A Year of Carte Blanche & Other Chimeras
Critical, Criminal, Cri-de-cœur-ish
Continuing her project A Year of Carte Blanche and Other Chimeras, MAP editor Daniela Cascella responds to last month’s contribution by Sharon Kivland
Performance & Energy: 2nd Invitation from Good on Paper
Over six months, Gordon Douglas & Cicely Farrer share a series of invitations looking into the futures of performance art making in Scotland. The second letter invites readers to attend an online workshop Sunday 29 May 2022 from 11am-1pm
Thermal
Appendix 4 of Good on Paper’s second invitation to join a workshop on Performance & Energy
Spiritual
Appendix 3 of Good on Paper’s second invitation to join a workshop on Performance & Energy
Potential
Appendix 2 of Good on Paper’s second invitation to join a workshop on Performance & Energy
Kinetic
Appendix 1 of Good on Paper’s second invitation to join a workshop on Performance & Energy
A Year of Carte Blanche & Other Chimeras
The Librarian of the World, Part 2
by Jessica Sequeira
A Year of Carte Blanche & Other Chimeras
The Librarian of the World, Part 1
by Jessica Sequeira
Time: A Single Basic Fact
Sarah Long visits Ailbhe Ní Bhriain’s An Experiment with Time at CCA, Glasgow
A Year of Carte Blanche & Other Chimeras
Writing that Walks Across the Tops of the Trees
Continuing her project A Year of Carte Blanche, MAP editor Daniela Cascella responds to last month’s contributions by Saudamini Deo
Bite The Hand That Feeds You
Rose Higham-Stainton considers forms of domestication and care as control in the work of Yalda Afsah at Kunstverein München
Fluid Systems
Alice Hill-Woods reviews a collection of poems that ‘understand the quiet, polychromatic force of being seen’
Room for Folds
Sara O’Brien engages with the At Practise programme hosted by David Dale Gallery, Glasgow
To Entertain
Appendix 4 of Good on Paper’s first invitation to readers to join the Performance & Language workshop
To Compose
Appendix 3 of Good on Paper’s first invitation to readers to join the Performance & Language workshop
A golden interweaving link
Anna McLauchlan visits the D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum, Dundee
CRYSTALLINE CHRYSALIS CRISIS
David Upton reports on a dissident takeover of Summerhall’s basement by artist and musician Fritz Welch
Journey Two: Tours
Continuing his series of artistic wanderings especially for MAP, Duncan McLaren takes off to France to climb a mountain of the imagination—despite the language barrier
We Leave Together
Matt Turner views two films by Hong Kong Documentary Filmmakers
Books: Ron Mueck
By Robert Rosenblum, published by Fondation Cartier Pour L’Art Contemporain, 2006
In the Shadow of the Hand : Object 5a
‘Object Removed’ A collaborative project by Sarah Forrest and Virginia Hutchison
Emerging: Laura Aldridge
Francis McKee looks at the work of Laura Aldridge
Report
Tim Abrahams investigates art world activity and goes head to head with the national collectors of art
#5 - January 2006
Commission: Clara Ursitti
Clara Ursitti is an artist based Glasgow who has recently exhibited at Tramway, Glasgow and Galleri 54, Gothenburg, Sweden. She has an upcoming exhibition at CB Studios, New York. (This entry will be completed online by July 2016).
Cyprien Gaillard: Recycling the Ruins
Cyprien Gaillard recently witnessed the destruction of high rise buildings in Glasgow: acute observations of this are the subject of his new work. Joanna Fiduccia talks to him about his practice and the death and decay of modernism in urban architecture
Beyond the God’s Eye, Cian Dayrit
NOME, Berlin, 27 Apr-12 Jun, 2019. Review by William Kherbek
Emerging: Lynn Hynd
Colin Perry enjoys the ‘pleasure of not knowing’ in the sculptural collage of this Glasgow-based artist
Who Wants a Pope?
Coline Milliard explores the pop world of the late Ray Johnson, founder of mail art & an artist currently receiving critical reappraisal
Ian Hamilton Finlay
In these extracts from his eulogy read at Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh, Alec Finlay remembers his father, the artist, poet, philosopher and gardener Ian Hamilton Finlay
#13 Spring - March 2008
Wilhelm Sasnal: Deluxe Punk
‘You are telling me things, but what do you actually mean by that? Whats your point? Lukasz Ronduda digs deep into the work of Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal
ALCHEMY FILM FESTIVAL, LIVE
Alexander Storey-Gordon tuned into (and out of) the digital programme, 1-3 May 2020
Remarks
Katrina Brown on Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art,Kathrin Rhomberg on the 6th Berlin Biennale,Josh Brand on the Whitney Biennial, New York,Polly Staple on 21st Century at Chisenhale Gallery, London,Deirdre MacKenna on Stills residencies in Edinburgh
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
Hobbyhorses: On Maggie Nelson
Christopher Law considers On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint (2021)
Emerging: Phoebe Unwin
Rebecca Geldard discovers a savvy painter whose clever balance of good and bad taste is propelling her towards success
Emerging: Alex Gross
An element of failure is crucial to the development of this young artist’s strategy. John Calcutt gets to grips with his liberating style
Jock McFadyen
10 August–2 September 2007, The Grey Gallery, Edinburgh