Listen To This
Neil Cooper explores a host of meditations and recent listenings on ‘the impossibility of silence’ unfolding through the past, present and uncertain future
Attention Economies
William Kherbek attends Glasgow International’s Digital Programme 23 April - 31 May 2020
Cottaging The Hedgerow: Part 2
A four part chronicle by Mathew Parkin, foraging queerness and rurality in recent artist moving image
THE TRAIN
Maria Howard recalls a train journey, a film and counterfeit memories of collective grief
ALCHEMY FILM FESTIVAL, LIVE
Alexander Storey-Gordon tuned into (and out of) the digital programme, 1-3 May 2020
LIONISING
Calum Sutherland reflects on Charlotte Prodger’s ‘SaF05’ and the lions of Venice during a trip to the Biennale in 2019
Cottaging The Hedgerow: Part 1
A four part chronicle by Mathew Parkin, foraging queerness and rurality in recent artist moving image
Different kinds of now
Anna Chapman Parker reads Funny Weather, Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing, Picador, London 2020
Why, They Call it Idlewild
Erica Scourti remotely reviews Helen Cammock’s exhibition ‘They Call It Idlewild’ at Wysing Arts Centre, affirming a vision where respecting the human need for downtime is a vital act of care.
Mardi Barrie and her transpositional quest
‘It is not women’s inferiority that has determined their historical insignificance: it is their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority.’ Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1949. Lauren Dyer Amazeen is drawn to the work of this Edinburgh artist
she didn’t paint the sea, after Joan Eardley
by Daisy Lafarge
Introduction
Susannah Thompson and Marianne Greated introduce a MAP mini series, part of their recently launched, ongoing project Women Painting: Scottish Art 1940-1980
TENANCY—May Day Parade: Clause iv
Shirking on Rented Space-Time by Nisha Ramayya
Books: Ron Mueck
By Robert Rosenblum, published by Fondation Cartier Pour L’Art Contemporain, 2006
#39 - July 2017
Review
this scattering of minds; like seeds
Kirsty Hendry responds to a film screening and Q&A with artist Sulaïman Majali at Transmission Gallery
O.K. Rick [Review]
Jenny Brownrigg responds to the Florrie James work screened in February at the Glasgow Film Festival.
Michael Fullerton: Triangulation Theory
Michael Fullerton’s oeuvre adds up to much more than the paintings so frequently associated with it. John Calcutt discovers a playfulness of thought and fascination for chemistry, and theories in general, in this strikingly inquisitive artist’s work
Elizabeth Ogilvie: Bodies of Water
DCA, Dundee, 16 December 2005-12 February 2006
Broadcast Yourself
28 February–5 April 2008, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle
GMA A40/2/20/23 A Ford advert. Fainted notes written on it. Illegible. (c1970s)
Neil Ogg responds to the idea of ‘footnoting the archive’ in relation to his recent role as Archivist at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
The Scottish Enlightenment: A Visual Culture
Murdo Macdonald looks back to a time when the visual arts connected organically with other activities to create a powerful expression of intellectual culture
Making Our Way
Anna McLauchlan navigates Shelter Stone: The Artist and the Mountain, a year-long public art project in the form of a newspaper
‘A Feminist Chorus’ voices at The Glasgow School of Art
The sound work installed in the Hen Run during Glasgow International 2014 is now online
Haris Epaminonda: Images in Search of Lost Time
Haris Epaminonda’s recent series of Polaroids dovetail reality and imagination. Isla Leaver-Yap investigates
Part 7: ‘Matter as a Hope of Finding Some Answers.’ LATVIA
‘Opening up even more, instead of closing in around national borders, should be the response.’ Curators Valentinas Klimašauskas and Inga Lāce continue our 15 part season.
The gatekeepers’ movements invent another language
Laura Edbrook’s text was written to accompany the video work ‘The End is the Beginning’
The Big Sneeze
Philomena Epps reviews Mika Rottenberg at Goldsmiths CCA, London, 6 September - 4 November 2018
Torsten Lauschmann: Play it Again
Elisa Kay discovers a spirit of personal adventure in the work of Glasgow based artist/inventor/producer Torsten Lauschmann
Ross Sinclair: Real Life Scenario
Artist, musician, painter of T-shirts and MDF, Ross Sinclair peels back the layers of his new work in conversation with Alice Bain
Emerging: Ruth Ewan
Ruth Hedges catches up with Ruth Ewan as her latest work hits London’s streets
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
Guy de Cointet
Giles Bailey meets Marie de Brugerolle to talk about the renewed interest in the avant-garde artist’s surreal performances