Index / Ideas and theory

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#39 - July 2017 Review

Fort! Da! notes toward an editorial

Daisy Lafarge introduces a new season of reviews
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#25 - July 2011

Mladen Stilinović Bookmaker and Sign Painter

Mary Rinebold re-examines the socio-political contexts of the pioneering bookmaker and artist  
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#25 - July 2011

Timeliness

Karen Archey questions art in the present tense
#25 - July 2011

Art as Metavocation

Sean Ashton explores the recent past to find answers on practice, product and participation
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#25 - July 2011

Remarks: Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth

The collaborators talk about their current fellowship and upcoming projects
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#25 - July 2011 Review

Activity: 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 Hutchison
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#26 - November 2012

Bogie from the Bridge

Roman Signer transmits from the river. Alice Bain picks up (and is translated from English to German)
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#26 - November 2012

Ivan: A Meditation on Three Objects

An essay in three parts by Perri Mackenzie
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#24 - November 2010

Report: Internet Art in the Present Tense

Karen Archey examines the rise, fall and rise of art and information technologies
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#24 - November 2010

Embedded Art and the Perils of Patronage

Former artist Sean Ashton strays into the realms of patronage—and gets more than he bargained for
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#23 Autumn - September 2010

Collaborative Research

Sam Ainsley, a member of AHM, discusses future plans for this artist trio
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#23 Autumn - September 2010

Goat 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 October
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#23 Autumn - September 2010

Simon 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 #22    
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#20 Winter - November 2009

Artist’s Page: Thomas Hirschhorn

‘Emotional Connections’, 2009
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#20 Winter - November 2009

Abstract Capitalist Realism

Alastair MacKinven reflects on his current practice 
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#20 Winter - November 2009

Residency: 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 Glasgow
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#20 Winter - November 2009

Performance and Pedagogy: All Talk, Some Action

Karen Archey sheds light on the rise of performance and pedagogy in contemporary art practice
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#19 Autumn - September 2009

Q&A: Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan

Mona Casey interviews Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan
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#19 Autumn - September 2009

Some Shifting Nuances of Destruction

Chris Sharp breaks down a few ideas on a practice that has become essential to contemporary art
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#19 Autumn - September 2009

Emerging: Lynn Hynd

Colin Perry enjoys the ‘pleasure of not knowing’ in the sculptural collage of this Glasgow-based artist
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#19 Autumn - September 2009

Remarks: 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 2010 
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#19 Autumn - September 2009

Etienne Chambaud: The Hole of the Matter

Joanna Fiduccia discovers the work of Etienne Chambaud is punctured with an element of surprise
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#19 Autumn - September 2009

Stephen 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’
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#19 Autumn - September 2009

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. 
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#19 Autumn - September 2009

Commission: Clunie Reid

Contemporary images expose the future in this new commission
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#18 Summer - June 2009

Counterpart

TJ Carlin talks to Leigh Ledare about personal subjectivity and its reception
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#18 Summer - June 2009

Who Wants a Pope?

Coline Milliard explores the pop world of the late Ray Johnson, founder of mail art & an artist currently receiving critical reappraisal
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#18 Summer - June 2009

Remarks: Art Under the Arches

Director Kendall Koppe introduces the new permanent space for artist-run gallery, Washington Garcia. 
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#18 Summer - June 2009

Remarks: Collective Recipes

Palermo-based artist Aleksandra Mir discusses her new book project. 
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#18 Summer - June 2009

Commission: Martin Boyce

The artist presents archival material related to new work for this year’s Venice Biennale 
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#18 Summer - June 2009

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 
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#17 Spring - March 2009

But to Go Back

Jenny Brownrigg looks at the meaning of monuments and memory in the work of Croatian artist David Maljkovic
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#17 Spring - March 2009

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
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#17 Spring - March 2009

Pundit & Poet

Rebecca Geldard peels back the layers of Raphael Danke’s collages and photographs to reveal surrealist connections and socio-political concerns
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#17 Spring - March 2009

Back 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 paper
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#17 Spring - March 2009

Emerging: Dan Rees

John Quin vs Dan Rees
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#17 Spring - March 2009

Hayley Tompkins: Hypothetically Seeing

Joanna Fiduccia visits Glasgow to meet Hayley Tompkins, in whose work she discovers abstraction of an extended, visionary nature
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#16 Winter - November 2008

Residency: Abraham Cruzvillegas

Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas spent six months at Cove Park this summer shaping an exhibition for Glasgow’s CCA. The result is Autoconstrucción
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#16 Winter - November 2008

Lara 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 Favaretto
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#16 Winter - November 2008

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
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#16 Winter - November 2008

Back Page: Dawood/Deora

FROM: DAWOOD/DEORA SUBJECT: RE: MAP BACK PAGE DATE: THU OCT 23 18:24 TO: MAP 
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#15 Autumn - September 2008

