you, there, are you there? | MAP at Glasgow Film Festival 2020
Wednesday, 4 March, 6pm. CCA Cinema. A programme of short film, artist moving image and performance curated by Rosie Roberts and including work by Rhea Storr, Jessica Higgins, Alex Culshaw and Alison Scott
Hashtag: No More Boring Art
Artist and poet Annie Runkel remembers John Baldessari and teases the life out of boredom
She says, my body contains blood baths. How will you care for it?
A response by Kiah Endelman Music to Louise Ahl’s Hevi Metle, a durational performance of six hours, six minutes and six seconds which draws on a feminist approach to alchemy. Made in collaboration with Australian choreographer Angela Goh, Glasgow-based artist Michelle Hannah and including an integrated touch tour by Edinburgh-based Juliana Capes, the work was first seen at Tramway, Glasgow and will be re-presented on 12 February 2020 at Baltic.
Florida
Artist Nicola Murray found herself bamboozled in Florida at the end of last year.
12 Hour Non-State Parade
Angeliki Roussou attended the Cooper Gallery’s marathon symposium in Dundee at the end of last year and found it ‘…surgically curated, perfectly executed, homely and inclusive’. Read more of her report here
Anna Maria Maiolino
Maria Howard responds to this extraordinary Brazilian artist’s retrospective, Making Love Revolutionary, at the Whitechapel Gallery, London until 12 January 2020
Gray Matters
To celebrate the brilliant life and work of Alasdair Gray, who died on 29 December 2019, we republish an article from 2010 by Neil Mulholland that examines the life’s work of the Glasgow artist/writer who chronicled, in words and pictures, the city and the lives of his friends through the lens of a startlingly unique imagination
Commission: Alasdair Gray
To commemorate the life of Alasdair Gray, we also republish his MAP commission. “As he prepares for his Glasgow International solo exhibition at Sorcha Dallas, artist and celebrated author of Lanark, Alasdair Gray publishes for the first time his Prologue to The Tragedy of Faust” MAP, Spring Issue, 2008
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
Announcing three new MAP editors
Reviews Editor duo joined by Commissioning Editor
(Be)longing by Daniella Valz Gen
A poetic document on Valz Gen’s embodied landscape interventions which examine the act of burial as a way to reflect on the migrant body. This is the final invited contribution in response to the Penetrate: Translate series
Mini interview with Bhanu Kapil
Is psychosis particulate? Does it turn the air a light pink, a tint like yellow? Catalina Barroso-Luque asks writer Bhanu Kapil about psychosis, performance, public versus private. We are delighted to publish this short correspondence as part of Penetrate: Translate, a MAP reading group
Can Loneliness Perform a Politics?
‘To be alone. Together. To not brush the feeling of loneliness off. To not console. To not ask to be consoled. To not mask our difference… To not try to make the other one of us.’ Catalina Barroso-Luque reflects on her project Penetrate: Translate—an exercise in the political practice of being lonely together. Four texts celebrate the conclusion of the eponymous five session reading group
Meld / Blueprint
A selection of poems, taken from the publication by Judith Hagan, Jessica Higgins & Rebecca Wilcox, written in September 2019 at The Bower, Brunswick Park, Camberwell
Hanging Out
Artist Moving Image Festival, LUX Scotland at Tramway, Glasgow, 16/17 November 2019. Review by Cicely Farrer
GI reviews and responses
First in a series of reviews and responses to Glasgow International 2018 presentations, Ruth Barker writes on Linder at Glasgow Women’s Library, Celluar World group show at GoMA, and Michelle Hannah’s Keener at The Savings Bank
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
BEFORE, ROAD, INTUITION
Three texts by Sarah Rose. “I remember the score Native by composer Pauline Oliveros which instructs us to, ‘Take a walk at night. Walk so silently that the bottom of your feet become ears.’”
FOCUS: 52nd Venice Biennale—Reflections
10 June–21 November 2007, Venice
Consequences of progress; remnants for the future
Jazmine Linklater on mutability in the works of Ruth Barker and Hannah Leighton-Boyce at Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, 9 March - 29 April
Guy de Cointet
Giles Bailey meets Marie de Brugerolle to talk about the renewed interest in the avant-garde artist’s surreal performances
Remarks: Read-Out! Read-In!
Faith Wilding and Kate Davis are working towards a two-woman discursive exhibition project with CCA, Glasgow, entitled ‘The Long Loch: How Do We Go On From Here?’, commissioned for Glasgow international, April 2010
The bits of ourselves we leave behind
An essay in fragments by Sarah Neely, with extracts from the archive of Margaret Tait
Artists of Course Are a Completely Foreign Species
Elizabeth Neilson views the work of Henry Coombes, an artist flirting with class, family ties and narrative on the boundary between mainstream and artist films
Kelly Nipper: Composing Movements
Joanna Fiduccia explores a practice that reconnects movement with myth
Expanded Cinema: The Live Record
6 December 2008, BFI Southbank, London
Geomancing Digital Material / Reading the MAP Archive Oracularly
Holly Pester introduces a series of ‘magical correspondences’ with MAP’s archive of past issues and content. Each instalment will be a projection that stories imagined potential from the archive data
Books: Neal Beggs MoveSideWays
Essays by Huitorel, McLaren & Wright, published by Isthme éditions, 2004
Others got wings for flying
MAP commission 2017 by Megan Rooney, curated by Louise Briggs
#6 - April 2006
Review
Books: Black Box/Chambre Noire
Catalogue for William Kentridge exhibition, published by Deutsche Guggenheim, 2006
The skin is an organ
Sam Playford-Greenwell on ECZEMA!, written and directed by Maria Fusco as part of The National Theatre of Wales’ NHS70 Festival
#23 Autumn - September 2010
Review
The Potosí Principle
12 May–6 September 2010, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Music: 17
Bill Drummond www.beautiful-books.co.uk ISBN 9781905636266
a weakness for raisins
Ahead of an exhibition of Ester Krumbachová’s films and archive at CCA, Francis Mckee introduces the life and work of this key figure in Czech New Wave cinema
Artists with PhDs
Edited by James Elkins, New Academia Press, 2009, £17, ISBN 978-0-98 18654-5-4
Amsterdam
Morag Keil, 3 March–14 April, Grimm Fine Art 14 / Lucy Stein, 3 March–14 April, Galerie Martin van Zomeren / Sue Tompkins, 3 March–7 April, Galerie Diana Stigter
Diary: Theatre of Dreams
Patrick Semple reports from the terraces at this year’s Art Cup in remote Huntly, Aberdeenshire
How to Fake Your Own Death
The characters in this text are fictitious and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Essay film by Suzanne van der Lingen