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
Penetrate: Translate reading group
Final session. Pinochet Porn in Progress by Ellen Cantor. CCA Clubroom, Monday 9 December, 6.30pm
Penetrate: Translate reading group
Session Four. NOW OVER. Ban en Banlieue by Bhanu Kapil. CCA, Monday 25 November, 6.30pm
Healing Thoughts
William Kherbek reviews Honey-Suckle Company: Omnibus, ICA, London, 2 October 2019 to 12 January 2020
Penetrate: Translate reading group overview
A MAP reading group led and devised by Catalina Barroso-Luque, a Mexican artist living in Glasgow.
Emerging: Anna Molska
Malgorzata Mleczko finds the unexpected at the heart of Anna Molska’s practice
Gardenlust #1: The Hellmouth
On the art of garden renovation: a new monthly column by Isabella Streffen
#25 - July 2011
Remarks: 30th São Paulo Biennial
Luis Pérez-Oramas, André Severo, Tobi Maier and Isabela Villanueva share their plans for the 2012 edition
Etienne Chambaud: The Hole of the Matter
Joanna Fiduccia discovers the work of Etienne Chambaud is punctured with an element of surprise
Once you cut off your braid, where do you reattach it?
Tereza Hrušková reviews the exhibition ’33 – ’29 – ’36 at UM Gallery, Prague, until 25 February
Residency: Fringe Fraternity
Cathryn Drake visits Sicily to talk to Duncan Marquiss about his new work, artists’ groups and living in Italy
Hayley Tompkins: Hypothetically Seeing
Joanna Fiduccia visits Glasgow to meet Hayley Tompkins, in whose work she discovers abstraction of an extended, visionary nature
The Hidden / Lars Laumann
19 January–24 February 2008, Maureen Paley, London
Books: Scott Myles
Edited by Beatrix Ruf www.jrp-ringier.com ISBN 978-3-905701-63-0 £17
MULTIPLEXING II
A text by Mike Sperlinger in collaboration with MULTIPLEXING, a cinema event originally presented in south London in 2014 and restaged in Glasgow on 21 March 2017. The programme celebrates the legacy of artist, performer, curator and writer, Ian White (1971-2013) through his influential teaching position with LUX
The Devil Makes Work
Fiona Jardine examines the relationship between art and the everyday world of work Nine Trades of Dundee, 1 July–31 October
Andro Wekua
5 December 2008–8 February 2009, Camden Arts Centre, London
Back Page: ‘Brain 2’, 2009
An encoded broadcast on Channel 21, Citizen’s Band. A script by Nathaniel Mellors
In Conversation: Jonathan Horowitz
Steven Cairns talks to the artist about why he is drawn to reckless personalities, vegetarianism, the Holocaust and how art writes history
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
East Art Map: Contemporary Art and Eastern Europe
Edited by IRWIN AFTERALL BOOKS, 2006, £24.95
Haris Epaminonda: Images in Search of Lost Time
Haris Epaminonda’s recent series of Polaroids dovetail reality and imagination. Isla Leaver-Yap investigates
Claire Barclay / Neil Clements / Sally Osborn / Jonathan Owen / Sara Barker / Albrecht Schäfer
15 February–26 April 2008, doggerfisher, Edinburgh
Focus: 6th Berlin Biennale For Contemporary Art
11 June–8 August, 2010, Various venues
A Well-Cultivated Garden
Duncan McLaren visits a Glasgow show that seems custom-made for this Enlightenment issue
#28 - May 2013
In the Shadow of the Hand : Object 6b
‘The Idea’ Sarah Forrest responds in writing to Virginia Hutchison. Their collaboration ‘In the Shadow of the Hand’ continues on MAP
#10 - June 2007
Emerging: Catherine Street
Ruth Beal talks to an artist who offers ‘a glimpse through a velvet curtain’