Survival Kit
An essay by Olivia Scott-Berry in response to The Land+The People, reflecting on deep time, eerie geology and methods of bearing witness
Beneath the Platform
William Kherbek reflects on the 10th Berlin Biennale, We Don’t Need Another Hero, 9 June - 9 September
‘To repeat this circle’
Rediscovering Margaret Tait at 100: Sarah Neely reports on three important exhibitions.
CRYSTALLINE CHRYSALIS CRISIS
David Upton reports on a dissident takeover of Summerhall’s basement by artist and musician Fritz Welch
‘tomorrow maybe they will kill us’
Edinburgh Art Festival: Katy Hastie writes in response to Shilpa Gupta’s For, in your tongue I cannot hide at The Fire Station, Edinburgh College of Art, 26 July - 26 August
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
WOMAN WITH A RED HAT
Edinburgh Art Festival: Tom Jeffreys reflects on ‘Event for a Stage’ by Tacita Dean, part of Woman with a Red Hat, Fruitmarket, 7 July - 30 September
Hemispheric Phases
Edinburgh Art Festival: Tom Jeffreys visits a group exhibition at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, including work by Birthe Jorgensen, Scott Rogers and Santiago Poggio, 28 July - 26 August
AMENABLE ARCHIVE
Edinburgh Art Festival: Calum Sutherland considers The Green Man by Lucy Skaer and others at Talbot Rice Gallery, 26 July - 6 October
New Order, Other Spaces
Lucy Weir writes on an exhibition by Jo Longhurst exploring the personal and professional in competitive gymnastics. Kelvin Hall, Glasgow, 2 - 12 August
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
Something for the Boys
Eliel Jones reviews a new film work by Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings at Two Queens, Leicester, 30 June - 1 September
Naked and Practical
Amy Todman reviews a new collection of short stories, scenes and fragments by Siân Robinson Davies, published by tenletters
Wannabe: notes toward a performance
Aniela Piasecka of Stasis on research, girl gangs and residency ambivalence
Remarks: Face to Face
Collector, founder and president of the eponymous foundation in Turin, Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo talks about FACE.
Pinochet Porn in Progress
Artist Ellen Cantor sketches out the narrative beginnings of an ambitious film project
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
#24 - November 2010
Review
The Portable John Latham
Edited by Antony Hudek and Athanasios Velios, Occasional Papers in association with Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2010, £12.50, ISBN 978-0-9562605-5-0
Diango Hernández
6 September–25 October, 2008, Barbara Thumm, Berlin
Zidane: a 21st Century Portrait
CANNES FILM FESTIVAL WORLD PREMIERE 23 APR EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 19/20 AUG, 2006, Cannes
Report: Exhibition by Commission
Jane Neal traces the path of a new phenomenon in British art: the meteoric rise of the public commission.
Music: Shadowed Spaces
6–15 July 2007, various venues around Scotland
New Work Scotland
Collective Gallery director Kate Gray announces the gallery’s dynamic annual programme. Jacob Kerray / Shelly Nadashi 16 October–28 November. Nicolas Party / Catherine Payton 11 December 2010–30 January 2011
Absent without leave—Second Young Artists Biennial
12 October–16 November 2006, Bratianu Palace, Bucharest
more of an avalanche
Helena Haimes on the group show at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, 11 February - 8 April
Portfolio: A Question of Degrees
Four artists, themselves graduates of Scotland’s art colleges, select work from the 2005 degree shows in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dundee—for art’s sake. Photography by recent graduates
David Hominal
11 June–15 August 2010, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva
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…
#24 - November 2010
Review
Elizabeth McAlpine
26 October–20 November, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
Studio: Alison Watt
Writer Diana Hope travels with photographer Luke Watson to the National Gallery in London to find painter Alison Watt in a studio under that hallowed roof
Jonathan Monk
8 December 2006–18 February 2007, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin / 29 November 2006 –20 January 2007, Lisson Gallery, London
The International Necronautical Society (INS) 17 January
17 January, Tate Britain, London
Sun Photographs
Ken Okiishi and Nick Mauss reflect on Zoe Leonard’s Sun Photographs
Voicing the Archive
An installation of readings from MAP’s archive at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop and Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow