Jukebox Jive
Neil Cooper listens in to An Optimism Class: A Jukebox of People Trying to Change the World
‘Where did you emerge? What are the creatures like?’
Rhian Williams speaks to Ane Lopez about this year’s Femspectives programme
Intertitles
Fiona Glen reads a new collection, published this week. Quinn Latimer, Laure Prouvost, Charlotte Prodger and Fatema Abdoolcarim are among the 30 contributors
SECOND EDITION of the Self-Illuminating Pen by Sarah Tripp
Following the success of this writer’s notebook, we are delighted to announce a reprint with new cover artwork by Ciara Phillips
Archival engagements
A review of films showing at Essay Film Festival 2021, by Andrew Northrop
Contemporary art can be whatever it wants to be
Delimiting the politics of contemporary art (in relation to a three year long project at the Cooper Gallery, Dundee) by Colm Guo-Lin Peare
We Leave Together
Matt Turner views two films by Hong Kong Documentary Filmmakers
Drilling Through Hard Boards
Andrew Key reviews Frederick Wiseman’s City Hall (2020) at Glasgow Film Festival
CAST by Jamie Donald
A response to Sharon Hayes’ ‘Fingernails on a blackboard: Bella’ which was screened at the launch of the year long GIVE BIRTH TO ME TOMORROW—Artist Moving Image Festival 2021
Cinema of resistance
Anahit Behrooz reviews Mohammad Rasoulof’s ‘There is No Evil’ at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival
Ocean time
Rhian Williams reviews Minna Dufton’s Big vs. Small at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival
Report: Customising the New Monument
With the advent of exhibitions underscoring the instability of the monument in contemporary art, Isla Leaver-Yap asks what form monumentality takes in the 21st century
Haris Epaminonda: Images in Search of Lost Time
Haris Epaminonda’s recent series of Polaroids dovetail reality and imagination. Isla Leaver-Yap investigates
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?’
She says, my body contains blood baths. How will you care for it?
A response by Kiah Endelman Music to Louise Ahl’s Hevi Metle, a durational performance of six hours, six minutes and six seconds which draws on a feminist approach to alchemy. Made in collaboration with Australian choreographer Angela Goh, Glasgow-based artist Michelle Hannah and including an integrated touch tour by Edinburgh-based Juliana Capes, the work was first seen at Tramway, Glasgow and will be re-presented on 12 February 2020 at Baltic.
Helen McCrorie in conversation with Emmie McLuskey
‘Any object can be a toy to a young child. They don’t see boundaries in what you can play with and what you can’t… Play is serious work.’ McCrorie’s new film brings these facts into exquisite focus. Screening at Collective until 6 Oct 2019.
Remarks: SSW
Dr Nuno Sacramento talks about moving to the north of Scotland as director of Scottish Sculpture Workshop.
Hashtag: No More Boring Art
Artist and poet Annie Runkel remembers John Baldessari and teases the life out of boredom
Text for a willow
A willow was planted by the River Deveron, in the centre of a solid wood circular bench, near Huntly Aberdeenshire, 31 January 2020. Alice Bain reports from a distance
Chapter One
The first instalment of Out of Office Auto-Reply, a collaborative serial fiction project following the exploits of art critic Colin Clout
Focus: 6th Berlin Biennale For Contemporary Art
11 June–8 August, 2010, Various venues
Hayley Tompkins and Sue Tompkins
3 February–25 March 2007, Spike Island, Bristol
On Permeability and Companionship
Stephanie Mann writes in the second of a series of three artist responses to ‘Strangers’—a new book of essays by Rebecca Tamás, Makina Press, 2020
Stan Douglas
15 September 2007–6 January 2008, Staatsgalerie & Wurttembergischer Kunstverine, Stuttgart
The Restless Image
Philomena Epps on Rose Finn-Kelcey: Life, Belief and Beyond at Modern Art Oxford, 15 July - 15 October
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
#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).
Cathy Wilkes
16 April–8 June 2008, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes
In Conversation: Jonathan Horowitz
Steven Cairns talks to the artist about why he is drawn to reckless personalities, vegetarianism, the Holocaust and how art writes history
you, there, are you there? | MAP at Glasgow Film Festival 2020
Event over. A programme of short film, artist moving image and performance curated by Rosie Roberts and including work by Rhea Storr, Jessica Higgins, Alex Culshaw and Alison Scott. Wednesday, 4 March, 6pm. CCA Cinema
Luke Fowler & Charlie Hammond
19–24 January 2008, Buccleuch Street, Glasgow
MULTIPLEXING II
A text by Mike Sperlinger in collaboration with MULTIPLEXING, a cinema event originally presented in south London in 2014 and restaged in Glasgow on 21 March 2017. The programme celebrates the legacy of artist, performer, curator and writer, Ian White (1971-2013) through his influential teaching position with LUX
Gillian Wearing
24 March–10 June 2007, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento
Fatal Softness
Henry Broome reviews an exhibition by Pauline Batista and Madeleine Stack at The Koppel Project, London, 17 November 2017 – 6 January 2018
Quiet Heat: an Introduction
Dave Young introduces ‘Quiet Heat: Archive Machines and War Fever’. Commissioned as part of ‘Footnoting the Archive’, and produced using research conducted during a remote residency at the Artist Run Data Center, run by Servus in Linz, Austria, in late 2015. The extended text is hosted by the Artist Run Data Centre and accessible at quietheat.dvyng.com
Part 12: ‘Matter as a Hope of Finding Some Answers’ SERBIA
‘I am a European in a Brexit country, who curated a pavilion of a nation that is in the process of entering the EU but is not yet part of it.’ Response from curator Nicoletta Lambertucci continues our 15 part series.
Emerging: Carla Scott Fullerton
Susannah Thompson finds weighty concerns in the work of this young sculptor who is establishing a reputation in Glasgow and further afield