A Year of Carte Blanche & Other Chimeras
Editorial
Our new MAP commissioning editor, Daniela Cascella, introduces the series A Year of Carte Blanche and Other Chimeras. Across twelve months she will bring together new work by writers, philosophers, artists and musicians, punctuated by editorial responses in the form of afterwords. In addition, MAP will continue to publish reviews and other texts
Painted Fragments
Victoria Horne examines new paintings by Alison Watt at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
The Deepest Gurgle I Ever Heard
Megan Rudden steps into the ‘fabricated ecosystem’ of the Jame St Findlay and Jonny Walker exhibition at Kiosk, Govanhill
Anam creative and The Alchemy Experiment
Maria Sledmere visits the launch of a new collaborative platform for musicians and artists in Glasgow
Bordered Miles: in the footsteps of Iman Tajik
Tom Jeffreys documents the 26 mile walk from Glasgow city centre to Dungavel House detention centre
A Measure of Longing
Enxhi Mandija reviews The Mourning Lines by Tamarin Norwood, MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE, 2021
A Year of Carte Blanche & Other Chimeras
The Book and the Lattice
by Richard Skelton
A Year of Carte Blanche & Other Chimeras
Editorial Response One: A Lichen, a Spell
Beginning a monthly series, Daniela Cascella transmits her thoughts on recent texts published as part of her year long project for MAP
Being Beside Oneself, 3
The final selection of writing by Lydia Davies
Being Beside Oneself, 2
Part 2 of a selection of writing by Lydia Davies
Being Beside Oneself, 1
Writing by Lydia Davies brings together a selection of short stories and segments from an eponymous essay that explores relational and narrative constructions of self through the transformative potential of souvenirs, grief and voice. Lydia is the recipient of this year’s John Calcutt Prize for Critical Writing, presented by The Glasgow School of Art in collaboration with MAP.
Rooms are shells, they are skins
Rose Higham-Stainton reviews two Munich exhibitions that cut deep imprints into institutional pasts
a new thread, wayward
Rebecca Wilcox responds to Virginia Woolf: an exhibition inspired by her writings at Tate St Ives, 10 February - 29 April
#12 Winter - November 2007
Review
William Eggleston
28 July–14 October 2007, Inverleith House, Edinburgh
Green Dot
Glasgow-based artist Shauna McMullan travelled across countries to exhibit in ‘Crossovers’, part of Japan’s 2005 Aichi Expo. Mapped by a big green dot, the resulting work ‘Via’, has its first UK showing in MAP
In Production: The confraternity of neoflagellants
Neil Mulholland, Torsten Lauschmann, Alex Pollard and Norman Hogg discuss the concept of neomedievalism, introducing the subject of an exhibition opening in Edinburgh this summer
Tropicalia: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture
Barbican, London, 16 February–21 May 2006
Report: Internet Art in the Present Tense
Karen Archey examines the rise, fall and rise of art and information technologies
Remarks: Nottingham Central
Alex Farquharson, curator of the new Nottingham Contemporary, talks about the highlights of the year ahead and beyond
Jude Browning talks to Anne-Marie Copestake in bed
A video conversation inspired by Copestake’s series of interviews between artists and musicians, Trigger Tonic (1999-2004).
‘Sick Sick Sick’ : The Books of Ornery Women
A reading project examining a radical or ‘bludgeoned’ subjectivity of female writers
Florida
Artist Nicola Murray found herself bamboozled in Florida at the end of last year.
Paulina Olowska: And it is Time
Paulina Olowska’s painterly sense of history and fascination for collaboration is discussed by Isla Leaver-Yap
Interview: Dominic Paterson talks to Georgina Starr
Bubbles, brains and what led to I, Cave, a new solo show opening at mima on 7 April 2015.
Ross Sinclair versus Sir Edwin Landseer
13 January–9 April 2007, Aberdeen Art Gallery
Emerging: Lynn Hynd
Colin Perry enjoys the ‘pleasure of not knowing’ in the sculptural collage of this Glasgow-based artist
Emerging: Alan Stanners
Darren Rhymes finds the work of this young Glasgow-based painter full of surreal intentions and growing towards abstract confidence
Counterpart
TJ Carlin talks to Leigh Ledare about personal subjectivity and its reception
Guy de Cointet
Giles Bailey meets Marie de Brugerolle to talk about the renewed interest in the avant-garde artist’s surreal performances
Canvases and Careers Today: Criticism and Its Markets
Editors: Isabelle Graw, Daniel Birnbaum, 2008
ENLIGHTENED COMMISSION
Curator of the 2009 Edinburgh International Festival’s ‘The Enlightenments’ programme, Juliana Engberg is enthuses over the commission by Joseph Kosuth
Michael Fullerton: Triangulation Theory
Michael Fullerton’s oeuvre adds up to much more than the paintings so frequently associated with it. John Calcutt discovers a playfulness of thought and fascination for chemistry, and theories in general, in this strikingly inquisitive artist’s work
#4 - December 2005
Review
Robert Smithson
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 22 June-16 October
The Enlightenments
Various dates, August–October, 2009, Various venues, Edinburgh
On Permeability and Companionship
Stephanie Mann writes in the second of a series of three artist responses to ‘Strangers’—a new book of essays by Rebecca Tamás, Makina Press, 2020
#4 - December 2005
Review
Books: The Book of David Shrigley
Published by Redstone Press, October 2005
The Engagement Party
Aniela Piasecka and Paloma Proudfoot share a text from their recent performance at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop