Index / Essay
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
The orphans of a GENERATION
Preserving the legacy of Margaret Tait. Essay by Sarah Neely
Thank you for writing to me so often, you are revealing yourself to me in the only way you can
Laura Edbrook reflects on the reading and discussion group ‘Sick Sick Sick: The Books of Ornery Women’ co-run with Emma Balkind and presented by MAP between autumn 2013 and autumn 2014. ‘Sick Sick Sick’ was an open reading project based online and at the CCA, Glasgow and examined a radical or ‘bludgeoned’ subjectivity of female writers
SEEING SCOTLAND: Gazes and Articulations
Essay by Tiffany Boyle, writing for Mother Tongue
I, THE OTHER, THE SPACE BETWEEN: READING IN THE DARK
Essay by Suzanne van der Lingen
#28 - February 2013
The Objects: Chapter Two
Kyla McDonald engages with the importance of the moving image and photography as a way of capturing the ‘object’ in an increasingly fast-moving and changing age
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
#37 - July 2016
Notes on The Miraculous at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop [1]
Peter Amoore expands on ‘The Miraculous’ at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. Essay published as part of ‘Footnoting the Archive: Endnotes’. Includes comments by Raphael Rubinstein.
Voicing the Silences
Essay by Sarah Neely just published in A Feminist Chorus, an 80 page risograph printed bookwork. Purchase from info@mapmagazine.
Notes on Contemporary Art and Anthropology
Part 2: Conjuring the State. An essay by Angela McClanahan
Notes on Contemporary Art and Anthropology
Part 1: Magic, Value, Gifts and Scams. An essay by Angela McClanahan
In Celebration of Grassroots and Grass Widows: Women’s Art Collaborations in Glasgow
An essay by Sarah Smith
Report: Rediscoveries & De-marginalisations
Chris Sharp delves into the practices of artists whose reputations have been lost & now found
Emerging: Peter Simensky
Mary Rinebold discovers the value of Neutral Capital in the investigative practice of this American artist
Report: Exhibition by Commission
Jane Neal traces the path of a new phenomenon in British art: the meteoric rise of the public commission.
Henrik Olesen: Oblique Vision
Working within the boundaries of gender, art history and sexual politics, Henrik Olesen creates a complex aesthetic with philosophical tendencies. Curator Alessandro Rabottini unravels a powerful method in this artist’s enigmatic work
Scott Myles: Unlike Pairs
Lilian Haberer and Regina Barunke examine the histories and dichotomies in the work of Glasgow-based Scott Myles
Report: Expanded Cinema: Time/Space/Structure
Luke Fowler reports on the history of expanded cinema
Roderick Buchanan and Thomas Muir
Duncan McLaren on a contemporary artist’s veneration for a victim of the Enlightenment
Jacqueline Donachie / Christine Borland: The Doctor will see you now.
John Calcutt examines the role of the artist in a medical vein, taking the work of Jacqueline Donachie and Christine Borland as his guide. He opens with two very different tales …
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.
John Latham: Incidental Person
Craig Richardson opens up an important legacy left by the late John Latham, the influential conceptual artist. The nature of West Lothian’s oil shale bings, whether art, monument or heritage, are a reminder of his continuing, pothumous role in current environmental and aesthetic debates
Carol Rhodes, Lucy McKenzie: Paint
Despite attempts to consign it to an early grave, painting remains a vibrant force in contemporary art. Sherman Sam explores the detached landscapes of Carol Rhodes. Barry Schwabsky analyses the mood of familiar strangeness that marks the work of Lucy McKenzie
Report: Can Video Thrive as a Marginal Activity?
Isla Leaver-Yap reports on the state of video art in Scotland
Books: documenta 12 magazine No. 1: Modernity?
Georg Schöllhammer, Roger M Buergel, Ruth Noack www.taschen.com ISBN 978-3-8228-1532-8 German/English £10
Prison Landscapes
An excerpt from Hatty Nestor’s forthcoming book on portraits of the incarcerated
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 Year of Carte Blanche & Other Chimeras