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
Letters for/against Wild Invention: Part 3
The final instalment of A+E Collective’s epistolary response to The Wild Book of Invention, Sternberg Press, 2020
Between Earth & Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner
20 March—26 July, The Lighthouse, Glasgow
Emerging: Maria Pires
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
A Maggot - For Freda
Kirsty Hendry considers ‘the flimsy layer that separates one body from another’, as we re-publish her 2018 essay
Back Page: Kim Gordon
Kim Gordon, sound artist and founder member of Sonic Youth, on art and music
Matthew Barney
20 September–11 November 2007, Serpentine Gallery, London
Solastalgic Soliloquy
MAP screens a new film by Ayla Dmyterko, with an accompanying text by Ranjana Thapalyal
This can only be thought of as a monologue within a dialogue
This day long programme for the ECA School of Art Friday Talk series, was curated by Suzanne van der Lingen and Claire Walsh. Presented on 24 March, 2017, the full programme and images, published here, document the occasion
Stan Douglas
15 September 2007–6 January 2008, Staatsgalerie & Wurttembergischer Kunstverine, Stuttgart
Focus: Edinburgh Art Festival
29 July–various dates from end September 2010, various venues
#4 - December 2005
Review
Roderick Buchanan
Camden Arts Centre, London 23 September-13 November, 2005
Diary: Nicola Atkinson Davidson
Nicola Atkinson Davidson writes from Los Angeles as she opens the final installment of her ‘Black Suitcase from Karachi’
TENANCY Part 5: on recipes ii
orchestrated by Rebecca May Johnson, Edwina Attlee, Jen Calleja, Huw Lemmey, Nina Mingya Powles and Rebecca Tamás make Reiz Kugel
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Poets Edwin Morgan and Alan Spence celebrate the 80th birthday of Ian Hamilton Finlay, artist, poet and gardener. Introduction by Ken Cockburn
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
Blaze on, picture
William Kherbek reviews The Ballad of Saint Jerome by Jesse Darling, Tate Britain, London, 22 September - 24 February
Laurie Anderson
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 17 February-2 May and Queens Hall, Edinburgh, 29 April
Maurice Doherty, Mick Peter, Owen Piper, David Sherry
4 November–2 December 2006, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead
Unknown Outcomes
Debi Banerjee and Kirsty Hendry introduce ‘Unknown Outcomes’ - a website assembling the material collected and produced throughout their collaboration with Ted Odling’s archival material. Developed by designer Neil McGuire, ‘Unknown Outcomes’ is a meditation on the role of systems in structuring and legitimising information and knowledge.
Curatorial Bondage
A lack of faith in the solo show leaves The Making of Husbands: Christina Ramberg In Dialogue bound and tied, writes Jamie Limond
The Pleasure of Expense
‘This exhibition… portrays both an ideological time-gone-by and a tableau of our emerging present.’ Ken Neil reviews the recent exhibition by Jasmina Cibic at the Cooper Gallery, Dundee
Journey Six: Glasgow and Port Glasgow
Having clocked up five journeys for MAP, taking him from London to Lumsden, Duncan McLaren boards the train once again to test the values of contemporary art in a pub, a gallery in a flat, a town hall and an annual report
The Weight of History
Victoria Horne considers ‘Weight’, a video work by Kate Davis. Essay published as part of ‘Footnoting the Archive: Endnotes’
Residency: Nick Evans
Sarah Smith talks to Nick Evans about his work at home and away