Tone Poems
A series of vignettes on animals in cinema and moving image by Suzanne van der Lingen
Dorothea Tanning: A Canine State of Mind
Natalie Ferris on the artist’s retrospective at Tate Modern and communion with the animal world
I to I
Part two of a correspondence between Daisy Hildyard and Tom Jeffreys, on the politics of pronouns and how ‘we’ might include nonhuman life
How to talk with birds, trees, fish, shells, snakes, bulls and lions
William Kherbek reviews a group exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, 16 November 2018 - 12 May 2019
I to I
Part one of a correspondence between Daisy Hildyard and Tom Jeffreys, on the politics of pronouns and how ‘we’ might include nonhuman life
Gardenlust #5: You Never Promised Me A Rose Garden
A monthly column by Isabella Streffen
A Dream of Linnaeus’ Daughter
Phoebe Blatton on two recent exhibitions in Berlin: Navigating Polarities by Marjolijn Dijkman at Nome, and A Dream of Linnaeus’ Daughter by Katarzyna Kozyra at Żak|Branicka
The Elegance of the Octopus
Tom Jeffreys reviews Strange Foreign Bodies, a group show at The Hunterian, Glasgow, 28 September 2018 - 10 February 2019
Couldn’t we just bee?
Editorial: an animal-themed season of reviews and features
Hated Sexuality and Pinochet Porn
Georgia Horgan writes about the work of the late Ellen Cantor and this uncompromising artist’s take on the role of the ‘straight’ woman.
What moves you?
Rebecca O’Dwyer reports on Transmediale, Berlin, 31 Jan - 3 Feb
Pinochet Porn — Ellen Cantor’s dark feature at Glasgow Film Festival 2019
A MAP screening curated by artist Georgia Horgan
Crone Music
Philomena Epps reviews Beatrice Gibson at Camden Arts Centre, London, 18 January - 31 March
The Ignorant Curator
Katy Bentham visits Festival of the Not by Giles Bailey & CIRCA Projects, Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne, 17 - 20 January
#32 - September 2014
MAP at Platform
‘A Feminist Chorus’ film screening during 21 Revolutions exhibition at Platform, Glasgow, 7 November—7 December, 2014
#37 - July 2016
a childish tune plays a keyboard anthem
A footnote by Aniela Piasecka to ‘Made to be Broken’, a collaboration with Paloma Proudfoot presented as part of Platform: 2016 at Edinburgh Art Festival
Back Page: Juliette Blightman
Dear Juliette We would like to invite you to write about the view from a window and whatever associated thoughts are inspired by it. We heard you are a bit of an avid rear-window photographer and thought this small project would go well with the domestic-space thematic inherent in your practice.Best, MAP
Books: The Garden of Cosmic Speculation
By Charles Jencks, published by Frances Lincoln, March 2005
Christine Borland
2 December 2006–28 January 2007, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
#25 - July 2011
Art as Metavocation
Sean Ashton explores the recent past to find answers on practice, product and participation
The Gingerbread House
Third in a series of dark fairy tales by Ester Krumbachová, published in conjunction with the exhibition and film programme of the Czech artist’s work at CCA Glasgow.
‘A Feminist Chorus’ by Lucy Reynolds, curated by MAP
Glasgow International: ‘A Feminist Chorus’, one film, two sound works and a performance, spanning three venues, 5—21 April, Glasgow Women’s Library, Glasgow School of Art & 5 Blythswood Square
Matthieu Laurette
1 January–31 December, 2008 Blow de la Barra, London
Remarks: New Films In The Making
Steven Bode, director of The Film and Video Umbrella discusses the history of the organisation and some upcoming commission.
Wanderlust
Dominik Czechowski reviews Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, Journeys 1967-2017 at UB Art Galleries, New York, 7 September - 31 December 2017, touring to the Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, 17 February - 13 May 2018
Jacqueline Donachie and Darren Monckton: Tomorrow Belongs to Me
HUNTERIAN MUSEUM 9 JUN–2 SEP, 2006, Glasgow
Residency Silberkuppe
MAP talks to Berlin art space Silberkuppe about space and strategy
Obituary: Steven Campbell
Artist, born 19 March 1953, died 15 August 2007
David Shrigley: Top Drawer
David Shrigley is astonishingly prolific. Outside the mainstream, but embraced by it, he makes T-shirts and posters, but is also bought by the Tate. Neil Cooper visits him in his Glasgow studio and finds the man very much like his work.
Semina Culture: Wallace Berman and His Circle
16 January–31 March 2007, Grey Art Gallery, New York University
Whitney Biennial 2008 / Judy Chicago
6 March–1 June 2008, Whitney Museum of American Art / Long-term installation, Brooklyn Museum, New York
Report
Tim Abrahams investigates art world activity and goes head to head with the national collectors of art
Gardenlust #4: The Persephone Complex
A monthly column by Isabella Streffen
#4 - December 2005
Review
Edinburgh Art Festival and Annuale 2005
Various venues citywide during August 2005
Activity: Edited by Pedro Barateiro, Christoph Keller, Ricardo Valentim
JRP Ringier/Christoph Keller Editions, 2011, ISBN: 978-3-03764-161-3
An upside down triangle with a two-headed arrow between the top two apexes. In the middle of this arrow, a dotted line with ‘SOCIAL’ written on one side and ‘SEXUAL’ on the other
Fourth in a series of research texts by Gordon Douglas reporting on encounters with collaborative practice in Japan
Moving Images from the Attic Archive
19 March–18 April, 2010, Cooper Gallery, Dundee
a new thread, wayward
Rebecca Wilcox responds to Virginia Woolf: an exhibition inspired by her writings at Tate St Ives, 10 February - 29 April
‘A Murderous Fury’
Felix Bazalgette on the politics and protest behind Art and Space at the Guggenheim Bilbao, 5 December 2017 - 18 April 2018