An Announcement from MAP magazine
After a run of nearly 20 years, MAP magazine is now closed to pitches and commissions. It has been both a privilege and pleasure to have worked with so many wonderful contributors, editors and organisations across Scotland and beyond, throughout the life of this publishing project.
East Art Map: Contemporary Art and Eastern Europe
Edited by IRWIN AFTERALL BOOKS, 2006, £24.95
Romance in what feels like The End
Marie Lopez reviews Elaine Kahn’s latest poetry collection Romance or the End, Soft Skull Press, 2020
The gatekeepers’ movements invent another language
Laura Edbrook’s text was written to accompany the video work ‘The End is the Beginning’
#13 Spring - March 2008
Back Page: Donelle Woolford
FROM: DONELLE WOOLFORD, SUBJECT: DOUBLE AGENT, ICA, LONDON, TO: MAP
Cat’s have paws, can’t take them off
Kate Morgan responds to On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays by Emily Ogden
Quiet Heat: an Introduction
Dave Young introduces ‘Quiet Heat: Archive Machines and War Fever’. Commissioned as part of ‘Footnoting the Archive’, and produced using research conducted during a remote residency at the Artist Run Data Center, run by Servus in Linz, Austria, in late 2015. The extended text is hosted by the Artist Run Data Centre and accessible at quietheat.dvyng.com
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).
BRICK, BLOCK, INK, STONE
Cheryl McGregor reviews Craig Coulthard’s new solo show
#24 - November 2010
Review
Marc Camille Chaimowicz
31 October–6 February, Inverleith House, Edinburgh
Carol Rhodes
1 December 2007–24 February 2008, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Back Page: Juliette Blightman
Dear Juliette We would like to invite you to write about the view from a window and whatever associated thoughts are inspired by it. We heard you are a bit of an avid rear-window photographer and thought this small project would go well with the domestic-space thematic inherent in your practice.Best, MAP
Light Translations
Rebecca Wilcox listens in and responds to ‘Stolen Voices Album Launch’ by Johanna Linsley & Rebecca Louise Collins, CCA, Glasgow
The Self-Illuminating Pen by Sarah Tripp
A notebook of letters, writing exercises and over 100 blank pages, published by MAP Editions
The Gingerbread House
Third 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.
Emerging: Ben and Holly
We introduce two pairs of artists who attracted attention at the Edinburgh Art Festival 2006; and two individual artists who are making a visible mark on the landscape of environmental art
Holbein to Hockney, Drawings from the Royal Collection
The Queen’s Gallery, Edinburgh, 25 Nov 2004-6 Nov 2005
The Making of a Film
Jessica Higgins responds to Alex Hetherington’s new work ‘Sister Films’. This text is co-published by CCA Annex and MAP and can be viewed on both platforms
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
In conversation: Tom Burr
American sculptor Tom Burr talks to Steven Cairns about ‘the persona of the artist’, being catagorised within genres, and the influence of great cities on his practice
#21 Spring - March 2010
Review
Urban Stories: The X Baltic Triennial of International Art
25 September–22 November 2009, Various venues, Vilnius
#28 - February 2013
In the Shadow of the Hand : Object 4b
A collaborative project by Sarah Forrest and Virginia Hutchison
Chapter Five
The fifth instalment of Out of Office Auto-Reply by Suzanne van der Lingen
The Hollow Mountain
Voice in the live performance of Maria Fusco’s, ‘Master Rock’, by Claire Walsh
Looking at Quilts
Mhari McMullan reviews work by Arrange Whatever Pieces Come Your Way at Glasgow Print Studio. Part of Glasgow International 2021