Part 5: The Self-Illuminating Pen
Sarah Tripp concludes her letter series with: Dear Alice. ‘This is a story about what I let go of and what I took hold of.’
Demystification Through Participation
Theo Carnegy-Tan considers Ruth Beale’s call to engage, belong, and re-common the commons
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
Part 4: The Self-Illuminating Pen
With. The penultimate letter in this series by Sarah Tripp. ‘I don’t play a person or a wooden bee.’
TENANCY: on recipes, part i
a project in two parts from Rebecca May Johnson
TENANCY: on recipes, part ii
orchestrated by Rebecca May Johnson, Edwina Attlee, Jen Calleja, Huw Lemmey, Nina Mingya Powles and Rebecca Tamás make Reiz Kugel
YOU KNOW IT BUT IT DON’T KNOW YOU
After TAKO TAAL: a 5 poem series by Alycia Pirmohamed
‘Some things–by which I mean everything’
Timothea Armour takes a look at Heather Phillipson’s first monograph, published by Prestel, July 2020
Part 3: The Self-Illuminating Pen
Sarah Tripp’s letter series continues with The Glue Ear. ‘For a long time my ears were nobody’s concern.’
Revisiting ‘Dancing With Myself’
Ahead of presenting new work by Debi Banerjee as part of the current programming strand ‘Through Motion’, we take a moment to look back at Debi’s project ‘Dancing With Myself’ in the MAP archive
Part 2: The Self-Illuminating Pen
The-Here-And-Now-Word. ‘What turns out to be astonishing is the way this pen illuminates one word at a time.’ Sarah Tripp continues to write deep into the dark.
A PLACE FOR 4 WOMEN, #4 COLD MOON
The final part of a four part poetic response by Valerie Norris to ‘The Bitter Cup’ by Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan
BELLA
Hannah James responds to a year in conversation with artist Rosie O’Grady
Part 1: The Self-Illuminating Pen by Sarah Tripp
Part 1 of a 5 part series. Sarah Tripp shines light on words past midnight in her ‘letters to the editor’ alongside video representations in collaboration with Isobel Lutz-Smith. Free pamphlet available
farewell, Art: Imagining a Hospitable Planetary Future
Angeliki Roussou reflects on ‘farewell, Art’, a project by Bureau d’études commissioned by Rhubaba, Edinburgh
A PLACE FOR 4 WOMEN, #3 HARVEST MOON
The third in a four part poetic response by Valerie Norris to ‘The Bitter Cup’ by Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan
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
Lucy Reynolds: Talks
Glasgow School of Art, Friday Event at the Glasgow Film Theatre, 11am—12:30pm, 14 February 2014 | Edinburgh College of Art, Friday Talk, Main Lecture Theatre, 11.30am—1pm, 28 March 2014
Prison Landscapes
An excerpt from Hatty Nestor’s forthcoming book on portraits of the incarcerated
#4 - December 2005
Review
Mark Dion
South London Gallery, London 9 September-30 October; Firstsite, Colchester 5 November-10 December; The Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston 12 January-14 March, 2006
Alex Pollard
11 October–2 November, 2008, Whitechapel Project Space, London
Lucy Stein and Manuela Gernedel share thoughts on Carole Gibbons as inspiration
Three women painters have shared a common address. Two have a conversation embracing their muse, home, practices, generation and serendipity
The Residency: Part 2
James N. Hutchinson’s narrative continues. ‘I stand for a moment and glance around. I can’t see a car. Where could the third child be?’
Chapter Nine
The ninth instalment of Out of Office Auto-Reply by Alberta Whittle
The bits of ourselves we leave behind
An essay in fragments by Sarah Neely, with extracts from the archive of Margaret Tait
Vulpecula
A footnote by Suzanne van der Lingen, re-published in March 2019 as part of Issue #49, Couldn’t we just bee?
Gardenlust #3: Holly, Ivy, Hellebore, Pine
A monthly column by Isabella Streffen
The Enlightenments
Various dates, August–October, 2009, Various venues, Edinburgh
#4 - December 2005
Review
Jim Lambie—Byrds
The Modern Institute, Glasgow 7 October-11 November, 2005
#13 Spring - March 2008
Back Page: Donelle Woolford
FROM: DONELLE WOOLFORD, SUBJECT: DOUBLE AGENT, ICA, LONDON, TO: MAP
Gabriel Kuri
17 November 2007–26 January 2008, Esther Schipper, Berlin
Report: Rediscoveries & De-marginalisations
Chris Sharp delves into the practices of artists whose reputations have been lost & now found
Aernout Mik: Deadlock
Barry Schwabsky examines the truths behind the video work of renowned Netherlands artist Aernout Mik and wonders just how close we all are to being extras in one of his videos
#4 - December 2005
Review
Roderick Buchanan
Camden Arts Centre, London 23 September-13 November, 2005
Remarks: Moot Moves
Tom Godfrey, one of four artist/directors of Nottingham’s Moot organisation is excited about new prospects opened up by the occupation of new premises.
The Weight of History
Victoria Horne considers ‘Weight’, a video work by Kate Davis. Essay published as part of ‘Footnoting the Archive: Endnotes’
Report: Art of Survival
In this two-part report, Paddy Johnson examines the day-to day survival of commercial and mixed-economy art organisations in New York, while Jennifer Thatcher assesses the new conditions fully-funded UK spaces now face
Bogie from the Bridge
Roman Signer transmits from the river. Alice Bain picks up (and is translated from English to German)
#37 - January 2016
edits-while-u-wait
57 texts from ‘edits-while-u-wait’: the free editing service for artists’ writings aimed at exploring the role of the editor in contemporary art. Introduction by Claire Walsh
This Drove My Mother Up The Wall
Susan Finlay reviews Katharina Grosse at South London Gallery, 28 September - 3 December
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
#2 - May 2005
Judgement Day: Plants, Politics and Art
Francis McKee digs into the politics of seeds, GM and ownership, uncovering the evolving open source software of Simon Yuill and Chad McCail which seeks to challenge the state we’re in
Electric Speech
Emma Balkind reviews Telephone by Ariana Reines, published by Wonder
#21 Spring - March 2010
Review