Pastoral Drama
Eliel Jones visits Jamie Crewe’s recent exhibition at Tramway, Glasgow, 16 September - 28 October
Blaze on, picture
William Kherbek reviews The Ballad of Saint Jerome by Jesse Darling, Tate Britain, London, 22 September - 24 February
Make Me Up
Victoria Horne reviews the new feature-length film by Rachel Maclean
A SHELL, A HOUSE, A HOME, A FACE, A FAÇADE, A FRONTISPIECE
Hussein Mitha responds to COCO!NUTS! by Rabiya Choudhry at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, 15 September - 20 October
Permanently Temporary
Lotte Lewis visits A Postcard from Amsterdam, an exhibition by Charlott Weise and Franziska Schulz at LOWER.GREEN, a temporary gallery space in Norwich
Electric Speech
Emma Balkind reviews Telephone by Ariana Reines, published by Wonder
Gardenlust #1: The Hellmouth
On the art of garden renovation: a new monthly column by Isabella Streffen
The Big Sneeze
Philomena Epps reviews Mika Rottenberg at Goldsmiths CCA, London, 6 September - 4 November 2018
Do you really just want to be part of a band?
Notes from the 14th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, 20-23 September 2018, by Marcus Jack
Mostly No
Sarah Bernstein reflects on solitary women in the fiction of Muriel Spark
The Symptom and The Cure
Matthew Turner reviews The Anti Ecstatic Machines by Benedict Drew at Matt’s Gallery, London, 22–30 September
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
Marcel Dzama: Tree With Roots
IKON GALLERY, BIRMINGHAM 24 MAY–16 JUL; CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, GLASGOW, 5 AUG–16 SEP, 2006
Remarks: Tree
Tania Kovats discusses TREE, the project which won her the Natural History Museum’s Darwin Canopy Commission.
Sterling Ruby
9 October–15 November, 2008, Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, London
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
Scorpio’s Garden
12 October–15 November, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin
#21 Spring - March 2010
Review
Darren Banks and Oonagh Hegarty
17 January–28 February 2010, Sierra Metro, Edinburgh
Expanded Cinema: The Live Record
6 December 2008, BFI Southbank, London
a new thread, wayward
Rebecca Wilcox responds to Virginia Woolf: an exhibition inspired by her writings at Tate St Ives, 10 February - 29 April
Listen up! The best art & philosophy is on YouTube 4shure
MAP presented Gillian Wylde’s ‘Will internets eat brain’ for Glasgow Film Festival 2017, Friday 24 February, 6-7.30, CCA cinema, Glasgow
The Great Transformation—Art and Tactical Magic
7 June–7 September 2008, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
Marc Bijl, Gerard Byrne, Valerie Jouve
21 April–23 June 2007, Aliceday, Brussels
But to Go Back
Jenny Brownrigg looks at the meaning of monuments and memory in the work of Croatian artist David Maljkovic
JG Ballard: Atrocity Exhibition
Sean Ashton explores the disjunction of art and aesthetics using the signposts provided by Zodiac 3000 and the metafictional writings of JG Ballard
NVA
Angus Farquhar, creative director of Glasgow-based public art agency NVA, looks to secure the future of the abandoned, yet inspirational, St Peter’s Seminary
Arbitrating Space
Steven Cairns considers the function of the gallery through 1960s minimalist concepts
Remarks: Performa 09
Roselee Goldberg, founder and director of Performa, maps out the origins, current programme, and future of the biennial of performance in New York City
Andrea Büttner: The Shame of Culture
Richard Birkett discusses the sensitive work of an enquiring artist
A North Light ~ Cynosure, Pier Arts Center
7 July–10 November 2007, Pier Art Centre, Orkney
Reduced Construction
28 November 20081–8 January 2009, Karma International, Zürich
Diary: Theatre of Dreams
Patrick Semple reports from the terraces at this year’s Art Cup in remote Huntly, Aberdeenshire
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
Books: Taking The Matter Into Common Hands: Contemporary Art and Collaborative Practices
Edited by Johanna Billing, Maria Lind and Lars Nilsson www.blackdogonline.com £19.95
Certain of Nothing: Francis Alÿs
Francis McKee traces the path of Belgian artist Francis Alÿs as he explores the boundaries between politics, poetry and art
Remarks: New Commissioning Award
Director Paul Hobson reveals the Contemporary Art Society’s key objectives for its ambitious new award.
DROSTE
A new film by Mairi Lafferty made on residency at no.w.here, London was made available as part of ‘Footnoting the Archive’.