouse
“She thought about deliberately reflecting a mistake, and what form this new mistake would take, and what this new mistake would mean” by Rebecca Wilcox
Books: Saint Etienne and Ry Cooder
Neil Cooper reviews two volumes—Saint Etienne, Tales From Turnpike House published by Sanctuary and Ry Cooder by Chavez Ravine published by Nonesuch/Perro Verde
AMENABLE ARCHIVE
Edinburgh Art Festival: Calum Sutherland considers The Green Man by Lucy Skaer and others at Talbot Rice Gallery, 26 July - 6 October
#34 - March 2015
Lover of Rock by Joanna Peace
Text developed as part of a MAP writers’ residency supported by Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland.
Notes from Venice
Claire Walsh offers notes from the Venice Biennale ‘Viva Arte Viva’ 13 May - 26 November
A Year of Carte Blanche & Other Chimeras
Rhythm: the Subtle Noise of Prose, that Road of Many Songs
Project editor Daniela Cascella writes after last month’s commissions by Ella Finer & James Wilkes and Dan Beachy-Quick & Kylan Rice
Off the Map: Duncan McLaren
Duncan McLaren strikes north in the first of a series of journeys that will take him along the high and low roads of the world in search of art
Cottaging The Hedgerow: Part 2
A four part chronicle by Mathew Parkin, foraging queerness and rurality in recent artist moving image
The Hollow Mountain
Voice in the live performance of Maria Fusco’s, ‘Master Rock’, by Claire Walsh
Semina Culture: Wallace Berman and His Circle
16 January–31 March 2007, Grey Art Gallery, New York University
Remarks: The Changing Room
Kirsteen Macdonald on The Changing Room’s new premises
Rooms are shells, they are skins
Rose Higham-Stainton reviews two Munich exhibitions that cut deep imprints into institutional pasts
#4 - December 2005
Review
Books: Wolfgang Tillmans truth study center
Published by Taschen, October 2005
Crone Music
Philomena Epps reviews Beatrice Gibson at Camden Arts Centre, London, 18 January - 31 March
Remarks: No Soul for Sale
Massimiliano Gioni reveals ambitions behind the project on artist groups at the Tate, London.
#4 - December 2005
Review
Books: The Book of David Shrigley
Published by Redstone Press, October 2005
The Clover Queen
Second in a series of dark fairy tales by Ester Krumbachová, published in conjunction with the exhibition and film programme of the Czech artist’s work at CCA Glasgow.