JG 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 Ballard
#15 Autumn - September 2008

Editorial: Issue 15, Autumn 2008

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#15 Autumn - September 2008

Residency: Maria and Natalia Petschatnikov

This Russian-born duo has a  joint practice that is inspired and driven by participation in residencies throughout Europe
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#15 Autumn - September 2008

Emerging: Carla Scott Fullerton

Susannah Thompson finds weighty concerns in the work of this young sculptor who is establishing a reputation in Glasgow and further afield
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#15 Autumn - September 2008

Report: Contemporary Art Writing and it’s environs

Maria Fusco dips into Art Writing definitions and comes up with her own ideas
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#13 Spring - March 2008 Reflection

Report: 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 century
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#13 Spring - March 2008

Torsten 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: MAP 
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#14 Summer - June 2008

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
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#14 Summer - June 2008

Scott Myles: Unlike Pairs

Lilian Haberer and Regina Barunke examine the histories and dichotomies in the work of Glasgow-based Scott Myles
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#9 - March 2007

The { } 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.
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#9 - March 2007

Roderick Buchanan and Thomas Muir

Duncan McLaren on a contemporary artist’s veneration for a victim of the Enlightenment
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#8 - November 2006

Journey 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 Scotland
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#8 - November 2006

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 …
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#11 Autumn - September 2007

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
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#11 Autumn - September 2007

Emerging: 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

Emerging: Catherine Street

Ruth Beal talks to an artist who offers ‘a glimpse through a velvet curtain’
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#10 - June 2007

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
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#10 - June 2007

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
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#16 Winter - November 2008 Review

John Latham

2 October–8 November, 2008, Flat Time House, London
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#16 Winter - November 2008 Review

Steve McQueen

10 September–23 November, 2008 Baltic, Gateshead  
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#16 Winter - November 2008 Review

Sterling Ruby

9 October–15 November, 2008, Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, London  
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#16 Winter - November 2008 Review

Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth

Elizabeth Grosz, £13, ISBN: 978-0-231-14518-3, www.cup.columbia.edu
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#19 Autumn - September 2009 Review

Aurélien Froment

9 July–16 August, 2009, Gasworks, London
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#20 Winter - November 2009 Review

Modernologies

23 September 2009–17 January 2010, MACBA, Barcelona
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#20 Winter - November 2009 Review

The Enlightenments

Various dates, August–October, 2009, Various venues, Edinburgh
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#17 Spring - March 2009 Review

The International Necronautical Society (INS) 17 January

17 January, Tate Britain, London
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#17 Spring - March 2009 Review

Simon Martin

28 November 2008–18 January 2009, Chisenhale, London
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#17 Spring - March 2009 Review

Graham Little

21 November–19 December, Alison Jacques Gallery, London
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#17 Spring - March 2009 Review

Charlie Hammond

6 November–20 December, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles
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#17 Spring - March 2009 Review

Nina Canell

10 October–24 December, Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin
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#18 Summer - June 2009 Review

Leonora Hennessy

21–28 February, Intermedia Gallery, Glasgow
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#18 Summer - June 2009 Review

Tonico Lemos Auad

13 March–18 April, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
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#23 Autumn - September 2010 Review

Ian White

17 July 2010, DAAD, Berlin
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#15 Autumn - September 2008 Review

Alan Michael

3 May–20 July 2008, Tate Britain, London
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#10 - June 2007 Review

Books: Utopia Deferred: Writings from Utopie ( 1967-1978)

Jean Baudrillard www.semiotexte.com ISBN 978-1-58435-033-0 £11.95
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#10 - June 2007 Review

Books: Kara Walker: My Compliment, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love

Edited by Michelle Piranio www.Hatjecantze.com ISBN 978-3-7757-1932-239
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#9 - March 2007 Review

Matthew Barney / Joseph Beuys

28 October 2006–12 January 2007, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
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#9 - March 2007 Review

Christine Borland

2 December 2006–28 January 2007, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
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#9 - March 2007 Review

Charles Avery, Charles Avery/ Keith Wilson

9 Ocotber–3 December 2006, Cubitt, London / 2 November–16 December 2006, Alexandre Pollazzon Ltd, London
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#9 - March 2007 Review

Peter Horobin

29 November–12 December 2006, University of Ulster, Belfast
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#9 - March 2007 Review

Graham Fagen

27 October–9 December, 2006, doggerfisher, Edinburgh
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#8 - November 2006 Review

Chris Burden

15 September–5 November 2006, South London Gallery and Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
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#7 - September 2006 Review

Dada’s Boys: Identity and Play in Contemporary Art

27 May–16 July 2006, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
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#18 Summer - June 2009 Review

Jonathan Horowitz

22 February–14 September, P.S.1, New York
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#43 - March 2018 Review

Infinite Resistance™

Eliel Jones on the healing potential of Interlocutor by Rachal Bradley, Gasworks, London, 25 January - 18 March