She Exclaimed
Holly Pester considers exclamation marks in Second Place by Rachel Cusk and Sarah Tripp’s Guitar!
Doin’ it for the kids, the ESTATE way. 13 snapshots by Neil Cooper
‘With Jimmy Cauty a kind of absentee post-apocalyptic Pied Piper, the volcanic quake of ESTATE proves an irresistible attraction.’ Parked in Muirhouse, Edinburgh throughout June, the event occupies Easterhouse, Glasgow until end July 2021
Weeds on War
Rose Higham-Stainton reflects on Orford Ness in Suffolk and site-specific artworks by Alice Channer, Tatiana Trouvé, Emma McNally and others
‘A city that changes every time I turn my head’
Donald Butler visits Glasgow International 2021 and finds his ‘attention’ drifting
Home Economics
Rachel Boyd visits an exhibition that brings together the work of Franki Raffles and Margaret Salmon. Part of Glasgow International 2021
Looking at Quilts
Mhari McMullan reviews work by Arrange Whatever Pieces Come Your Way at Glasgow Print Studio. Part of Glasgow International 2021
Unsettling Ecologies: We Began By Measuring Distance
Phoebe Campion on Basma Alsharif’s film, part of the Another Gaze programme ‘For a Free Palestine: Films by Palestinian Women’. The festival closes 18 June
Peripheral Visions
Jamie Limond reviews Carol Rhodes: See the World at Kelvingrove, part of Glasgow International 2021
Nothing Personal
Susannah Thompson reviews a new journal that dares to ask the awkward questions and poses complex ideas around critical conversation
‘I wasn’t looking back, we could hardly see ahead.’ The Chileans who came to Hull
Tom White explores the relationship between Chilean refugees and Hull in the 1970s
Things, tunnels, traces, thoughts: Part Three
Tom Jeffreys’ response to new work by Stephanie Mann concludes
Things, tunnels, traces, thoughts: Part Two
Tom Jeffreys’ response to new work by Stephanie Mann continued…
Things, tunnels, traces, thoughts: Part One
A momentary gathering of words by Tom Jeffreys in response to new work by Stephanie Mann
A Public Class: Radical Pub Crawl
Timothea Armour goes on a virtual pub crawl hosted by artist Ruth Ewan and Cooper Gallery, Dundee
An Ode to Fear and Fire
A film and poem by Saoirse Amira Anis detailing the intricate web that links her experiences with movement, nature and heritage. An Ode to Fear and Fire touches on the ways in which these links can act as the spark which turns ‘the fear in her belly’ into ‘a fire in her belly’.
Perpetual Inventory Rosalind E Krauss
MIT Press, 2010, ISBN 0-262-01380-0, £22.95
A world through Colorado Pink
William Kherbek reviews Ian Giles’ exhibition After BUTT at Chelsea Space, London, 24 January - 2 March
Journey Three: By Loch Eriboll
Duncan McLaren camps out in the Scottish Highlands on a search for land art and ‘globulites’
David Shrigley: Top Drawer
David Shrigley is astonishingly prolific. Outside the mainstream, but embraced by it, he makes T-shirts and posters, but is also bought by the Tate. Neil Cooper visits him in his Glasgow studio and finds the man very much like his work.
COTTAGING THE HEDGEROW: PART 4
The final instalment of a four part chronicle by Mathew Parkin, foraging queerness and rurality in recent artist moving image
Remarks: Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth
The collaborators talk about their current fellowship and upcoming projects
Part 1: ‘Matter as a Hope of Finding Some Answers.’
A short MAP season dedicated to a series of interviews between Eastern European national participants at the 58th Biennale di Venezia and artist writers Manca Bajec and Isobel Wohl. Introducing the project, Bajec and Wohl are in conversation with writer/filmmaker Juliet Jacques.
Naked and Practical
Amy Todman reviews a new collection of short stories, scenes and fragments by Siân Robinson Davies, published by tenletters
Novel - Issue One: Edited by Alun Rowlands and Matt Williams
ISBN 978-1- 906424-07-7, www.novelpublication.org
Portfolio: Dining on Imagination
Introducing the work of emerging artists, Portfolio focuses this issue on the paintings of Rabiya Choudhry, first seen at the Collective Gallery’s New Work Scotland Programme 2004. Choudhry has since been selected to exhibit at the Prague Biennale 2005
Richard Foreman: Idiot Savant, The Public Theater
27 October–20 December, 2009, New York
The Engagement Party
Aniela Piasecka and Paloma Proudfoot share a text from their recent performance at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
Part 9: ‘Matter as a Hope of Finding Some Answers.’ SLOVENIA
‘…it seems that we are returning to that rather deterministic old situation in the current geopolitical shift.’ Artist Marko Peljhan discusses collaborative practice as a legacy for change.
Remarks: 53rd Venice Biennale
Judith Winter and Graeme Domke, Dundee Contemporary Arts, discuss their selection for Scotland and Venice at the 53rd Venice Biennale.
The Residency: Part 1
James N. Hutchinson’s three-part narrative is situated in and around Inshriach Bothy. ‘What on Earth?… The whippet has no answer.’
#31 - February 2014
Miranda Blennerhassett, Two Shapes Three Colours
MAP introduces the Dublin artist’s new stop motion animation
Faces in the Crowd: Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 3 Dec 2004-6 Mar 2005
Diary: Theatre of Dreams
Patrick Semple reports from the terraces at this year’s Art Cup in remote Huntly, Aberdeenshire
Infinite Resistance™
Eliel Jones on the healing potential of Interlocutor by Rachal Bradley, Gasworks, London, 25 January - 18 March
Chapter One
The first instalment of Out of Office Auto-Reply, a collaborative serial fiction project following the exploits of art critic Colin Clout
#1 - February 2005
Review
Mexican Lights
Moira Jeffrey travels to Monterrey and discovers bright lights at Sodium and Asphalt, a major showing of 12 British artists in Mexico
#34 - March 2015