Index / Essay
I, THE OTHER, THE SPACE BETWEEN: READING IN THE DARK
Essay by Suzanne van der Lingen
Lisa Oppenheim: Accidental Networks
Artist Lisa Oppenheim examines rhizomatic research in this MAP artist text
The Engagement Party
Aniela Piasecka and Paloma Proudfoot share a text from their recent performance at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
Eyes on the Street
New writing from Martin Cathcart Froden on carceral architecture, satellite mapping, knitting in prison, shark species and the correct spelling of ‘dyslexia’
We Who Are About To… Introduction
Project curator Deborah Jackson invites a reimagining of the future
“More generous and more suspicious”
Anna Bunting Branch examines Feminist SF as a worldbuilding practice
Xenofeminist Ecologies
(Re)producing Futures Without Reproductive Futurity by Helen Hester (Laboria Cuboniks) philosopher
Mostly No
Sarah Bernstein reflects on solitary women in the fiction of Muriel Spark
Survival Kit
An essay by Olivia Scott-Berry in response to The Land+The People, reflecting on deep time, eerie geology and methods of bearing witness
a weakness for raisins
Ahead of an exhibition of Ester Krumbachová’s films and archive at CCA, Francis Mckee introduces the life and work of this key figure in Czech New Wave cinema
Dark Chambers, Fever Dreams: Artists’ Moving Image and the Gothic Landscape
An essay by Marcus Jack
an almost obsolete species
Felix Bazalgette unpicks a major exhibition of Anni Albers’ work at Tate Modern, London, 11 October 2018 - 27 January 2019
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.
A golden interweaving link
Anna McLauchlan visits the D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum, Dundee
A Maggot - For Freda
Kirsty Hendry considers ‘the flimsy layer that separates one body from another’, as we re-publish her 2018 essay
Seizing the means of projection
Marcus Jack considers thirty years of artists’ moving image exhibition in Glasgow
Some Proximity
Text meets the linguistically ambiguous moving body in Jonathan P. Watts’ reflection on his working relationship with dance artist Adam Linder, the space of criticism and the choreography of contemporary art spaces
Demystification Through Participation
Theo Carnegy-Tan considers Ruth Beale’s call to engage, belong, and re-common the commons
The desktop: a place where writing happens
Rebecca Gill scrolls through the desktop’s pleasantly tenuous invasive implications and the intimacy of the gaze
Poetry at Large: The poetic and archival practice of Paula Claire
Greg Thomas reviews the artist’s publications ‘Paula Claire, fromWORDtoART: Browsing the Paula Claire Archive; International PoetArtists’ and ‘WordsWorkWonders’
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
‘I wasn’t looking back, we could hardly see ahead.’ The Chileans who came to Hull
Tom White explores the relationship between Chilean refugees and Hull in the 1970s
The intimate boundaries of Istanbul
Helen Mackreath explores the city through three films