Index / Ideas and theory
Fort! Da! notes toward an editorial
Daisy Lafarge introduces a new season of reviewsMladen Stilinović Bookmaker and Sign Painter
Mary Rinebold re-examines the socio-political contexts of the pioneering bookmaker and artist
#25 - July 2011
Art as Metavocation
Sean Ashton explores the recent past to find answers on practice, product and participationRemarks: Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth
The collaborators talk about their current fellowship and upcoming projectsActivity: Edited by Pedro Barateiro, Christoph Keller, Ricardo Valentim
JRP Ringier/Christoph Keller Editions, 2011, ISBN: 978-3-03764-161-3
#28 - February 2013
In the Shadow of the Hand : Object 4a
A collaborative project by Sarah Forrest and Virginia Hutchison
#28 - February 2013
In the Shadow of the Hand : Object 4b
A collaborative project by Sarah Forrest and Virginia HutchisonBogie from the Bridge
Roman Signer transmits from the river. Alice Bain picks up (and is translated from English to German)Report: Internet Art in the Present Tense
Karen Archey examines the rise, fall and rise of art and information technologiesEmbedded Art and the Perils of Patronage
Former artist Sean Ashton strays into the realms of patronage—and gets more than he bargained forCollaborative Research
Sam Ainsley, a member of AHM, discusses future plans for this artist trioGoat in the Basment
Artist Stephan Dillemuth talks to MAP about his month-long residency at Transmission Gallery in Glasgow Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, 27 September–9 OctoberSimon Dybbroe Møller: The Game of Rules
Dorothée Brill investigates a contradictory practice of rules and rebellion
#23 Autumn - September 2010
Response: Bullshit and Art’s ‘Discursive Turn’
Sean Ashton responds to Joanna Fiduccia’s provocative report on bullshit in MAP #22Abstract Capitalist Realism
Alastair MacKinven reflects on his current practiceResidency: Bik van der Pol
John Calcutt talks to Rotterdam duo Bik Van der Pol about taking the collaborative route during their stay at Cove Park near GlasgowPerformance and Pedagogy: All Talk, Some Action
Karen Archey sheds light on the rise of performance and pedagogy in contemporary art practiceQ&A: Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan
Mona Casey interviews Joanne Tatham & Tom O’SullivanSome Shifting Nuances of Destruction
Chris Sharp breaks down a few ideas on a practice that has become essential to contemporary artEmerging: Lynn Hynd
Colin Perry enjoys the ‘pleasure of not knowing’ in the sculptural collage of this Glasgow-based artistRemarks: Read-Out! Read-In!
Faith Wilding and Kate Davis are working towards a two-woman discursive exhibition project with CCA, Glasgow, entitled ‘The Long Loch: How Do We Go On From Here?’, commissioned for Glasgow international, April 2010Etienne Chambaud: The Hole of the Matter
Joanna Fiduccia discovers the work of Etienne Chambaud is punctured with an element of surpriseStephen Sutcliffe: Come to the Edge
Manipulating original broadcast material from his personal archive, Stephen Sutcliffe creates ‘surfaces which become the site of much-contested truth’. Michelle Cotton investigates these subtle ‘video collages’Remarks: New Films In The Making
Steven Bode, director of The Film and Video Umbrella discusses the history of the organisation and some upcoming commission.Commission: Clunie Reid
Contemporary images expose the future in this new commissionCounterpart
TJ Carlin talks to Leigh Ledare about personal subjectivity and its receptionWho Wants a Pope?
Coline Milliard explores the pop world of the late Ray Johnson, founder of mail art & an artist currently receiving critical reappraisalRemarks: Art Under the Arches
Director Kendall Koppe introduces the new permanent space for artist-run gallery, Washington Garcia.Remarks: Collective Recipes
Palermo-based artist Aleksandra Mir discusses her new book project.Commission: Martin Boyce
The artist presents archival material related to new work for this year’s Venice BiennaleBetween the Furnace and the Figure
Fiona Jardine responds to Our Objects: Contemporary Ceramics in Context, a challenging exhibition at the Glasgow School of ArtBut to Go Back
Jenny Brownrigg looks at the meaning of monuments and memory in the work of Croatian artist David MaljkovicBelief Systems
Alessandro Rabottini connects with the complex installations of Pietro Roccasalva, taking a mind-boggling journey through the many narratives of this artist’s workPundit & Poet
Rebecca Geldard peels back the layers of Raphael Danke’s collages and photographs to reveal surrealist connections and socio-political concernsBack In To It
Darren Rhymes puts words together with new ‘Write Ups’ made for these pages by Sue Tompkins, an artist known for her performance and works on paperHayley Tompkins: Hypothetically Seeing
Joanna Fiduccia visits Glasgow to meet Hayley Tompkins, in whose work she discovers abstraction of an extended, visionary natureResidency: Abraham Cruzvillegas
Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas spent six months at Cove Park this summer shaping an exhibition for Glasgow’s CCA. The result is AutoconstrucciónLara Favaretto: The End of Motion
Alessandro Rabottini discovers a rich seam of functional and philosophical investigation in the moving and constantly shifting work of Italian artist Lara FavarettoMichael 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 workBack Page: Dawood/Deora
FROM: DAWOOD/DEORA SUBJECT: RE: MAP BACK PAGE DATE: THU OCT 23 18:24 TO: MAPJG Ballard: Atrocity Exhibition
Sean Ashton explores the disjunction of art and aesthetics using the signposts provided by Zodiac 3000 and the metafictional writings of JG BallardResidency: Maria and Natalia Petschatnikov
This Russian-born duo has a joint practice that is inspired and driven by participation in residencies throughout EuropeEmerging: Carla Scott Fullerton
Susannah Thompson finds weighty concerns in the work of this young sculptor who is establishing a reputation in Glasgow and further afieldReport: Contemporary Art Writing and it’s environs
Maria Fusco dips into Art Writing definitions and comes up with her own ideasReport: 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 centuryTorsten Lauschmann: Play it Again
Elisa Kay discovers a spirit of personal adventure in the work of Glasgow based artist/inventor/producer Torsten Lauschmann
#13 Spring - March 2008
Back Page: Donelle Woolford
FROM: DONELLE WOOLFORD, SUBJECT: DOUBLE AGENT, ICA, LONDON, TO: MAPHenrik 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 workScott Myles: Unlike Pairs
Lilian Haberer and Regina Barunke examine the histories and dichotomies in the work of Glasgow-based Scott MylesThe { } Age: Alistair Gentry on the Enlightenment
Pamphleteers of the 18th century didn’t mince their words. And neither does Alistair Gentry, writer and artist, here speaking out on the idea of Enlightenment.Roderick Buchanan and Thomas Muir
Duncan McLaren on a contemporary artist’s veneration for a victim of the EnlightenmentJourney Eight: Nürnberg
In his latest voyage for MAP, Duncan McLaren follows artist Nicola Atkinson-Davidson to Germany, where she spent the long, hot summer holding up a mirror to the west of ScotlandJacqueline 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 …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 debatesEmerging: Laura Aldridge
Francis McKee looks at the work of Laura Aldridge
#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
#10 - June 2007