Index / Ideas and theory
Fort! Da! notes toward an editorial
Daisy Lafarge introduces a new season of reviews
Mladen 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 participation
Remarks: Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth
The collaborators talk about their current fellowship and upcoming projects
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
Bogie 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 technologies
Embedded Art and the Perils of Patronage
Former artist Sean Ashton strays into the realms of patronage—and gets more than he bargained for
Collaborative Research
Sam Ainsley, a member of AHM, discusses future plans for this artist trio
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
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
Abstract Capitalist Realism
Alastair MacKinven reflects on his current practice
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
Performance and Pedagogy: All Talk, Some Action
Karen Archey sheds light on the rise of performance and pedagogy in contemporary art practice
Q&A: Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan
Mona Casey interviews Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan
Some Shifting Nuances of Destruction
Chris Sharp breaks down a few ideas on a practice that has become essential to contemporary art
Emerging: Lynn Hynd
Colin Perry enjoys the ‘pleasure of not knowing’ in the sculptural collage of this Glasgow-based artist
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
Etienne Chambaud: The Hole of the Matter
Joanna Fiduccia discovers the work of Etienne Chambaud is punctured with an element of surprise
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’
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 commission
Counterpart
TJ Carlin talks to Leigh Ledare about personal subjectivity and its reception
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
Remarks: 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 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
But to Go Back
Jenny Brownrigg looks at the meaning of monuments and memory in the work of Croatian artist David Maljkovic
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
Pundit & Poet
Rebecca Geldard peels back the layers of Raphael Danke’s collages and photographs to reveal surrealist connections and socio-political concerns
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
Hayley Tompkins: Hypothetically Seeing
Joanna Fiduccia visits Glasgow to meet Hayley Tompkins, in whose work she discovers abstraction of an extended, visionary nature
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
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
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
Back Page: Dawood/Deora
FROM: DAWOOD/DEORA SUBJECT: RE: MAP BACK PAGE DATE: THU OCT 23 18:24 TO: MAP
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
Residency: Maria and Natalia Petschatnikov
This Russian-born duo has a joint practice that is inspired and driven by participation in residencies throughout Europe
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
Report: Contemporary Art Writing and it’s environs
Maria Fusco dips into Art Writing definitions and comes up with her own ideas
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
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
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
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.
Roderick Buchanan and Thomas Muir
Duncan McLaren on a contemporary artist’s veneration for a victim of the Enlightenment
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
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 …
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
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’
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
Sterling Ruby
9 October–15 November, 2008, Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, London
Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth
Elizabeth Grosz, £13, ISBN: 978-0-231-14518-3, www.cup.columbia.edu
The Enlightenments
Various dates, August–October, 2009, Various venues, Edinburgh
The International Necronautical Society (INS) 17 January
17 January, Tate Britain, London
Graham Little
21 November–19 December, Alison Jacques Gallery, London
Charlie Hammond
6 November–20 December, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles
Books: Utopia Deferred: Writings from Utopie ( 1967-1978)
Jean Baudrillard www.semiotexte.com ISBN 978-1-58435-033-0 £11.95
Books: Kara Walker: My Compliment, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love
Edited by Michelle Piranio www.Hatjecantze.com ISBN 978-3-7757-1932-239
Matthew Barney / Joseph Beuys
28 October 2006–12 January 2007, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
Christine Borland
2 December 2006–28 January 2007, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Charles Avery, Charles Avery/ Keith Wilson
9 Ocotber–3 December 2006, Cubitt, London / 2 November–16 December 2006, Alexandre Pollazzon Ltd, London