Index / Art Writing
AFTERWORD
Louise Briggs, curator of ‘The transparent tortoiseshell and the un-ripe umbrella’, provides an intimate insight into the thought process behind the show which takes place at Glasgow Sculpture Studios 23 January - 5 March 2016 and includes work by Eva Berendes, Stephanie Mann, Rallou Panagiotou, Vanessa Safavi and Samara Scott
It is this it is this, it is this
A Portrait of Margaret Tait. Transcript of ‘It is this it is this, it is this’, a performative video-essay by Laura Edbrook & Sarah Forrest
Voicing the Archive: Recording Session
Documentation of a recording session for the Voicing the Archive installation
It is this it is this, it is this: Documentation
Documentation of event at Glasgow Sculpture Studios, 11 June 2016
With a Certain Manner of Looking
Laura Edbrook—instructions for artwriting from the essays of Virginia Woolf
#37 - January 2016
In Conversation: Alice Bain, Laura Edbrook, Julia Wylie
Discussing MAP’s history, its identity as a publishing platform and digitised archive.
#37 - January 2016
edits-while-u-wait: Video Documentation
Video documentation of the second session of edits-while-u-wait, April 2015, ESW
#37 - January 2016
edits-while-u-wait
57 texts from ‘edits-while-u-wait’: the free editing service for artists’ writings aimed at exploring the role of the editor in contemporary art. Introduction by Claire Walsh
‘The transparent tortoiseshell and the un-ripe umbrella’: FOOTNOTES
The beginning of a series of footnotes to Glasgow Sculpture Studios’ new exhibition. Text by Louise Briggs
#37 - July 2016
Possiplex*
Aideen Doran reflects upon Ted Nelson’s Project Xanadu, a lost information future. Published as part of ‘Footnoting the Archive: Endnotes’
The confessional reading group
The first instalment of a series of ‘magical correspondences’ with MAP’s archive by Holly Pester
Choral
The second instalment of a series of ‘magical correspondences’ with MAP’s archive by Holly Pester
Geomancing Digital Material / Reading the MAP Archive Oracularly
Holly Pester introduces a series of ‘magical correspondences’ with MAP’s archive of past issues and content. Each instalment will be a projection that stories imagined potential from the archive data
Tomorrow is a Season: Search-Play-See
The third instalment of a series of ‘magical correspondences’ with MAP’s archive by Holly Pester
Out the Mouth
Past event. Join us on the west coast of Scotland, at a place between Loch Long and Gare Loch. A cove where the gnarled trees are covered in layers of lichen and moss. Saturday 30 September 2017. 4pm onwards. Cove Park, Peaton Hill, Argyll and Bute. An evening of readings—part of the MAP commission 2017 with Megan Rooney.
#34 - March 2015
Lover of Rock by Joanna Peace
Text developed as part of a MAP writers’ residency supported by Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland.
#28 - May 2013
In the Shadow of the Hand : Object 6a
‘Woman Crawling On Hands And Knees’ Virginia Hutchison responds to Sarah Forrest in the sixth segment of their project ‘In the Shadow of the Hand’. The collaboration can be witnessed on MAP as it unfolds
#28 - May 2013
In the Shadow of the Hand : Object 6b
‘The Idea’ Sarah Forrest responds in writing to Virginia Hutchison. Their collaboration ‘In the Shadow of the Hand’ continues on MAP
The gatekeepers’ movements invent another language
Laura Edbrook’s text was written to accompany the video work ‘The End is the Beginning’
#26 - November 2012
Not a Lighthouse
“She thought about deliberately reflecting a mistake, and what form this new mistake would take, and what this new mistake would mean” by Rebecca Wilcox
Sun Photographs
Ken Okiishi and Nick Mauss reflect on Zoe Leonard’s Sun Photographs
New Work Scotland
Collective Gallery director Kate Gray announces the gallery’s dynamic annual programme. Jacob Kerray / Shelly Nadashi 16 October–28 November. Nicolas Party / Catherine Payton 11 December 2010–30 January 2011
8fold
Ruth Höflich discusses her new occasional small press for limited editions and artists’ projects
Pablo Helguera: The Unanswerable
Karen Archey interviews New York-based artist & writer Pablo Helguera Pablo Helguera, ‘The School of Panamerican Unrest’, 2003-ongoing
Remarks: 2HB
Louise Shelley announces a new publishing project for innovative creative art writing, to be launched by CCA, Glasgow, in March.
Report: Contemporary Art Writing and it’s environs
Maria Fusco dips into Art Writing definitions and comes up with her own ideas
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
#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
Gest: Laboratory of Synthesis #1
Edited by Robert Garnett and Andrew Hunt, 2008
On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton
£25.95, ISBN 978-0-262-06276-3 http://mitpress.mit.edu
Novel - Issue One: Edited by Alun Rowlands and Matt Williams
ISBN 978-1- 906424-07-7, www.novelpublication.org
a woman is our happy issue
Nisha Ramayya on ‘Some Context’, Hannah Black’s solo exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery, London, 22 September - 10 December
The Engagement Party
Aniela Piasecka and Paloma Proudfoot share a text from their recent performance at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
Give Up Art
Rebecca O’Dwyer on Maria Fusco’s ‘exciting alongsidedness’ Give Up Art (2018), collected critical writings from 2002-2017, published by New Documents
Feasting on Words
Language gets swilled about, chopped and chewed, slid around, and spat out, ready to be eaten up again. Sara O’Brien reviews ‘Old Food’, a novel by Ed Atkins
BELLA
Hannah James responds to a year in conversation with artist Rosie O’Grady
Part 1: The Self-Illuminating Pen by Sarah Tripp
Guitar and Balloon is the first in a 5 part series. Sarah Tripp shines light on words past midnight in her ‘letters to the editor’ alongside video representations in collaboration with Isobel Lutz-Smith. Free pamphlet available
Tender a response
Editorial for a review-based series commissioned by editor-in-residence Sara O’Brien
YOU’VE GOT A NICE VOICE ACTUALLY, SCOTT
A review of Scott Caruth & Alex Hetherington’s joint exhibition Seen and Not Seen by Jess Higgins
Genealogy as a matter of tracking shots: Amie Siegel’s Bloodlines
by Dominic Paterson
Analogies
Enxhi Mandija responds to a speculative exhibition, sometime in Aberdeen. Works by Caitlin Dick and Phoebe McBride
Surface Tension
A review of Domestic Bliss, curated by Katie Bruce, by Rhian Williams