Index / Historical
To Those in Search of Immunity
Last in a series of responses to Edinburgh Art Festival, Gordon Douglas takes the latest of Collective’s ‘Oberservers’ Walks’ by Patrick Staff, engaging with Calton Hill’s botanical, queer and historical entanglements 27 July - 27 August
Plant Scenery of the World
Third in a series of responses to Edinburgh Art Festival, Catriona Gallagher visits Inverleith House’s new exhibition ‘Plant Scenery of the World’ 27 July - 29 October
Nudes Never Wear Glasses
First in a series of responses to Edinburgh Art Festival, Victoria Horne reviews Kate Davis’ solo exhibition at Stills 28 July - 8 October
Challenge to Fascism: Glasgow’s May Day (1938)
Jenny Brownrigg and Shona Main write about Helen Biggar’s final film
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
NVA
Angus Farquhar, creative director of Glasgow-based public art agency NVA, looks to secure the future of the abandoned, yet inspirational, St Peter’s Seminary
#24 - November 2010
Emerging: Patrizio Di Massimo
Rebecca Geldard looks at the work of this young Italian artist
The Devil Makes Work
Fiona Jardine examines the relationship between art and the everyday world of work Nine Trades of Dundee, 1 July–31 October
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
Emerging: Corin Sworn
Isla Leaver-Yap examines radical narratives in Corin Sworn’s practice
Performance and Pedagogy: All Talk, Some Action
Karen Archey sheds light on the rise of performance and pedagogy in contemporary art practice
Production: Anja Kirschner & David Panos
Steven Cairns gets to the bottom of ‘The Last Days of Jack Sheppard’, a film based on inferred prison encounters between the eponomous 18th century criminal and Daniel Defoe, ghostwriter of Sheppard’s ‘autobiography’
Report: Rediscoveries & De-marginalisations
Chris Sharp delves into the practices of artists whose reputations have been lost & now found
Commission: Martin Boyce
The artist presents archival material related to new work for this year’s Venice Biennale
Between the Furnace and the Figure
Fiona Jardine responds to Our Objects: Contemporary Ceramics in Context, a challenging exhibition at the Glasgow School of Art
Belief Systems
Alessandro Rabottini connects with the complex installations of Pietro Roccasalva, taking a mind-boggling journey through the many narratives of this artist’s work
Michael Fullerton: Triangulation Theory
Michael Fullerton’s oeuvre adds up to much more than the paintings so frequently associated with it. John Calcutt discovers a playfulness of thought and fascination for chemistry, and theories in general, in this strikingly inquisitive artist’s work
Roderick Buchanan and Thomas Muir
Duncan McLaren on a contemporary artist’s veneration for a victim of the Enlightenment
#9 - March 2007
Tatham and O’Sullivan: House of Enlightenment
MAP’s guest editor relishes Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan’s interventions at Newhailes House
#10 - June 2007
Gustav Metzger: Revolutionary Constructions
Gustav Metzger in conversation with international curator Hans Ulrich Obrist reveals a visionary spirit active both politically and artistically across nearly seven decades. With a busy year ahead, Metzger is preparing to show at skulptur projecte munster
Lucy Skaer: Drawing Close
Glasgow-based artist Lucy Skaer is interested in fictions and histories. Highly articulate in the medium of drawing, she also makes films and installation and installations with charged imagination. Here, she is in conversation with Isla Leaver-Yap
Kate Davis: Could we? I am asking
John Calcutt finds the work of Kate Davis complex, subtle, powerful and bravely questioning of gender perspectives. Born in New Zeland, and now resident in Glasgow, Davis is attracting increasing international recognition
Gorbals
Ruth Hedges rediscovers the photographs of her father Nick Hedges and visits the Gorbals in Glasgow, an area which he documented in the 60s, to find art on the streets
#2 - May 2005
Bulletin
A round-up of journeys, events and spaces. Contact Jess Dolan with details of new projects, residencies or opportunities.
David Bellingham
13 September–14 October, 2008, The Changing Room, Stirling
Silke Otto-Knapp
4 July–13 September, 2009, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford
Mathilde ter Heijne
20 September–8 November, 2009, SMBA, Amsterdam
Graham Little
21 November–19 December, Alison Jacques Gallery, London
The Long Dark
17 July–19 September 2010, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
#23 Autumn - September 2010
Review
The Potosí Principle
12 May–6 September 2010, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Ross Sinclair versus Sir Edwin Landseer
13 January–9 April 2007, Aberdeen Art Gallery
The Four
19 August–23 September 2006, Collins Galery, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
East Art Map: Contemporary Art and Eastern Europe
Edited by IRWIN AFTERALL BOOKS, 2006, £24.95