Weird Folds
Susannah Thompson reads an expansive anthology of poetry just published. ‘I can’t breathe but it’s worth it’
MAP Editorial Residency 2020
Rosie Roberts & Alison Scott finished their near year long programme in December—we celebrate their contribution
Back Page: Rear Window Cinema
Alison Scott shares notes on the window as cinema and a series of ‘Back Pages’ in the MAP archive, offering a Back Page to this extended issue
The Jelliness of an Eyeball and its Meaning
An interview between Melissa McCarthy—author of Sharks, Death, Surfers: an Illustrated Companion, Sternberg (2019)—and Rosie Roberts
The Self-Illuminating Pen by Sarah Tripp
A notebook of letters, writing exercises and over 100 blank pages, newly published by MAP Editions
Introduction to the cold
Camara Taylor’s writing launches their curated series looking at ‘the cold’ in its various registers and realities
End of Residency Party: reading, viewing, and sharing
Join special guests hosted by resident Reviews and Project Editors Rosie Roberts and Alison Scott, 22 October 8 - 9.30pm on zoom
How to Act
That First Sensitive Stage of Becoming Acquainted: Christian Noelle Charles talks with Adam Benmakhlouf
And the tears came
Adjoa Armah reflects on her relationship to dreaming as a dreamer with aphantasia: a condition she experiences as having a blind mind’s eye and an inability to voluntarily recall basic sensorial information
Field Notes
Naomi Gessesse chooses highlights from Glasgow Short Film Festival online, August 2020
Boys’ Club
Dada is back… or perhaps it never went away. As a major retrospective transfers from Paris to New York, an exhibition in Edinburgh explores the influence of the ‘anti-art’ movement on today’s British practitioners. So is it all dirty jokes and Oedipal angst, or should our hearts belong to Dada?
Remarks: New Films In The Making
Steven Bode, director of The Film and Video Umbrella discusses the history of the organisation and some upcoming commission.
Commission: Martin Boyce
The artist presents archival material related to new work for this year’s Venice Biennale
Journey Five: The Thames
On the fifth leg of his intrepid wanderings, Duncan McLaren takes two wintery voyages up the Thames, and finds the spirit of the new haunted by the remembrance of things past
Like an angel passing through my room
Event over. An evening with Jude Browning and Anne-Marie Copestake at CCA Glasgow, 6.30pm, Tuesday 24 September, 2019
Bear Compound
Artist Mark Dion describes his brush with the little known bears of Dundee and his scheme to build new vistas for them and for those on the human side of their enclosure. Bear Broch opened to the public in the winter of 2005
#39 - July 2017
Review
this scattering of minds; like seeds
Kirsty Hendry responds to a film screening and Q&A with artist Sulaïman Majali at Transmission Gallery
Claire Barclay: Silver Gilt
Stepehn Friedman Gallery, London, 20 October–19 November 2005
Hanging Out
Artist Moving Image Festival, LUX Scotland at Tramway, Glasgow, 16/17 November 2019. Review by Cicely Farrer
The { } Age: Alistair Gentry on the Enlightenment
Pamphleteers of the 18th century didn’t mince their words. And neither does Alistair Gentry, writer and artist, here speaking out on the idea of Enlightenment.
Networks and Their Discontents
William Kherbek visits The Eternal Network, the key group exhibition in transmediale 2020 festival—End to End, HKW, Berlin
Voicing the Silences
Essay by Sarah Neely just published in A Feminist Chorus, an 80 page risograph printed bookwork. Purchase from info@mapmagazine.
she didn’t paint the sea, after Joan Eardley
by Daisy Lafarge
AMENABLE ARCHIVE
Edinburgh Art Festival: Calum Sutherland considers The Green Man by Lucy Skaer and others at Talbot Rice Gallery, 26 July - 6 October
Into the Unknown
Rebecca Bligh reviews Into the Unknown: A Journey Through Science Fiction, Barbican’s summer exhibition, 3 June - 1 September
I to I
Part one of a correspondence between Daisy Hildyard and Tom Jeffreys, on the politics of pronouns and how ‘we’ might include nonhuman life
Emerging: Richard Robinson & Robert Bermingham
Ruth Beale finds explorations of masculine fantasies in Wales
Jacqueline Donachie and Darren Monckton: Tomorrow Belongs to Me
HUNTERIAN MUSEUM 9 JUN–2 SEP, 2006, Glasgow
Lilt, Twang, Tremor
Ruth Barker reviews Sarah Rose, Susannah Stark and Hanna Tuulikki at CCA, 18 November 2017 - 14 January 2018
#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
The Allure of Simultaneity
Kashif Sharma-Patel explores social poetics, culture and experimental writing in Anthony Joseph’s The Frequency of Magic
This Drove My Mother Up The Wall
Susan Finlay reviews Katharina Grosse at South London Gallery, 28 September - 3 December
Where in the world do art and science meet?
Almost 50 years after CP Snow’s famous ‘Two Cultures’ lecture, are art and science still worlds apart? Julian Kiverstein explores a question of compatability
Some Proximity
Text meets the linguistically ambiguous moving body in Jonathan P. Watts’ reflection on his working relationship with dance artist Adam Linder, the space of criticism and the choreography of contemporary art spaces
THE TRAIN
Maria Howard recalls a train journey, a film and counterfeit memories of collective grief
BAD LUCK
First 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, 7 December 2018 - 27 January 2019
Chapter Two
The second instalment of Out of Office Auto-Reply by William Kherbek
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.