Gray Matters
To celebrate the brilliant life and work of Alasdair Gray, who died on 30 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.
Having failed to get a room in a static caravan: a fragment of a fragment
A dual account of a day at Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival 2019. Alison Scott and Rosie Roberts writing as again+again.
On Venus
Daniel Fountain reviews Patrick Staff’s new show at the Serpentine Galleries, 8 November 2019 to 9 February 2020
Beneath the Platform
William Kherbek reflects on the 10th Berlin Biennale, We Don’t Need Another Hero, 9 June - 9 September
Report: Exhibition by Commission
Jane Neal traces the path of a new phenomenon in British art: the meteoric rise of the public commission.
#11 Autumn - September 2007
Commission: Donald Urquhart
The artist known for his party attitude and black and white style, Donald Urquhart brings FOUR WOMEN out of his personal archive and creates a set of drawings, with accompanying text, especially for this issue of MAP
May all of your dreams come true
Anna McLauchlan experiences Ross Little’s ‘The Heavy of Your Body Parts and The Cool Air of the Air Condition’, the fourth commission in Collective’s Satellites programme
Chapter Three
The third instalment of Out of Office Auto-Reply by Eley Williams
Showstoppers
Calum Gardner responds to ‘Showstoppers - Silver Centrepieces’ at Temple Newsam House, Leeds, 13 May - 15 October
#21 Spring - March 2010
Dispatches from Ben Rivers on location for his forthcoming sci-fi project
Filmmaker Ben Rivers discusses his latest project, which has taken him to Lanzarote, Japan, New Zealand and Tuvalu
Double Vision
Timespan Gallery and Museum, Helmsdale 4-30 June and Australian Galleries, Collingwood 8-31 July, 2005
In Place of Hate
Jessica Ramm considers the results of Edmund Clark’s three-year residency at HMP Grendon, the UK’s only therapeutic prison. Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 6 December 2017 - 11 March 2018
Dundee: Moving Images from the Attic Archive
19 March–18 April, 2010, Cooper Gallery
Siren
Chris Watson BOOKSCAPES, 2006, £9.95 dp003: converse without leaving home Various contributors DISCPARC, DCA, 2006, £4
Simon Starling
13 December 2008–31 October, 2010, Sol LeWitt through 2033 MASS MoCA, Boston
Conversations
27 September–16 November, 2008, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
Report: What is ‘Public’ in Public Art?
Christophe Gallois on the Site-Specific
#37 - July 2016
Endnotes: On Social Reproduction
Endnotes to Victoria Horne’s essay ‘The Weight of History’ published as part of ‘Footnoting the Archive: Endnotes’
Emerging: Maria Pires
We introduce two pairs of artists who attracted attention at the Edinburgh Art Festival 2006; and two individual artists who are making a visible mark on the landscape of environmental art
Residency: Jordan Baseman
Ilsa Colsell discovers power and honesty in the films of Jordan Baseman
#13 Spring - March 2008
Back Page: Donelle Woolford
FROM: DONELLE WOOLFORD, SUBJECT: DOUBLE AGENT, ICA, LONDON, TO: MAP
Sterling Ruby
9 October–15 November, 2008, Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, London
Hans Ulrich Obrist interviews Emily Wardill
Curator Hans Ulrich Obrist talks to Emily Wardill about her enigmatic film work
A Well-Cultivated Garden
Duncan McLaren visits a Glasgow show that seems custom-made for this Enlightenment issue
#31 - April 2014
MAP Reading Group
‘Sick Sick Sick’ : The Books of Ornery Women
A reading project examining a radical or ‘bludgeoned’ subjectivity of female writers | Session Four
Penetrate: Translate reading group
Session Four. NOW OVER. Ban en Banlieue by Bhanu Kapil. CCA, Monday 25 November, 6.30pm
Remarks: SSW
Dr Nuno Sacramento talks about moving to the north of Scotland as director of Scottish Sculpture Workshop.